Sensor Insights
Gain operational visibility and move from reactive maintenance to proactive oversight without ever touching your corporate network.
What it is
Sensor Insights is a turnkey, remote monitoring solution designed to replace operational blind spots with real-time visibility across your inventory, equipment and spaces.
Benefits
Features
Broad application
Eliminate tool sprawl with cross-functional sensors that monitor inventory, equipment and facilities from a single hub.
Secure connectivity
Operates on the secure Verizon 5G/LTE network using dedicated cellular backhaul, isolated and independent of corporate infrastructure.
Rapid setup
Plug in the preconfigured gateway, onboard sensors through a QR code scan and start receiving real-time data in the secure portal within minutes.
Unified access
A cloud-based dashboard accessible from any mobile device, tablet, or desktop browser.
Discover solutions that suit your needs
Simplify operations across a wide range of industries and use cases and get more out of the systems you already use.
Food and beverage
Protect your inventory and your reputation. Monitor refrigeration and freezer temperatures 24/7 to prevent spoilage, ensure food safety, and comply with health regulations. Get alerts if a unit's temperature goes out of range, and prevent product loss.
Real estate and facilities management
Use sensors to detect water leaks in restrooms, monitor HVAC performance to optimize energy use, and track access to sensitive areas to enhance building security and reduce operating costs.
IT and technology
Safeguard your critical infrastructure. Place sensors in server rooms and data closets to monitor temperature and humidity, preventing heat-related damage to expensive equipment. Receive alerts for power outages or unauthorized entry.
Retail
Monitor the temperature of refrigerators in a pharmacy to protect sensitive medications or track the location of high-value inventory on the sales floor to prevent loss. Ensure a comfortable shopping environment by monitoring air quality and temperature.
Venues and stadiums
From monitoring large-scale refrigeration units for concessions to tracking the location of maintenance equipment, Sensor Insights helps ensure your venue runs smoothly. Keep an eye on climate-controlled suites and get alerts for any issues that could impact the fan experience.
Agriculture and horticulture
Optimize your operations from field to storage. Monitor soil moisture levels, track the temperature in greenhouses, and ensure storage facilities maintain perfect conditions for your crops, reducing waste and maximizing yield.
Hospitality
Enhance the guest experience and protect your property. Get alerts for water leaks in guest rooms, monitor temperatures in pools and spas, and ensure kitchen refrigeration is functioning properly to deliver five-star service without interruption.
Healthcare
Ensure compliance and patient safety by monitoring critical assets. Track the temperature of medical refrigerators storing vaccines and samples, monitor humidity in operating rooms, and track the location of essential mobile equipment like IV pumps and wheelchairs.
Manufacturing
Keep your production line moving. Monitor the temperature and vibration of key machinery to predict maintenance needs, track the location of tools and unfinished goods on the factory floor, and ensure environmental conditions are optimal for quality control.
Refrigeration monitoring
Temperature and door monitoring sensors guard against product loss, regulatory non-compliance, and inefficient manual labor.
Water leak detection
Leak detectors guard against unplanned downtime, structural damage, and help contain increased operational costs.
Environmental monitoring
Temperature, humidity, air quality, and CO2 monitors help maintain workplace safety, ensure regulatory compliance, and optimize building health.
Power monitoring
Power and current monitors help track power usage and equipment health and utilization.
Underground infrastructure monitoring
Manhole and vault sensors improve visibility into subterranean environments to improve security, safety, and operational continuity.
Occupancy monitoring
Utilize anonymous traffic insights that can help optimize spaces, labor efficiency, safety compliance, and customer experience
Logistics and cold chain
Stream temperature/humidity data to verify the integrity of perishable goods during transit and storage for compliance mandates.
- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
- Transportation Management Systems (TMS)
- Supply Chain Management (SCM) suites
Healthcare and life sciences
Feed freezer monitoring data directly into research protocols to ensure human tissue samples or vaccine markers remain within safe parameters.
- Electronic Health Records (EHR)
- Laboratory Information Mgmt Systems (LIMS)
- Compliance Management software
Manufacturing and industrial
Feed vibration and temperature data into CMMS to trigger work orders for predictive maintenance before equipment fails.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)
- Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
Retail and food service
Monitor refrigeration health across hundreds of sites in a single dashboard to reduce shrinkage and spoilage.
- Inventory Management Systems
- Point of Sale (POS)
- Fleet/Logistics tracking
Facility and property management
Ingest data for real-time metering and accurate tenant billing for environments like nursing homes or shopping malls.
- Integrated Workplace Management Systems (IWMS)
- Building Automation Systems (BAS)
- Energy Management Systems (EMS)
Customer success stories
ISeeChange
ISeeChange drives resilience response with people-powered Verizon Sensor Insights
Atlanta Hawks
Verizon Business launches turnkey IoT solution with Atlanta Hawks as first customer.
Climit
Climit lays the groundwork for construction industry innovation with Verizon Sensor Insights.
Why choose us
Partner with a recognized leader to protect your investment for the long haul.
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Resources
What are the types of IoT sensors?
Discover the most common types of IoT sensors—including temperature, pressure, and proximity sensors—and learn how they connect businesses to critical data.
Understanding IoT solutions for a secure, connected future
From expanding global footprints to navigating device security, explore the critical infrastructure, trends, and strategy framework driving enterprise Industry 4.0 deployment.
FAQs
The system uses local battery-powered sensors that communicate with a nearby gateway using secure, low-latency radio bands. The gateway then routes this structured data directly over the Verizon 5G/LTE network, keeping your main network secure and free from additional traffic.
IoT sensors and devices are specialized physical hardware components designed to capture operational, environmental, or positional data from their surroundings and transmit it over a network. Unlike traditional hardware, these IoT smart sensors connect to wireless networks to pass telemetry strings continuously without manual human intervention, serving as the foundational endpoint layer for any comprehensive infrastructure management solution.
Modern enterprises deploy industrial IoT sensors across a diverse matrix of operational challenges to drive efficiency, maximize asset uptime, and automate compliance reporting.
- Manufacturing Floor Optimization: Monitoring machine vibrations and operational metrics to predict mechanical failure before downtime occurs.
- Cold Chain Logistics: Leveraging a specialized temperature tracking sensor array to maintain strict thermal bounds for pharmaceuticals or perishables.
- Smart Facility Maintenance: Utilizing smart building IoT sensors to analyze environmental shifts and automate energy utilization patterns
A temperature tracking sensor operates as an automated compliance and quality safeguard across modern supply chains. By establishing continuous multi-sensor data tracking, these devices record environmental conditions inside storage units and shipping containers every minute of transit.
If conditions drift outside safe parameters, the system triggers real-time alerts over the cellular network, allowing logistics teams to reroute shipments or address cooling errors before high-value products are compromised.
Implementing a formal IoT asset management strategy shifts corporate operations from reactive maintenance models to proactive, data-driven optimization strategies.
Instead of tracking equipment location and health across disparate, siloed systems, a unified remote asset monitoring solution combines geographic location, performance data, and environmental analytics into a single dashboard. This complete visibility extends equipment lifespans, minimizes asset loss, and improves capital efficiency across the organization.