Setpointby Datum Labs

Cold-storage ROI

What does one overnight walk-in failure cost you?

A compressor that dies at 2 a.m. isn't found until the morning open — and the load is already gone. Set your kitchen's numbers below and see what that risk is worth per year, and how fast monitoring pays for itself.

Your kitchen

3
Walk-in cooler, walk-in freezer, reach-ins, prep line — one probe each.
$3,000
A stocked walk-in commonly holds $2,000–$10,000 of food.
1.0 / yr
Compressor faults, iced coils, a door left ajar, a tripped breaker — per year.
70%
An early alert rarely saves 100% — but it saves most of it.
$69
Your one-time price per probe. $39 for the DIY kit you assemble yourself; around $69 for an assembled unit once those ship. The hub software is free forever — no subscription.

What it's worth

Preventable loss you're exposed to
$2,100
per year, at these numbers
Setpoint — one-time
$267
3 probes × $69 · free hub software
Pays for itself in
1.5 months
then it protects that load every year after, for free

One prevented failure ≈ $2,100. Setpoint is $267 once — so the first cooler it saves more than pays for the whole system.

How it's figured: preventable loss/yr = failures/yr × product value × share saved. Payback = one-time cost ÷ (preventable loss ÷ 12).

An estimate to help you decide — not a guarantee. Setpoint is a loss-prevention and logging aid, not a certified/HACCP instrument; it depends on power and your network, and monitoring stops in a full outage. Your results depend on your own kitchen.