Streamlined Lab Freezer Maintenance, Powered by CORIS and MultiTech

How Tulane's National Primate Research Center protects irreplaceable specimens, vaccines, and reagents with smart, customized freezer monitoring.

A critical function of any laboratory is ensuring that refrigeration systems accurately track and maintain proper temperatures to safeguard the invaluable specimens, vaccines, and reagents they house. A single freezer or refrigerator failure — or an unannounced shift in storage temperature — can lead to sudden, major losses with serious financial and scientific consequences. Much of what's stored simply cannot be replaced.

The challenge: every freezer matters, and every alert has to count

Armed with that reality and determined to protect every perishable specimen, Tulane University's National Primate Research Center (TNPRC) — one of seven NIH-funded National Primate Research Centers in the country — set out to find the right monitoring solution.

Within TNPRC, every freezer needs protection. But raw coverage isn't enough on its own: alerts have to be smart and customized so the right staff are notified the right way at the right time. Without that intelligence, the team would face false alarms, alert fatigue, and wasted time — exactly the conditions in which a real failure gets missed.

The solution: CORIS, powered by MultiTech connectivity

TNPRC deployed CORIS for end-to-end temperature monitoring across its freezer and refrigerator fleet, with MultiTech LoRaWAN connectivity providing the wireless backbone. The combination gave the team facility-wide coverage and the routing intelligence to make every alert meaningful.

• Wireless temperature monitoring on every freezer and refrigerator housing specimens, vaccines, and reagents
• LoRaWAN-based connectivity via MultiTech for long range, deep building penetration, and minimal IT overhead
• Smart, customized alert routing so the right staff are notified for the right asset
• Tiered escalation that distinguishes a borderline excursion from a true emergency
• Centralized dashboard providing a single, real-time view of every cold storage unit on site

The result: protected research, fewer false alarms

With CORIS and MultiTech in place, TNPRC moved from broad, undifferentiated alerts to a precisely tuned monitoring program. Staff trust the notifications they receive — and act on them — because each one is targeted to the right person and the right severity. The result is streamlined freezer maintenance, fewer interruptions from false alarms, and a stronger safety net under research that simply cannot be redone.