Offshore oil platform in the North Sea seen from the deck of a supply vessel
Surfact for offshore container tracking

Pharma and food, inside containers going offshore.

Emma rides mounted inside the container with Emma Instant Clearance. A light on the Emma Smart Tracker shows whether the load has held your set temperature range for the whole journey. When the container lands on the platform or vessel, the crew reads the answer in a second and unloads with confidence. Simple install, long battery life, rugged and built tough for the trip out.

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Instant Clearance
A light says pass or fail
On the spot
Verdict at the lift
2 years
Battery, no charging offshore
Rugged
Built for deck and sea spray
Emma Instant Clearance

Verify the load the second it lands.

Emma is fixed to the ceiling rail inside the container before it leaves the supply base. It is always on and logs temperature continuously for the whole voyage, with no manual handling. Edge intelligence on the device compares every reading against your set limits, so the verdict is ready before anyone opens the doors.

Green, one blink

Temperature stayed inside the set limits for the entire transport. Food and medicine can be cleared and put to use immediately.

Red, three blinks

A deviation was recorded. The load is set aside for manual inspection before it is released.

  • Short blinks every minute, readable in the dark, in gloves, in weather
  • ISO 17025 certified sensors behind every verdict
  • No reader, no app and no waiting for a network connection
  • Full journey history uploads to the Emma Software once back on the coast
Emma Smart Tracker showing a green pass light and a red deviation light
The problem

Offshore is where the data usually stops.

A container leaves the supply base, sails for hours or days beyond cellular coverage, gets lifted onto a platform or a vessel and is opened by people who have minutes, not an office. Everything between quay and hook has historically been invisible.

Emma closes that gap by carrying the answer with the goods, and handing over the full record as soon as the container is back within range of a network.

Coverage ends at the coastline
Once the supply vessel leaves the quay there is no cellular network. The container keeps sailing, but the data stops, and everything after that is a guess until it comes back.
Nobody reads a logger on a windy deck
Unloading offshore happens fast, in weather, in a lift window. There is no time to dock a logger, pull a file and interpret a curve before the goods go inside.
Doubt costs more than the load
If nobody can say whether the chain held, the safe answer is to reject or re-freight it. Perfectly good food, medicine or samples get binned on suspicion.
Offshore is hard on hardware
Salt, shock, lifts, vibration and cold. Consumer-grade loggers and taped-on sensors do not survive the round trip out and back.
Quay to platform

Four steps, no operator.

Nothing to start, nothing to stop, nothing to charge and nothing to dock. Emma wakes with the container and keeps working through every leg of the trip.

The Emma Smart Tracker against the Norwegian coast
01
Mount it inside the container
Emma is mounted inside the container before it leaves the base. Under ten seconds, no wiring into the reefer unit, no gateway and no technician.
02
Live while there is coverage
On the quay and along the coast Emma reports temperature, position, light and shock over 4G/5G, exactly like your cellphone, straight into the Emma Software.
03
Emma Instant Clearance offshore
Past the last mast, Emma keeps the answer on the device. A light on the Emma Smart Tracker shows whether the load has stayed inside the set temperature range for the whole journey.
04
Cleared at the platform
When the goods arrive at the platform or vessel for unloading, the crew looks at the tracker and immediately sees whether the temperature has been correct all the way. Accept or reject on the spot.
Back on the grid

The whole journey, in the Emma Software.

  • Every container on one live map
  • Alerts before the load leaves the set range
  • Full journey log per container, time-stamped and retained
  • Open APIs into your logistics, QHSE and ERP systems
Emma Software shown across desktop, tablet and phone
Who it serves

One answer everyone can act on.

The crew on the deck, the base ashore and the quality team all need the same fact: did this container hold temperature. Emma gives it to each of them in the form they can actually use.

Offshore crew
No app, no reader, no training. A glance at the tracker on the container tells them whether the load held temperature the whole way out.
Base and logistics
See the containers still in coverage live, and get the full journey record the moment a container comes back within range of a network.
QHSE and quality
A continuous, time-stamped record per container, with excursions flagged and reports retained, instead of a signature and a hope.
Suppliers and vessel operators
Shared, factual evidence for what happened on each leg, so claims about a warm container are settled with data rather than opinion.
Open North Sea on the supply route out to an offshore fieldOffshore supply base container terminal with temperature-controlled containersEmma Smart Tracker mounted inside a crate
The device

Built tough in Norway for a tough journey.

Simple to install, up to two years of battery, a NIST-traceable calibration certificate and a housing made from recycled ocean plastic. Designed on the coast it has to survive.

Temperature range
–30 to +60 °C
Install time
Under 10 seconds
Battery life
Up to 2 years
Verdict at unloading
Emma Instant Clearance
Norwegian coastline facing the open sea
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