Use Case · Cold chain monitoring
Protect temperature-sensitive
shipments with real-time
cold chain monitoring.
Monitor temperature, humidity, light, and location on a single platform: from ambient to cryogenic. Detect excursions in real time, respond before product is lost, and maintain a complete record of every shipment.
−200°C to 60°C with probes
95% coverage · 400+ networks
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Trusted across food, perishable and life sciences supply chains
$35B
is lost across the biopharma industry every year to temperature-controlled logistics failures.
Source: Tive Real-Time Trackers Specs
~12%
of the world's food—roughly 526 million tons a year—is lost for lack of effective refrigeration.
−200°C to 60°C
Every temperature profile—from ambient to dry ice and cryogenic—monitored on one platform.
Source: Tive Solo Pro with Probes
The Problem
Temperature-sensitive freight fails
in the gaps you can't see.
Temperature-sensitive shipments rarely fail at origin or destination. They fail in transit: during delays, handoffs, equipment issues, and unexpected disruptions. Without real-time visibility, those events often go unnoticed until product quality has already been compromised.
Excursions happen in transit
Equipment cycling, handoffs between modes, and unplanned delays expose shipments to heat or cold at exactly the points no one is watching.
You find out too late
With after-the-fact loggers, an excursion only surfaces when the shipment is opened—when the product is already spoiled, rejected, or unfit for release.
Proof is hard to assemble
Fragmented data across loggers and spreadsheets makes audits, claims, and product release slow, and leaves disputes hard to settle.
How Tive Helps
“Monitor on every condition. Catch every excursion. Protect every shipment.
Tive combines real-time, multi-sensor tracking, automated temperature alerts, and a complete audit trail so teams can keep temperature-sensitive freight in range and document that it stayed there, from origin to destination.
01 — MONITOR EVERY CONDITION, EVERY MODE
See shipment location and conditions at a glance.
Tive continuously monitors temperature, humidity, light, shock, and location across road, ocean, air, and rail, giving teams visibility into what is happening now, not what happened after delivery.
Real-time temperature, humidity, light, and shock monitoring
Continuous visibility across road, ocean, air, and rail
Full range from ambient to dry ice and cryogenic, with probes
One platform for food, perishable, pharma, and life sciences
One tracker family for every cold chain
Real-time temperature, humidity, light and shock: from
everyday perishables to validated, calibrated pharma.
02 — CATCH EXCURSIONS THE MOMENT THEY HAPPEN
Missed temperature excursions become costly losses.
The difference between a saved load and a total loss is usually minutes. Tive raises an alert the instant a shipment drifts out of range, giving your team more time to investigate, and respond before product quality is compromised.
Instant alerts when conditions move out of range
Configurable thresholds for different products and temperature profiles
Share alerts with the teams responsible for taking action
Prevent load losses with automatic reefer monitoring
03 — PROVE THE COLD CHAIN HELD
Walk into any audit with the full record.
Every shipment generates a complete, time-stamped record of temperature, location, and condition data. The result is faster investigations, streamlined compliance processes, and greater confidence in product quality.
Complete, time-stamped digital audit trail per shipment
Supports FSMA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11
3-point NIST-traceable calibration
24/7 Live Monitoring extends your team around the clock
ISO 9001
SOC 2 Type 2
ISO/IEC 27001
GxP / GAMP 5
Built For Your Cold Chain
One Platform. Tailored to Your Supply Chain.
Whether you're shipping fresh produce or cell and gene therapies, the challenge is the same: maintain product quality and document that conditions remained within range throughout transit.
Food and Beverage
Protect perishable shipments end to end: to reduce spoilage and truck claims, hold freshness, and meet food-safety requirements across global lanes.
Start with the Tive Solo Lite for real-time temperature monitoring or Tive Tag for low-cost logging.
Explore Food and Beverage →Pharma and Life Sciences
Deliver validated, real-time visibility for temperature-critical therapies: to minimize excursions, speed product release, and satisfy regulators.
Choose the Tive Solo 5G or Tive Solo Pro for validated, calibrated monitoring down to cryogenic and dry ice temperatures.
Explore Life Sciences →The Right Device for Your Temperature Profile.
From low-cost passive logging to validated, calibrated monitoring—pick by what you ship and how regulated it is.
PHARMA
Tive Solo Pro
Validated, calibrated monitoring with on-device Product Release Assist and flight-safe certification.
Range: -30°C to 60°C (+ dry ice/cryo probes)
Sensors: Temp, humidity, light, shock, tilt
Best for: Regulated cold chains
FOOD
PHARMA
Tive Solo 5G
Multi-sensor, non-lithium, real-time tracker for premium food and general pharma alike.
Range: -30°C to 60°C (+ dry ice/cryo probes)
Sensors: Temp, humidity, light, shock
Best for: High-value, multimodal
FOOD
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Tive Solo Lite
Real-time temperature and light visibility—the go-to for most food and beverage shipments.
Range: -20°C to 60°C
Sensors: Temperature, light
Best for: Everyday perishables
FOOD
Tive Tag
Paper-thin passive temperature logger—the most cost-effective way to keep an audit trail.
Range: -30°C to 50°C
Type: Temperature logger
Best for: High-volume, low-cost lanes
See It In Action
Real-time visibility helps teams protect product quality.
From fresh produce to the gift of life, teams rely on Tive to keep temperature-sensitive shipments in range from origin to destination.
CUSTOMER STORY · ALPINE FRESH
$210K
shipment saved
Alpine Fresh ships fresh produce from Latin America to U.S. consumers with Tive Solo 5G and Tive’s 24/7 Monitoring. The team identified and mitigated a temperature excursion on a $120,000 blueberry shipment bound for New Jersey, and saved a $90K asparagus load to Miami when a reefer was set to cycle rather than run continuously.
“With Tive, there is no guessing game as to whether there is an issue. This saves time and eliminates stress.”
Ellie Ivey · Director of Logistics, Alpine Fresh
CUSTOMER STORY · SOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE
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~115
organs recovered and tracked monthly
The Southwest Transplant Alliance recovers and allocates roughly 115 organs a month for transplantation—shipments where condition and timing are everything. STA relies on Tive Solo 5G for real-time location and condition visibility, including light exposure and temperature excursions, accurate to within 10 meters.
“By putting advanced technology into place, we maintain visualization of the lifesaving gifts we recover throughout every step of the process.”
Reid Freeman · Director of Clinical Excellence, STA
Just two examples of how Tive customers keep on track across road, ocean, air, and rail every day.
Read more stories today!
Questions
Cold chain monitoring, answered.
What is cold chain monitoring?
Cold chain monitoring is the continuous tracking of temperature—and often humidity, light, and location—for products that must stay within a defined range from origin to destination. Real-time monitoring goes a step further than a basic data logger: instead of revealing what went wrong after delivery, it streams condition data live and alerts your team the moment a shipment drifts out of range, so you can act while the product is still recoverable.
How does real-time cold chain monitoring prevent product loss?
Real-time monitoring gives teams the opportunity to act before an excursion becomes a product loss. When a shipment moves outside its acceptable temperature range, Tive immediately alerts the appropriate stakeholders so they can investigate and intervene while the shipment is still in transit.
What temperature ranges can Tive monitor?
Tive supports the full span of cold chain profiles, from ambient and chilled (such as the 2°C–8°C range common in pharma) down to frozen, dry ice, and cryogenic shipments as low as −200°C using threaded probes. One platform covers food, perishables, pharma, and life sciences without switching systems.
What is a mean kinetic temperature (MKT) alert?
Beyond simple threshold alerts, Tive offers advanced temperature alerts: single-excursion alerts fire when a reading leaves the accepted range; cumulative alerts track total time out of range across a trip; and mean kinetic temperature (MKT) alerts summarize the cumulative thermal effect on a product over time. Together they reflect how regulators and quality teams actually judge whether a temperature-sensitive product is still viable.
Does Tive support cold chain compliance?
Yes. Every reading is captured in a time-stamped digital record that supports food-safety programs such as FSMA, and pharmaceutical requirements including FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11. Tive's quality and security posture includes ISO 9001, SOC 2 Type 2, and ISO/IEC 27001, components are developed and tested following GxP/GAMP 5, and Solo 5G, Solo Lite, and Tive Solo Pro, trackers ship with a 3-point NIST-traceable certificate of calibration.
Which Tive tracker is right for food versus pharma?
It depends on what you ship, and how regulated it is. Many perishables teams start with the Solo Lite for real-time location, temperature, and light monitoring or use the Tive Tag for low-cost, passive temp logging. Pharma and life sciences shipments typically use the Solo 5G or Solo Pro, both of which have flight-safe certification, as well as dry ice and cryogenic probe support for validated, regulated cold chains. The Solo Pro adds on-screen Product Release Assist to accelerate releases.