Centralized energy management, performance issue, maintenance flagging, etc. There’s a lot of useful reasons for a big bank of commercial refrigeration to have a variety of remote monitoring and controls.
is there a reason they can’t have this on an airgapped network per-location? i guess it might be nice to have it connect to a central office, but is it a huge issue to have one employee call in the occasional management stuff over the phone? does corporate really need the ability to change the temperature of every fridge on every site? wouldn’t you generally want the on-location employees to change out the product first? or am i talking out my ass about all of this?
Why do refrigerators need to be hooked up to WiFi?
so they can infect the raw milk with 5G coronavirus radio waves
Centralized energy management, performance issue, maintenance flagging, etc. There’s a lot of useful reasons for a big bank of commercial refrigeration to have a variety of remote monitoring and controls.
Damn. Get out of here with your reasonable comment. I want to be old cranky and made (kidding)
is there a reason they can’t have this on an airgapped network per-location? i guess it might be nice to have it connect to a central office, but is it a huge issue to have one employee call in the occasional management stuff over the phone? does corporate really need the ability to change the temperature of every fridge on every site? wouldn’t you generally want the on-location employees to change out the product first? or am i talking out my ass about all of this?
They’re not going to have a datacenter on each store.
a single pc from 2009 could manage a lot of refrigerators and freezers unless they need way more stuff than i can imagine
Dynamic pricing.
Have you ever considered that food logistics companies really want data about what’s in your fridge really bad? How heartless to deny them
Insurance fraud