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Auckland is home to 55 percent of New Zealand’s food outlets and the Council has responsibility for ensuring their compliance with the Food Management Act.

This includes making sure that food outlets are checking the temperature of their refrigerators to make sure they are within the required limits.

With the help of Hitachi the council has developed a system that uses sensors in the fridges communicating to Hitachi’s cloud based Lumada analytics platform.

Auckland Council’s ICT manager, Mark Denvir, told Computerworld NZ that the previous system had been to manually check that food outlets were keeping logs showing that there were monitoring refrigerator temperatures with the required frequency. Often that was with pen and paper. If we are lucky, an Excel spreadsheet,” he said.

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