24/7 staffed refrigeration alarm monitoring for grocers

Walk-in cooler and freezer monitoring for grocery stores.

A grocery walk-in holds more product than any case on the floor, and it fails with the door closed and nobody watching. Kalder monitors every walk-in cooler and freezer in your stores, and our staffed alarm desk calls your team and your contractor the moment one needs attention.

Walk-ins fail out of sight.

Customers notice a warm display case. Nobody notices a warm walk-in until someone opens the door, often hours later. By then a freezer full of meat or a cooler full of dairy may already be lost. The usual causes build slowly: a door left ajar, an iced-up evaporator, a defrost that is not terminating, a failing fan or a refrigeration problem upstream.

What Kalder watches.

  • Walk-in cooler and freezer temperatures around the clock
  • High and low temperature alarms, answered by a person at our alarm desk
  • Temperature trends that point to icing, defrost or door problems before they become an alarm
  • Alarms that keep repeating on the same walk-in, and the cause behind them
  • Controller connectivity, so a walk-in that stops reporting is not mistaken for a quiet one
  • Temperature history for every walk-in in one place

What happens when one fails.

When a walk-in crosses its critical limit, our alarm desk calls your escalation list in order until someone answers, so staff can move product while it is still safe. If the problem needs a technician, we get your refrigeration contractor moving at the same time. Your contractor can check the controller remotely through Remote Connect before driving in.

On the equipment you already have.

Walk-ins on your rack controllers and on their own condensing units are both covered. We confirm what connects at each store before you commit.

Common questions

Does Kalder monitor walk-in coolers and freezers?

Yes. Kalder monitors walk-in coolers and freezers in grocery stores around the clock, with a staffed alarm desk that calls your team and contractor when one fails.

Who gets called when a walk-in freezer alarms at night?

A person at the Kalder alarm desk calls the escalation list you agree with us, in order, until someone answers, and calls your refrigeration contractor when the problem needs a technician.

Can Kalder find walk-in problems before an alarm?

KalderIQ trends walk-in temperatures and alarm history, so patterns such as repeat alarms, icing or defrost problems can be investigated before they cause a failure.

Do we need to replace our walk-in controls?

No. Kalder connects to the controllers and devices already in your stores. We confirm each store before quoting.

See your stores the way our alarm desk does.

A 30-minute walkthrough with someone who knows refrigeration. Bring your store list and controller types; we’ll tell you what connects and where we’d start.