Nobody manages your energy.
Your compressors don't care.
A cold storage facility spends $30,000–80,000 a month on electricity. Refrigeration is 70% of it. But there is no energy function. The facility director manages operations. The maintenance team keeps compressors running. The finance team sees the bill. Nobody is making intelligent decisions about when compressors run, how they restart, or whether the defrost schedule still makes sense. So the compressors run on timers. They all defrost at the same time. They all restart at the same time. And the demand spike from that synchronized restart sets the demand charge for the entire month.
Model your facility economicsThe most expensive 15 minutes of the month.
And nobody even knows they're happening.
After a defrost cycle completes, every compressor in the facility restarts simultaneously. Full inrush current, all circuits, same 3-minute window. The resulting demand spike is 40–60% above normal operating load. Your demand charge for the entire month is set by that single 15-minute peak. It happens every day. Nobody sees it. The bill just... arrives.
Temperature excursions are the other invisible cost. A failing compressor or an open dock door pushes zone temperatures out of spec within hours. If the excursion goes undetected — and it often does, because compliance is a clipboard behind the dock — the product loss runs into hundreds of thousands. Pharmaceuticals, frozen proteins, produce. One excursion, one night, one missed reading.
For 3PL operators managing product for multiple customers, every breach is a contract at risk. Customer A requires −22°C ± 2°C. Customer B requires −18°C ± 1°C. The SLA monitoring is manual. The reporting is quarterly. The risk is daily.
Demand charges alone cost $50,000–120,000 per year per facility. Add one undetected excursion and the cost of having no energy intelligence is catastrophic.
70%
Refrigeration share of total load
Compressors dominate — and nobody is coordinating them
40–60%
Demand spike on synchronized restart
All compressors pulling inrush current in the same 3-minute window
$50–120K/yr
Demand charges per facility
Set by 15 bad minutes. Every month. Nobody watching.
$M+
Product at risk per excursion
Pharmaceuticals, proteins, produce — one missed reading
Your energy follows your cold chain.
Your energy system doesn't know that.
A cold storage facility's energy signature tells the story of its operations. The morning spike is dock doors opening for the first delivery. The midday plateau is steady-state refrigeration across all zones. The periodic dips and surges are defrost cycles. The evening ramp is the blast freezer running for the last inbound shipment.
The energy pattern mirrors the operation perfectly. But the energy system — the compressor timers, the defrost schedules, the demand limit — has no idea what the operation is doing. It doesn't know the afternoon delivery was canceled, so the dock doesn't need pre-cooling. It doesn't know the blast freezer finished early, so the compressors could stagger differently. It runs on clocks, not intelligence.
Wattif connects the two. It reads the energy signature. It understands the operational context — delivery schedules, dock activity, product mix by zone, defrost timing. It makes energy decisions that follow what the facility is actually doing.
Compressor Circuits / Real-Time
Zone Temperatures
Stagger the restarts. Pre-cool before defrost.
Predict the failures.
Compressor coordination
When defrost ends, cascades restarts over a staggered window. Demand spike drops 25–40%. The demand charge for the month drops with it.
Thermal intelligence
Pre-cools zone before defrost. Uses thermal mass. Shifts load to off-peak TOU windows. A well-insulated freezer at −22°C can coast for hours.
Predictive maintenance
Builds current-draw baseline per compressor. Detects drift weeks before failure. Planned service call instead of emergency callout at 2am.
Continuous compliance
Every zone temperature logged automatically. HACCP compliance as a side effect. 3PL SLA tracking per customer, per zone, always audit-ready.
$100–200K per facility per year.
Measurable in month one.
The math is straightforward. Stagger the restarts and cut the demand spike — that's the demand charge reduction. Shift compressor load to off-peak TOU windows — that's energy cost savings. Detect compressor degradation before failure — that's avoided emergency maintenance. Monitor every zone temperature continuously — that's avoided product loss and compliance automation. Add it up. Per facility, per year.
$100–200K/yr
Savings per facility
Demand charges + energy shifting + avoided emergencies
25–40%
Demand charge reduction
Staggered restarts eliminate synchronized spikes
0
Temperature excursions
Continuous monitoring, immediate alerts, always audit-ready
Weeks
Compressor failure early warning
Baseline drift detection catches degradation before breakdown
One day per facility.
No shutdown. No product risk.
CT clamps on each compressor circuit. Wireless temperature sensors in every zone — rated for −40°C. Non-invasive. No wiring, no penetrations, no interruption. Two-person team, one day. First demand charge reduction visible on next bill.
One facility saves $200K.
Your portfolio changes economics.
Configure one facility. Validate. Roll out with the same kit and process. The second facility takes half a day. Cross-facility intelligence compounds — baselines sharpen, anomaly detection gets smarter, and your operations team sees every zone, every compressor, every facility on one screen.
At 10 facilities, the platform is an energy operating system for the entire cold chain. The same stagger logic, the same compliance automation, the same predictive maintenance — tuned per facility, managed centrally, compounding value across the portfolio.
Cold Chain Operator
12 facilities, 180,000 pallet positions
“Our compressors were all restarting within the same 3-minute window after every defrost. Staggering them cut our demand peak by 35%. That's $14,000 a month we were paying for 3 minutes of bad coordination.”
— Facility Director, Cold Chain Operator (12 facilities, 180,000 pallet positions)
Show us one facility. We'll model the portfolio.
Compressor count, zone layout, tariff structure. We'll model the demand charge savings, the compliance automation, and the predictive maintenance value.