BREQ

Every vial.
Every degree.
Accounted for.

We built a device that attaches to hospital medication fridges and listens to the compressor. When something is going wrong, we know 48 hours before any temperature excursion happens. When a nurse scans a vial at dispensing, we've already checked its entire history. From the factory to that exact moment.

Built in Sønderborg, Denmark
· Hardware + AI · Hospital-ready
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BREQ Device — Ward B, Fridge 03
BREQ device mounted on a hospital medication fridge
Device ID: BRQ-4821  ·  Compressor: nominal  ·  Temp: 4.1°C
Live monitoring
$35B
in pharmaceutical losses annually
due to cold chain failure
Source: WHO / IQVIA
25%
of temperature-sensitive vaccines
arrive degraded or damaged
Source: WHO Cold Chain Report
48h
advance warning BREQ provides
before a fridge fails
vs. 0 hours with today's systems
Critical Gap

The tracking
dies at the
hospital door.

Medicine travels 1,000 miles with perfect telemetry. GPS, satellite, sensors logging every degree. Then it hits the hospital dock and the data chain breaks. A nurse dispenses a vial hours later with no idea what happened to it in transit.

That gap is where patients get hurt. It's also where no one has looked. Until now.

01
In transit

Temperature, humidity, vibration logged every 60s. Full telemetry.

Tracked
02
Cold storage / warehouse

Environmental controls, IoT sensors, auditable logs.

Tracked
03
Hospital dock to ward

No indoor position. Temperature link broken. History inaccessible.

Gap
04
Point of dispensing

Nurse scans the vial. No integrity data. No excursion alerts.

Blind
BREQ Compressor Analysis — Fridge 03
⚠ Anomaly Detected
Normal Signature — 72h ago
Anomalous Signature — NOW

Compressor Health
38%
Vibration Stability
22%
Frequency Variance
↑ High

Compressor failure predicted in ~44 hours. Risk of 14°C excursion if unaddressed. Maintenance alert sent. Contents flagged for transfer.

How it works

We hear the
fridge failing
before it does.

Every compressor has a vibration and frequency signature. As it degrades, that signature shifts. Subtly, long before the temperature inside ever changes.

The BREQ device mounts directly onto the fridge. It reads the compressor continuously and flags anomalies as they develop. By the time a temperature excursion would occur, we've already been warning you for two days.

Vibration and frequency analysis

Our hardware picks up micro-vibrations and frequency shifts in the compressor motor. These are invisible to temperature sensors but they're the earliest signal a fridge is in trouble.

48-hour prediction window

The AI models were trained to correlate those vibration patterns with real failure timelines. That gives hospital staff a full 48-hour window to move stock before anything is compromised.

Tied to the full chain of custody

The device doesn't only watch the fridge. It connects to everything upstream: the transit record, the warehouse handoff, every temperature reading since the medicine left the manufacturer.

Inside the hospital

Once inside,
we don't
lose it.

Once medicine crosses the dock, BREQ takes over from GPS. The device knows where everything is inside the building, and it keeps the temperature record unbroken.

Room-level routing

Staff are directed to the exact fridge and shelf. No searching, no wasted time when someone is waiting on a dose.

Automatic redirect

If a location is empty or the stock there is flagged, the system reroutes to the next verified safe option.

BREQ Indoor Intelligence — Ward B
Fridge 03 · Medication Room 2B Route active
Redirect — Fridge 07 Standby
› Insulin (lot #4821) — Shelf B, Row 2, Fridge 03
› If empty → reroute to Fridge 07 (safe stock confirmed)
› Temp history: intact · No excursions detected
✓  All integrity checks passed  ·  Safe to dispense
BREQ Safety Interlock — Live Verification
$breq verify --id INS-4821-B2
Loading chain-of-custody record...
Analysing 1,247 datapoints...

TRANSIT  ✓ PASS  Temp 2°C–8°C (1,080 readings)
DOCK    ✓ PASS  Handoff verified
COMPRESSOR⚠ WARN  Vibration anomaly +34h ago
INDOOR  ✗ FAIL  Temp excursion +3.4°C (14 min)

ALERT:  Temperature excursion confirmed.
ACTION: Dispense BLOCKED.
›  Pharmacist notified. Batch quarantined.
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At the bedside

The nurse scans.
We check everything.

When a nurse scans a vial, BREQ pulls the full history: the transit record, the compressor data, everything that happened in the ward. It takes milliseconds. If anything in that chain went wrong, dispensing is blocked before the medicine reaches the patient.

01

Scan

Nurse scans the barcode or NFC tag at the point of dispensing.

02

Check

BREQ queries the full record in real time: transit logs, compressor analysis, and everything that happened in the ward.

03

Interlock

If there was an excursion anywhere in the chain: dispense blocked, pharmacist notified, batch quarantined. If clean, the nurse proceeds with confidence.

How we're different

Temperature sensors
tell you when it's
already too late.

Every existing system monitors temperature and fires an alert after a failure has started. We look upstream, at the mechanical health of the fridge itself, and we stop the problem before it becomes one.

BREQ

What we do differently

One unbroken record, from the manufacturer to the moment of dispensing.

  • Predicts compressor failure 48 hours before any temperature change
  • Tracks medicine from logistics into the hospital (no one else does this)
  • Blocks dispensing at the point of care if history shows an excursion
  • Hardware device on the fridge, not a software layer
  • Clips onto existing fridges, no replacement needed
Everyone else

Where current solutions fall short

Traditional monitoring alerts you after a failure has already started. And it stops at the hospital dock.

  • Temperature sensors only, no predictive capability
  • Alert fires after the excursion has begun
  • No coverage inside the hospital at all
  • No connection between transit data and clinical dispensing
  • Clinical staff have no way to verify what happened upstream
One platform

Two worlds.

Logistics and clinical, connected.

Logistics

GPS tracking, compressor vibration prediction, and a full chain-of-custody record from the manufacturer to the hospital dock.

Clinical

Indoor tracking, room-level routing, and a safety interlock at the point of dispensing. The part of the chain nobody else has touched.

Business model

How we make money.

A device licensed per fridge, with a subscription for the platform. Hospitals keep their existing fridges. We just make them smarter.

01

Device licensing

The BREQ hardware unit is licensed to hospitals on a per-fridge annual basis. No large upfront cost, no rip-and-replace.

Hardware
02

Platform subscription

Monthly per-device fee for the software: AI analytics, alerts, chain-of-custody records, routing, and the safety interlock.

Recurring
03

Distributor integration

API access for pharmaceutical distributors and logistics operators who want to connect their transit data to what happens inside the hospital.

Enterprise
Raising now

The problem is real.
The gap is open.
We're building the fix.

We're a small team based in Sønderborg, early but moving fast. We're targeting our first pilot with a hospital in Region Syddanmark, and looking for the investors who want in before this becomes obvious. MedTech, HealthTech, pharma infrastructure. If any of that is your world, we'd genuinely like to hear from you.

Built at

SDU SDU Startup Station SDU SDU Startup Station SDU SDU Startup Station SDU SDU Startup Station

Developed at SDU Startup Station, Sønderborg

Get in Touch

Let's talk.

Our first target is a pilot in Southern Denmark. If you work at a hospital in Region Syddanmark, are an investor, or want to explore a partnership, we want to hear from you.

Location

SDU Startup Station, Sønderborg, Denmark

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