Your refrigerator will fail on a night when nobody is there.

National Cold Vault is a cellular monitor for medication refrigerators and freezers. It runs on its own LTE connection and its own battery, and it calls your phone when the temperature leaves range, the power fails, or the probe is unplugged. Hardware, data, alerts, software, and annual calibration are all included in one price.

From $399 a year per unit. $99 refundable deposit.

Monitor mounted on a medication refrigerator door, display showing an in-range temperatureDashboard showing a 16-day temperature trace and live readings

One price. Everything included.

  • The monitor, probe, glycol vial, and power adapter
  • Cellular data. No Wi-Fi, no gateway, no IT ticket
  • Phone call and text when a fridge leaves range, loses power, or the probe is unplugged. No per-alert fees
  • Dashboard and mobile app, unlimited users, one-click audit PDF
  • A new calibrated probe every year, with its own ISO/IEC 17025 certificate, mailed to you
  • Free replacement of any failed part or device during your term

One price per unit. Everything included.

Hardware, cellular, alerts, software, audit PDFs, annual calibrated probe, free replacement. No gateway, no per-alert fees.

  • 1 to 3

    $399 a year

    Term
    1 year
    About
    $1.09 a day
    3-year per unit
    Not applicable
  • 4 to 9

    $349 a year

    Term
    1 year
    About
    $0.96 a day
    3-year per unit
    Not applicable
  • 10 to 24

    $299 a year

    Term
    3 years
    About
    $0.82 a day
    3-year per unit
    $897
  • 25 and up

    $249 a year

    Term
    3 years
    About
    $0.68 a day
    3-year per unit
    $747
  • 100 and up

    Quote within 48 hours

    Term
    3 years
    About
    Not applicable
    3-year per unit
    Not applicable

Add a fourth unit and all four drop to $349.

  • $99 refundable deposit per unit, refundable until we ship. Year one balance due at activation, not before.
  • 1-year tiers: rate held 24 months, then any increase capped at 3% a year. 3-year tiers: rate fixed for the term, billed annually.
  • 30-day money-back after installation. Free replacement of any failed part or device during your term.
  • Deep-freeze probe (−90 °C) +$50 per unit per year.
  • Pay by card, debit, or ACH through Stripe, or by check. Organizations may pay by purchase order, net 30.

The fridge/freezer the state doesn't cover

If you're a VFC provider, Ohio gives you a logger for the state-supplied vaccine. It does not cover the refrigerator holding the inventory you bought — private-stock flu and Shingrix, GLP-1s, insulin, allergen extracts, compounded preparations. That's the fridge/freezer you'd replace out of pocket.

  • Continuous temperature monitoring
  • Tamper-evident log with device serial, timestamp and min/max, exportable as a PDF for Board of Pharmacy review
  • Phone call and SMS on excursion or power loss.
Probe on the middle shelf among water bottles

What happens at 2 a.m.

When a probe reads out of range — or the unit loses power — the system places a phone call. Not a push notification that sleeps with your phone. It calls, then texts.

Excursion: your phone rings within 6 minutes. Power loss: within 10. Dead device: within 20.

Phone on Do Not Disturb showing an incoming NCV ALERT call

Hardware and standards

Standard probe
−30 °C to +60 °C. Vaccine refrigerators, blood bank refrigerators, standard pharmacy freezers. PT1000 in a sealed glycol vial.
Deep-freeze probe
−90 °C to +200 °C. Plasma and tissue freezers. +$50 per unit per year.
Battery
Internal battery, over 72 hours measured. Mains with battery backup.
Connectivity
Cellular, 5-minute interval. FCC-certified LTE module, FCC ID XMR2023EG800QNA, PTCRB certified. No gateway, no Wi-Fi.
Power adapter
ETL Listed (Intertek), UL 1310 / CSA C22.2 No. 223.
Calibration
ISO/IEC 17025-accredited calibration certificate per unit (CNAS, ILAC MRA), traceable to national standards.
View technical dimensions
Monitor, probe, and power adapter on a white backgroundMonitor held in a hand to show its size

Mounting

Heavy-duty 3M flexible magnetic sheet mounted across the entire back plate.

  • Insured
  • SAM.gov registered
  • HealthTrust supplier #964950
  • ETL Listed adapter
  • ISO/IEC 17025 calibration
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Why I built National Cold Vault

Sean Lin, Founder