Efento
Battery-powered wireless sensors with cloud monitoring for food storage
Efento designs wireless temperature, humidity and other sensors that transmit over Bluetooth or NB-IoT cellular networks to its cloud platform and mobile apps, with alerts and reports for cold-chain and food-storage compliance. Sensors run up to ten years on batteries and are used by food storage, healthcare and pharmacy customers across Europe.
Our reading. Best for food retailers and pharmacies that need gateway-free temperature monitoring across many locations and buy through an IoT distributor.
Strengths
- NB-IoT sensors need no local gateway or Wi-Fi
- Up to ten-year battery life
- Over 20 sensor types
Limits
- Sold through distributors, pricing not public
- Cloud features less tailored to restaurants than dedicated HACCP tools
Small Polish IoT specialist with a distinctive NB-IoT/Bluetooth sensor range sold through distributors in 25 countries
Receives about one million measurements per day; NB-IoT coverage in 18 European countries