payments Pricing

ROI Estimation

Simple cold-chain pricing: $100.00/month base + $8.00/month per monitored unit - unlimited users, alerts, reports and API included. Slide in your own numbers and see the ROI for yourself.

CropWatch Pricing & savings estimate (preliminary)

Cold-Chain / 20 units × 1 location

Your inputs

Sector	Cold-Chain	Monitored units per location	20
Locations	1	Total monitored units	20
Temperature checks per day	2×	Time per reading	3 min
Hourly wage	$11.51/hr	Printed
Gateway	Kona Micro IoT Gateway	Gateway cost	$499 × 1

Locations 1

Sites, stores, plants or farms. Everything inside applies to each location.

Monitored units per location 20

Coolers, freezers and display cases.

Temperature checks per day 2×

How often someone currently walks the log route. Health codes typically require at least two.

Time per reading 3 min

Be honest here: include the walk or travel time to reach each unit, reading it, and the time to log the number into your system - not just glancing at a display.

Gateway $499

Kona Enterprise IoT Gateway (Outdoor Recommended) Carrier-grade gateway with cellular modem - the pick for large sites, dense sensor fleets and the widest coverage. $1,500 Kona Micro IoT Gateway (Indoor Recommended) Compact indoor gateway with cellular backhaul and built-in battery backup - keeps recording through power outages. $499 UG65-L04EU-915M-EA (Outdoor & Indoor) Milesight indoor gateway (915 MHz) with Ethernet, Wi-Fi or LTE backhaul - the budget pick for sites with reliable power. $400 Use Your Own Gateway Use your existing gateway - no additional cost. $0

Each location needs one gateway - it receives the sensor radio signals and uploads them to the cloud. We do support your gateways from any vendor if you already have one. If so, mention this when you contact us.

Hourly wage $11.51/hr

Defaults to the average US state minimum wage ($11.51/hr). Use your real loaded labor rate for a truer number.

Assumes checks happen 365 days a year. CropWatch records automatically every 10 minutes - the numbers below only count the manual walk it replaces.

Manual logging labor (730 hours/yr) $8,402/yr

CropWatch ($260.00/mo · 20 devices) $3,120/yr

Hardware (20 sensors × $205 + 1 gateway × $499) $4,599 one-time

Your estimated savings $5,282/yr $440 back every month - and 14,600 checks a year logged without anyone lifting a pen.

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Estimate only - excludes spoilage prevented, energy saved and failed-audit risk, which are usually the bigger numbers. We'll walk through those on a demo.

show_chart When does it pay for itself?

Cumulative CropWatch cost - estimated one-time hardware of $4,599 plus the monthly subscription - versus the cumulative labor cost of manual logging.

Manual logging labor (cumulative) CropWatch (hardware + monthly)

At $440/mo in labor savings, the upfront hardware pays for itself in about 11 months. Hardware estimated at $205/sensor plus $499/location for the Kona Micro IoT Gateway - your exact quote may differ.

See the numbers as a table

Time	Manual logging	CropWatch	Difference
Start	$0	$4,599	-$4,599
1 yr	$8,402	$7,719	$683
2 yr	$16,805	$10,839	$5,966
3 yr	$25,207	$13,959	$11,248

Total savings after 3 years $11,248 ^*Includes the $4,599 one-time hardware cost at the start.

★ All figures in this document are rough, preliminary estimates - not a formal quote. Final pricing follows a review of your configuration and site conditions.