Emerson Launches Lumity Brand for Food, Pharma Protection

With the increasing emphasis on supply chain security, companies are launching solutions to help safeguard key items such as food, medical supplies, and commercial products. Emerson has built a strong presence in this field, and launched its new Lumity brand of analytics software and digital solutions.

Emerson’s Lumity portfolio use advanced technologies to monitor environmental factors across pharmaceutical and food supply chains. This allows stakeholders to follow real-time data and take fast action when temperature and humidity swings are detected.

Products launching in the coming months include:

• Lumity wireless data logger to help protect temperature- and humidity-sensitive products for health care settings, hospitals and pop-up vaccination sites;
• Lumity facility management solutions, a software and control platform for supermarkets, convenience stores and other food and pharmacy retail locations;
• Lumity remote temperature sensing system for restaurants and foodservice in grocery stores.

“Maintaining the integrity and reliability of critical supply chains like vaccines, medicine, and food is increasingly important to the industries and the families we serve around the world,” said Jamie Froedge, executive president of Emerson’s Commercial & Residential Solutions business. “The creation of our Lumity brand of monitoring solutions and analytics will help essential industries protect their vital goods from production to the point of sale.”

“We’ve collaborated for decades with our leading customers in the cold chain space, and we’ve seen a fast-growing shift toward data-driven solutions that protect the integrity of food and pharmaceutical offerings,” added John Rhodes, group president of Emerson’s cold chain business. “Our Lumity portfolio will enable manufacturers to gather more relevant, real-time data than ever before, driving actionable data insights to optimize the quality and integrity of the supply chain and help safeguard the world’s food and medicine supply.”