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.

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−200°C to 60°C with probes

95% coverage · 400+ networks

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Trusted across food, perishable and life sciences supply chains

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$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.

Source: FAO / UNEP, Sustainable Food Cold Chains (2022)

−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 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

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Tive Solo 5G
Tive Solo Pro
Tive Solo Lite

One tracker family for every cold chain

Real-time temperature, humidity, light and shock: from
everyday perishables to validated, calibrated pharma.

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Smart Reefer Cycle Detection Alerts

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.

Produce

Seafood

Meat

Floral

Dairy

Frozen

Beverage

Start with the Tive Solo Lite for real-time temperature monitoring or Tive Tag for low-cost logging.

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Pharma and Life Sciences

Deliver validated, real-time visibility for temperature-critical therapies: to minimize excursions, speed product release, and satisfy regulators.

Biologics

Vaccines

Cell and Gene

Clinical Trials

Specialty

Choose the Tive Solo 5G or Tive Solo Pro for validated, calibrated monitoring down to cryogenic and dry ice temperatures.

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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

solo 5g trackers

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

solo lite trackers

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

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

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CUSTOMER STORY · SOUTHWEST TRANSPLANT ALLIANCE

~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

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Just two examples of how Tive customers keep on track across road, ocean, air, and rail every day.
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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 Tive 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 Tive Solo 5G or Tive Solo Pro, both of which have flight-safe certification, as well as dry ice and cryogenic probe support for validated, regulated cold chains. The Tive Solo Pro adds on-screen Product Release Assist to accelerate releases.

Are Tive trackers approved by Retail, Foodservice, and QSR customers?

Yes. Tive trackers are approved for use across a range of Retail, Foodservice and QSR (Quick-Service Restaurant) programs. Because requirements vary by customer and program, contact Sales and we'll walk you through the specific approvals that apply to your shipments.

Reduce cold chain risk with real-time monitoring.

Because every shipment matters.

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