Case Study: Cowgirl Creamery achieves precise cold-chain temperature control and real-time fleet visibility with Samsara

Cowgirl Creamery - Customer Case Study

Cowgirl Creamery, a Point Reyes–based artisanal cheesemaker known for award-winning soft cheeses, needed to maintain strict temperature and humidity control across 7,000 sq ft of aging, storage, and milk tanks plus a delivery fleet serving 300+ customer sites. The operation relied on manual clipboard checks and analog recorders, lacked real-time fleet visibility, and required tight environmental tolerances (±1°F) to protect product quality and food safety.

They installed Samsara EM12 wireless sensors with GW22 industrial and VG33 vehicle gateways, streaming temperature, humidity, and vehicle data to a cloud dashboard with alerts and automated logs. The solution provided instant notifications (catching a failing condenser), route visibility and rerouting to improve service, automated QA reports that save manual audits, and overall better protection of product quality and operational peace of mind.

Cowgirl Creamery

Maureen Cunnie

Operations Manager