Distributed intelligence across the cold chain
Every product has a journey before reaching the consumer table. From farm to fork, the food cold chain keeps perishable goods under controlled conditions during storage, processing and distribution, helping preserve quality, freshness and commercial value.
As part of the Distributed intelligence theme, CAREL connects control, supervision and field data across cold storage warehouses, logistics centres, fruit ripening rooms, cheese seasoning facilities and meat processing plants, helping each part of the system contribute to continuity and performance.
Intelligent control from racks to evaporators
Considering the large quantities of valuable goods, distributed intelligence allows designing resilient architectures able to guarantee high reliability, avoiding interruptions that can affect product quality and generate significant losses.
CAREL provides specialised control solutions, ready to drive the main components of industrial and commercial refrigeration plants, from compressor racks to evaporators. pRack controllers support a wide range of configurations and refrigerants, including CO₂, with advanced algorithms designed to optimise efficiency and redundancy management.
At evaporator level, MPXPRO enables precise temperature regulation, electronic expansion valve modulation, optimised electric or hot gas defrost cycles and flexible auxiliary function management, with integrated connectivity for plant supervision.
To simplify installation and commissioning, CAREL can supply ready-to-install electrical panels embedding the control solution and pre-engineered for the application. This approach minimizes wiring operations, allowing contractors to deploy reliable solutions more quickly and consistently.
Application know-how in connected architectures
Distributed intelligence becomes valuable when application expertise is translated into adaptable control logic, mainly for food processing environments which require tailored strategies for the different products and processes. Flexible programmable platforms, customizable HMIs and ready-to-use software libraries are available to support system integrators and OEMs with the integration of tailored solutions thus to optimizing product quality, process repeatability and operational efficiency.
Plant management, supervision and preventive maintenance
Large cold chain facilities require continuous visibility to protect stored value, optimise energy consumption and respond quickly to anomalies. CAREL boss provides centralised supervision of refrigeration systems, environmental conditions and field devices through intuitive dashboards and remote connectivity.
Alarm management, energy monitoring, trend analysis and remote access help service teams perform diagnostics, reduce response times and support long-term reliability. In this connected ecosystem, intelligence is distributed across controllers, devices and supervision layers to keep the cold chain under control.
