Langdons have used a satellite tracking system linked with Seven TranScan temperature recorders for some years but were unhappy with their previous service and equipment providers. After evaluating several alternatives they recently chose to switch to Seven TranScan for the provision of live web based temperature monitoring and vehicle location using their COOL TRACK system.

Langdons are a leading provider of temperature controlled logistics running a complex dual temperature (frozen and chilled) shared-user distribution operation. Their key requirement was to reduce the costs of claims by means of immediate access to internal temperature records throughout their 200+ vehicle fleet. In addition of course they wanted to improve operational efficiencies by using the vehicle location reports.

SMEG UK, the supplier of high specification kitchen appliances has been pleasantly surprised at the level of return on investment following the fitment of 16 Asset Track real-time vehicle tracking systems from Seven Eye.

Allpress Farms Limited is family business specialising in the production of onions and leeks, based in Chatteris Cambridgeshire. The company, through a carefully selected programme of varieties to ensure a progression of maturity throughout the season, typically yields 5000 tonnes of produce from their 275 hectares of arable land.

Harvesting is carried out using the latest rig technology which, coupled with dedicated refrigerated storage, ensures that Allpress leeks are among the cleanest, freshest and highest quality available. First class retailers and major supermarkets stock Allpress leeks with total confidence.

However, despite rigorous quality procedures an unexpected power supply failure on their main coldstore in 2006 resulted in some product spoilage. Immediate remedial action ensured that the loss was minimised but the incident prompted an investigation into the implementation of a monitoring system that would help ensure that similar problems did not occur in the future.

Operations Manager Stuart Threadgill explains, "We pride ourselves on the quality of our products and have always included regular operational checks throughout our production process. But the minor problem we experienced last year made us aware of our vulnerability to failures in the cold storage area, particularly when such problems occur out of normal working hours. Loss or spoilage of product, although rare, will always have an impact on our business and could affect future supply contracts. The total cost to us, therefore, might be many times that of the product lost.

Allpress utilise a refrigerated complex comprising 3 separate areas which totals 7200 cubic metres of storage capacity. The management team decided that the monitoring of all 3 stores from a single location together with the identification of door operation and fridge power failure detection were all essential requirements for any monitoring system that they would install.

La Maison des Sorbets produces high quality ice cream, sorbets and specialty hand-made deserts all from fresh, natural ingredients and in a wide range of flavours.  Based in North London, they have become a firm favourite in many of the city`s high class hotels and restaurants and business continues to expand throughout the UK via a network of regional wholesalers and distributors

La Maison have therefore purchased Asset Track from Seven Eye in order to provide live, 24/7 web-based location tracking for all of their delivery vehicles.  This system also has the ability to connect to the existing on-board TranScan 2 temperature recorder to remotely monitor the air temperature in the refrigerated compartment and provide alarm alerts back to base when this temperature varies outside predetermined settings.  The Seven Eye web site is extremely easy to use and provides La Maison with instant access to the pin-point location of each vehicle in the fleet plus simultaneous display of the compartment temperature in either a graphical or numeric list format.  Clear indications of the route and timings taken by the vehicles are displayed together with temperature history and events such as door openings.

Seven Asset Management will be offering free installation and ongoing data access to the core* Seven Eye vehicle satellite tracking system for all new contract vehicle hire orders taken by Seven Asset Management from enquiries made at the 2007 CV show (stand 4501).