TemperatureWise vs Checkit: a posted monitor, or a managed platform
By Vimal Bhaya, Founder and Lead Systems Architect · Last reviewed 18 October 2026
This is a continuation of TemperatureWise vs Competitors, a 12-part tutorial. You are on part 9 of 12.
Checkit temperature monitoring is part of a connected operations platform. Digital checklists, a handheld if you want one, and a wireless sensor network they install and look after. Temperature monitoring is one piece of that platform, sold on a contract, not a shop price.
TemperatureWise is a temperature monitoring system. You buy the sensors. You pay $250 per sensor per year. Texts, phone calls and machine-learning detection sit in that number. There is no 36 month minimum on the page.
If you need the checklists, you can run both. Buy Checkit for the work. Use TemperatureWise for the boxes. That is the same split we make against Jolt, and it is the honest one.
What Checkit gets right as a managed service
In the refrigeration forums, Checkit shows up as a company that comes to you:
"Check out Checkit - they install remote monitoring systems and can have email or telephone alarms sent to you based on your requirements."
Technician, r/refrigeration
Three things that recommendation is pointing at.
They install it. Sensors, a hub, repeaters if the signal is poor. Sense needs your Wi-Fi or Ethernet. SenseFlex adds a cellular path so the site does not have to give them a network. You are not pairing gadgets on a Saturday.
The subscription is meant to swallow the ugly line items. Their Peace of Mind model, on the published datasheets, puts initial hardware, ongoing calibration, support and swap-outs into a regular fee. ISO 17025 calibration is available. Sensors are written to store a reading every 5 minutes. Premium monitoring adds a staffed alarm calling centre that phones the keyholder list, with a published target of starting that call within five minutes of the alarm.
Work management is a real product, not a bolted-on log. Digital checklists, scheduled tasks, a Bluetooth probe for a line check, photos, a hygienic handheld they call Memo. Automated monitoring and work management are listed as separate platform pieces. You can buy the app without the 24/7 sensors, which is the door for running TemperatureWise next to it.
Checkit locks the term at 36 or 48 months
This belongs in its own section because it changes what "how much" means.
Checkit's published terms say licences are per active device. Payment is annually in advance. Monthly and quarterly billing cost extra.
The minimum term is 36 or 48 months. Shorter is only at extra cost. Prices sit on a quote, not on a page. Subscription fees can rise each anniversary with an index.
That is a managed-service contract. It is honest about being one. It is also why a 40-seat operator who wanted a probe and a phone call ends up in a procurement loop.
TemperatureWise is $250 per sensor per year, posted. Hardware is yours. Adding a box is adding a sensor, not reopening a 48 month agreement.
TemperatureWise and Checkit side by side
| TemperatureWise | Checkit | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Temperature monitoring system | Operations platform plus managed sensor network |
| Pricing | Posted. $25 or $200 per sensor, $50 to $450 for the hub, $250 per sensor per year | Not posted. Quote. Annual in advance |
| Term | Yearly monitoring. Hardware you own | Minimum 36 or 48 months. Hardware inside Peace of Mind |
| Who installs | Self-install, or we design placement from a floor plan | They install |
| How it detects | A proprietary mix of machine learning on the full temperature history, not just the current reading | Rules and thresholds, with a delay you set. Checkit now also sells Asset Intelligence, which it says gives advance warning of failing fridges and freezers; not tested by us. Premium adds a human calling centre |
| Alerts | Email, text, phone call. Keeps going until someone picks up. In the price | Email and SMS on standard monitoring. Telephone follow-up on premium, inside five minutes of the alarm |
| Checklists and tasks | No. Temperature monitoring only | Yes: work management app, Memo handheld, Bluetooth probes for line checks |
| How often it logs | BLE: every 1 min, into the log every 5 min. LoRa: every 15 min | Every 5 minutes on the automated monitoring datasheets |
| Calibration | NIST-traceable calibration available. Factory accuracy ±0.3°C (±0.54°F) at 25°C on the freezer version, ±0.5°C (±0.9°F) on the cooler version | Manufacturer certificates. ISO 17025 UKAS available. Annual in-situ cal on CAM+ |
| Network | BLE or LoRa on site. Your internet, or cellular at $125 + $50/yr per location | Hub on Wi-Fi or Ethernet, or SenseFlex with cellular. Repeaters if needed |
Our prices are on the TemperatureWise page. Checkit does not post a dollar figure. The term, the billing and the calling-centre target are from their published terms and service sheets, read September 2026.
Checkit is an operations suite with a monitoring contract, not a temperature monitoring system
This is the same axis as the Jolt comparison, with a harder lock-in.
Jolt is checklists, labels and shift plans, with temperature as a module. Checkit is checklists plus a sensor estate they own for the term, plus an optional room of people who phone you. Search "Checkit alternatives" and you will get other operations platforms. You will not get a specialist asking whether the sensor can see a dying compressor.
TemperatureWise does one job. A proprietary mix of machine learning on the full temperature history, not just the current reading. Phone calls that keep going. A fleet view. NIST-traceable calibration on request. No labels, no opening checks, no handheld.
You can run both. Keep Checkit for the work management app and the line-check probes. Use TemperatureWise on the walk-ins, the reach-ins and the freezer Checkit's calling centre is not watching as a pattern. Two logins is real friction. A 48 month sensor contract for a job a $25 sensor can do is the other friction.
Switching from Checkit to TemperatureWise takes about a week of running both
Checkit is an operations platform, and its monitoring is sold on a 36- or 48-month contract. TemperatureWise is $250 per sensor per year, with texts, phone calls and machine-learning detection in that price. If your team uses Checkit's checklists, keep them and move only the cold boxes.
- Send us your Checkit history. TemperatureWise imports all of it free, so the old readings sit in the same record as the new ones. Export it before the account closes.
- Ask whether your sensors can stay. TemperatureWise can often connect to monitoring hardware already on site, so check before buying new sensors.
- Fit TemperatureWise beside the old system. A mid-sized restaurant takes 30 to 60 minutes, with no electrician and nothing drilled: see how long installation takes.
- Run both for a week. TemperatureWise learns each box's normal pattern in its first week, and you can compare the two side by side.
- Move the alert contacts, then end the Checkit monitoring when its term allows. Check the term first: Checkit sells on 36- or 48-month contracts.
We read your old data for faults, free. Send the Checkit history and TemperatureWise looks for equipment that is failing now, and for repairs that happened in the past. If you know what a technician actually found, you can check our reading against it.
The quick pick
| If you... | Pick |
|---|---|
| Need checklists, opening checks and a handheld, and you want one vendor to install sensors too | Checkit. That is the platform |
| Want a person to phone the keyholder list within five minutes, every night of the year | Checkit premium monitoring. A calling centre is a different product from an automated dialler |
| Need temperature monitoring only, at a posted price, with hardware you own | TemperatureWise |
| Will not sign a 36 or 48 month term | TemperatureWise |
| Want to spot a fault before the temperature crosses a line | TemperatureWise |
| Already like Checkit for ops and still want serious temperature monitoring | Both. Checkit for the work. TemperatureWise for the boxes |
Where TemperatureWise falls short in this match-up
We do not do checklists, opening checks, labelling or a kitchen handheld. If that is the job, Checkit is the product and we are not. Same concession as Jolt, and it is not a gap we are pretending to close.
We do not staff a calling centre. TemperatureWise calls your people until one of them picks up. Checkit's premium tier has a human who works down your list. If the reason you buy monitoring is that nobody on the night crew will answer an automated call, their centre is the better design.
They swap and calibrate as part of the fee. Peace of Mind is built so you are not tracking certificate dates. We offer NIST-traceable calibration. We do not pretend it is bundled into every sensor the way a managed contract bundles it.