I work in the foodservice equipment sector at the moment and there's a huge demand from the manufacturers to add upstream monitoring to their devices.
This is mostly motivated by the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) guidelines that the US FDA has set in place. Someday that designation will change from "suggested" to "mandatory".
The equipment requirements are pretty large. Restaurants need devices to track refrigeration temperatures, cooking/holding/production temperatures and times, equipment status, check probes, and lots more. Eventually most of the devices in a kitchen will be IoT connected in some form or another. Many of the larger chains will also want this data pushed upstream to their servers for overall safety monitoring and, eventually, other "big data" benefits from seeing store production in near real-time.
This is mostly motivated by the HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) guidelines that the US FDA has set in place. Someday that designation will change from "suggested" to "mandatory".
The equipment requirements are pretty large. Restaurants need devices to track refrigeration temperatures, cooking/holding/production temperatures and times, equipment status, check probes, and lots more. Eventually most of the devices in a kitchen will be IoT connected in some form or another. Many of the larger chains will also want this data pushed upstream to their servers for overall safety monitoring and, eventually, other "big data" benefits from seeing store production in near real-time.