RCI Brings Cold Chain Monitoring to Skip Express Lane, Healthy Planet
Saskatchewan-based tech startup Rivercity Innovations (RCI) announces that two major Canadian retailers have selected RCI’s IoT cold chain monitoring sensors and software for Canada-wide use. Skip Express Lane (a subsidiary of Skip the Dishes, acquired by Just Eat Takeaway) is a leading grocery delivery service company. The renowned Ontario-based healthy grocery retailer is Healthy Planet.
RCI will be delivering its IoT cold chain monitoring services to these organizations to reduce food waste and provide data about temperature management in their cold chain. The service includes monitoring not only the coolers and freezers in all their locations, but also monitoring Last Mile Delivery temperatures for Skip Express Lane.
RCI’s solution reduces food loss by alerting staff to temperature failures and through the Early Catastrophic Failure Detection feature. The Early Catastrophic Failure Detection feature predicts cooler failures due to mechanical issues, averting costly losses on entire cooling systems in their stores. RCI’s solution automatically digitizes food safety compliance data. Additional features include improved food quality due to temperature control monitoring, and reduced staff time spent collecting data on temperature manually.
Reducing food waste and optimizing cooler energy usage supports ESG Sustainability goals, which the United Nations documented under UN SDG-12 https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal12.
Jeff Shirley, CEO of RCI states “Working with Skip Express Lane and Healthy Planet’s teams has led to awareness about how we can bring not only reduced food waste to their organizations. These two amazing companies also focus on healthy choices for the environment and are aware of sustainability and the environmental impact of their businesses. Being able to bring value to them beyond the normal temperature and humidity data for cold chain which will lead to reducing their carbon footprint as a grocer, is an important part of our business thesis. Preventing food waste and the costs associated with that is of course a key value as well, with immediate financial benefit to our clients. I personally deployed their stores across Canada, met their amazing teams, and know we are preventing food waste that their conventional systems were not catching. Preventing food waste brings value to their operations and their clients.”
Rivercity Innovations delivers IoT solutions for cold chain monitoring of businesses including grocery, pharmacy, and restaurants. Our deployments include options for last mile delivery and GPS tracking with temperature. Rivercity manufactures the TxH sensor and proprietary cold chain monitoring solution.
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Jeff Shirley
Founder and CEO, Rivercity Innovations
Phone: 306-380-6330 | Email: [email protected]
Learn More About Rivercity Innovations
Rivercity Innovations builds world-class sensors for IoT solutions, including GPS, temperature, moisture, humidity, and other data. RCI is backed by investments from Conexus Venture Capital Inc. with support from Golden Opportunities Fund, Tribune Capital, and Startup TNT. It is known for its unique LoRa IoT solutions for industries requiring telemetry data.
RCI deploys cold chain monitoring solutions to grocers, restaurants, and pharmacies across North America and Europe for cold storage alerts and reporting compliance for those businesses. To learn more about Rivercity Innovations, visit www.rivercityinnovations.ca
Learn More About Skip Express Lane
Skip Express Lane is a grocery delivery business with multiple locations across Canada. Skip Express Lane is owned by Skip The Dishes, recently acquired by Just Eat Takeaway. Skip Express Lane offers groceries, household goods, and unique delivery options including Walmart-Now, Lego Store, Haagen-Dazs, and Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. To learn more about Skip Express Lane, visit https://www.skipthedishes.com/skip-express-lane
Learn More About Healthy Planet
Healthy Planet is a major grocery retailer with over 40 locations, headquartered in Ontario. Healthy Planet offers a complete range of healthy lifestyle groceries and foods, supplements, and probiotics. To learn more about Healthy Planet, visit https://www.healthyplanetcanada.com.
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