Horticulture
Tomatoes, peppers, leafy vegetables and other high-value perishables.
MulticomIoT · IoT · AI · GIS
Smart Food Resilience
& Cold Chain Network
From Farm to Market. A More Resilient Food Future.
Connecting farms, cold-chain infrastructure, logistics and markets, so less food is lost between the people who grow it and the people who need it.
Cold Chain Monitor
SIMULATED
Hub 02 · Bono · demonstration feed
Temperature
2.5°C
Humidity
68%
Door
Secure
Capacity
74%
All systems normalTelemetry within range.
Simulated feed, not a live installation
The challenge
Food should feed people, not become loss.
Produce rarely fails at one point. It fails along a chain where no single operator sees the whole picture, and where a problem found late is a problem that has already cost someone a harvest.
Harvest timed without data
Fragmented first-mile collection
Limited reliable cooling
No view of free capacity
Energy constraints
Failures found after the loss
No handling record
Producers and buyers disconnected
The solution
One intelligent network. From farm to market.
Five connected stages, each instrumented, each feeding the same intelligence layer. Choose a stage to see what it measures.
GIS food intelligence
Intelligence starts with location.
Where produce is concentrated, where cooling exists, where it does not, and how far apart the two sit. These are geographic questions before they are technology questions. Getting them wrong puts a cold room where nothing needs cooling.
Production cluster
Smart cold hub
Market or processor
Logistics route
Illustrative geometry, not a deployment map
Where should cold infrastructure actually be placed?
Where is produce genuinely concentrated?
Where are losses most likely happening?
Where is cooling capacity sitting unused?
Which market is best placed to receive it?
Monitoring and intelligence
From monitoring to prediction.
A dashboard tells you what happened. The value is in what happens next, and in getting it to someone early enough to act.
Monitor
Temperature, humidity, energy, solar and battery, door events, equipment condition, location.
Analyse
Production clusters, capacity maps, temperature excursions, shelf-life risk, utilisation, route and demand patterns.
Predict
Spoilage risk, capacity forecasts, maintenance signatures, harvest weighed against available cooling.
Act
Alerts to the person who can do something, in time for it to matter.
Spoilage risk
Batch has elevated deterioration risk.
Capacity forecast
Cold hub expected to reach high utilisation tomorrow.
Maintenance
Compressor energy behaviour indicates potential maintenance requirement.
Harvest
Expected harvest volume exceeds nearby cooling capacity.
Logistics
Temperature excursion detected during transit.
Market
Available produce identified within target sourcing radius.
Existing capability
This part is not a proposal.
MulticomIoT sensors, gateways, solar infrastructure and cameras are installed and reporting in Ghana today, including smart poultry production monitoring. The cold-chain network extends this work. It does not start from nothing.
Sector applications
A multi-commodity platform, not a single crop.
The same network serves different perishables. Priority follows shelf life, temperature sensitivity and how many producers it reaches.
Fish & seafood
Temperature-controlled handling from landing point to market.
Poultry
Smart production, processing, cold storage and distribution, connected.
Dairy
Temperature-sensitive collection and distribution.
Fruits & vegetables
Improved shelf life and better market access.
Ghana → Africa
Built from Ghana. Designed for Africa.
Ghana provides the environment to demonstrate, validate and refine the network before structured replication across African markets.
Demonstrate
Build and operate in real conditions, at real sites, with real produce.
Validate
Independent measurement of what changed, not a count of what was installed.
Refine
Fix what the evidence says is wrong, before it is repeated anywhere else.
Replicate
A playbook other markets can run, with partners who own their own deployments.
Partnership
Building the network together.
No single organisation builds a food system. MulticomIoT's role is specific and deliberately bounded: the digital intelligence and IoT integration layer. Refrigeration, energy, logistics and market infrastructure come from partners who do those things properly.
GovernmentDevelopment partners
Farmers & cooperativesResearch institutions
Cold-chain providersRenewable energy
Logistics operatorsProcessors
Retailers & exportersFinancial institutions
What would be measured
Food loss
Loss avoided, shelf-life extension.
Farmer economics
Price realisation, rejected produce avoided.
Cold-chain integrity
Excursions, time in range.
Energy
Renewable share, energy per unit cooled.
Infrastructure
Hub utilisation, uptime, equipment reliability.
Market access
Buyer connections, time to sale.
People
Roles created, operators trained.
No performance figures appear on this page. Results will be stated only where they come from measured deployment data, with the method given alongside them.
Technology architecture
Physical
Sensors, cameras, cold rooms, vehicles, solar, farm devices.
Edge
IoT gateways, local processing, resilient connectivity.
Connectivity
Cellular, Wi-Fi, LPWAN and other approved networks.
Platform
Device management, telemetry, rules engine, alerts, GIS, APIs, identity and access.
Intelligence
Analytics, AI, forecasting, predictive maintenance, risk detection.
Applications
Operations dashboard, mobile app, farmer interface, partner portal, market interface.
Programme status
MulticomIoT operates remote monitoring and control across environment, energy, agriculture, water and remote sites in Ghana today, including smart poultry production monitoring. The Smart Food Resilience & Cold Chain Network described here is a proposed programme extending those capabilities into cold-chain and farm-to-market operations. All telemetry shown on this page is simulated for demonstration. Nothing here describes a deployment that does not exist, and no partnership, funding award or performance result is claimed.
Get involved
Let's build a more resilient food future.
MulticomIoT is building the digital intelligence required to connect producers, cooling infrastructure, logistics and markets into a smarter food ecosystem.