SmartSense

10/12/2026

Organizational mediocrity tends to accumulate quietly through tolerated inefficiencies, unclear accountability structures, and tentative decision-making. Read SmartSense President Guy Yehiav's Forbes Technology Council article, "Disrupting Mediocrity With An Ownership And Accountability Culture."

The highest-performing technology companies are distinguished by cultures in which accountability is operationalized at every level of the business.

10/01/2026

Press Release: Digi International Announces Intent to Acquire Disruptive Technologies to Advance SmartSense Physical-World Intelligence Platform and Enter Europe

Acquisition combines Disruptive Technologies’ best-in-class sensing with SmartSense AI and digital workflows to create a trusted data foundation for enterprise AI.

Read Full Press Release: https://www.smartsense.co/press/intent-acquire-disruptive-technologies

09/24/2026

“Another big one is you have coolers that go high at night sometimes, which I didn't know this until I was monitoring them, go high and they've ran high for hours and hours and hours and then they cool down. So, the staff doesn't even know that their food was adulterated in the night, same with milk coolers we've had where milk coolers ran super high and then it freezes itself. Well, they don't know that milk sat for 8 hours above 41 degrees because the cooler corrects itself the next day. So, if you're just writing a paper log, you're just getting a moment in time. You don't know what happened in the night when you weren't there.” - Willow Kriegel, Director of Nutrition at West Des Moines Community Schools

09/24/2026

SmartSense Report: 79% of Loss and Organized Retail Crime Prevention Leaders More Concerned About Cargo Theft Than Ever Before

Survey shows growing concern around cargo theft becoming more organized, sophisticated and frequent.

Read the Full Press Release: https://www.smartsense.co/cargo-theft-report-2026

09/23/2026

“We don't have any of those incidents happen anymore. We know that our food is stored properly, it's safe. I can see when somebody's put something too hot in a freezer and it alerts me. I can see when they didn't shut the milk cooler after lunch. I can see all of those things from my office and that's worth its weight in gold for me.” - Willow Kriegel, Director of Nutrition at West Des Moines Community Schools

09/22/2026

“We've added a lot of temperature monitoring systems, cooler freezer temperature monitoring and also our handhelds where all of our menus are integrated right into the handheld and staff can take the temperature with the food item. It helps us with the flow of food. It actually gives them their corrective action right in the handheld. So, if it's too hot or too cold, it tells them that information. They can put a corrective action in there. It helps with food quality, not only safety, but from a quality standpoint of overcooking something. So, we have a threshold where it tells you you've cooked it too hot or you haven't cooked it hot enough.” - Willow Kriegel, Director of Nutrition at West Des Moines Community Schools

09/22/2026

Dr. Darin Detwiler, LP.D. and Callin Godson-Green, MSc. sit down with Willow Kriegel, Director of Nutrition at West Des Moines Community Schools, on Episode 20 of Spoiler Alert! They discuss how local sourcing, nutrition education, food safety training, and automation technologies are helping modernize school nutrition operations.

09/15/2026

SmartSense President Guy Yehiav joined FreightWaves' WHAT THE TRUCK?!? podcast to break down physical and digital vulnerabilities in today's supply chains.

Malcolm and The Dude dissect recent CargoNet reports regarding Labo...

09/11/2026

In any scaled organization, silos tend to emerge because the system incentivizes it. Read SmartSense President Guy Yehiav's Forbes Technology Council article, "Why Local KPIs Create Silos: What It Takes To Operate As One Team."

If success is defined only by function, performance will fragment. If success is defined collectively, teams begin to act as one because the system requires it.

09/10/2026

In Episode 19 of Spoiler Alert!, Dr. Darin Detwiler, LP.D. and Callin Godson-Green, MSc. speak with Fayette County Public Schools (KY) nutrition leaders about the technology, food safety practices, operational challenges, and planning required to serve thousands of students across more than 60 school kitchens.

In this episode of Spoiler Alert, Dr. Darin Detwiler and Callin God...