Accucold Vaccine Refrigerators Now Available With PharmaWatch Monitoring Pre-Installed

Accucold now offers PharmaWatch environmental monitoring as a factory-installed option on select vaccine and pharmaceutical refrigeration and freezer units. Choose it, and the unit arrives already monitoring temperature and generating documentation supporting compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 — no separate installation required.

What's New

Most facilities buying a new vaccine refrigerator still have to solve monitoring separately — source sensors, schedule an install, file an IT ticket, track down a calibration certificate before an inspector asks for it. Choose the PharmaWatch option on your Accucold order, and none of that applies. The sensor ships installed. The documentation trail starts on its own.

What Ships Inside Units With PharmaWatch Monitoring

• A PharmaWatch sensor, pre-installed and calibrated at the factory

• Cellular-only connectivity across Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile — no WiFi, no network credentials, no firewall changes

• Temperature data transmitted every 5 minutes to globally redundant cloud servers

• 5-day battery backup, so monitoring doesn't stop during a power outage

• NIST-traceable calibration, device-linked in the portal

• IQ/OQ/PQ (Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification, and Performance Qualification) validation included — not sold separately

What Day One Looks Like

For units ordered with monitoring included, plug it in and the sensor is already reporting. In most cases, documentation supporting FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliance is generating in the PharmaWatch portal within the first hour of power-on. For vaccine storage programs, that also means monitoring aligned with CDC and VFC cold chain requirements from the moment the compressor starts running.

Who It's Built For

Hospitals and pharmacies get multi-location visibility and documentation that supports credentialing bodies' requirements for temperature monitoring — no manual log required. Vaccine storage programs get a cold chain record that's already sitting there on delivery day. And a clinic running IT with two people, or none, gets monitoring that doesn't ask anything of them at all.

“PharmaWatch's work with vaccine storage and handling is innovative.” — CDC Public Health Advisor

Want to see it in action? Schedule a demo or call 1 (888) 234-5157

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