Unleash your store’s opportunities and optimize food safety
Danfoss Smart Store solutions help build the supermarkets of tomorrow by reducing costs, minimizing environmental impact, and finding a competitive advantage, while safeguarding food safety. Every day, we are dedicated to making your store just a little smarter.
Mega trends like electrification, digital communications, and the fight against climate change are creating both opportunities and challenges. Danfoss Smart Store solutions are constantly expanded and developed in close cooperation with the global food retail community and is already proven in more than 50,000 installations.
What's in it for you?
Use smart refrigeration control to reduce operating costs
Connect to the internet to eliminate food waste and reduce service costs
Sustainable refrigeration as a long-term decision
Integrate each store’s systems to gain economies of scale
Reduce energy prices by optimizing demand
Experience real supermarket efficiency
Real settings. Real solutions. Real results.
The struggle for ultimate efficiency is more real in retail than anywhere else. Fortunately, you can say the same about the combined Smart Store supermarket and Danfoss Application Development Center in Nordborg — it’s as real as it gets.
Featuring only existing and available solutions and technology — in a fully operational supermarket — See exactly how supermarkets can reduce food loss and ensure food safety, work towards a net zero store, utilize digitalization to optimize operations, and become a key player in the energy eco system.
So, go beyond theory, prototypes, and simulation. And experience supermarket efficiency that is real, relatable, and reliable.
5 ways to maximize efficiency and food safety with Danfoss Smart Store
Danfoss Smart Store solutions help build the supermarkets of tomorrow by reducing costs, minimizing environmental impact, and finding a competitive advantage, while safeguarding food safety.
Highlighted products
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The CCMT is a highly reliable electric pressure regulating valve optimized for transcritical CO₂ refrigeration. The valve has versatile applications in the transcritical system.
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Danfoss offers a range of compressor and condenser capacity controls for use in food retail, in compact systems as well as in large power packs.
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Danfoss’ range of universal MCX programmable controllers offers the functionality and reliability you need to get the best out of your heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) equipment.
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The system manager is the key component of the intelligent Danfoss ADAP-KOOL® refrigeration system for food retail.
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EVT high pressure range is a direct or servo operated valve specially designed for CO2 transcritical refrigeration systems.
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For robust, efficient, and responsive control, Danfoss world-renowned, ADAP Kool® expansion valves, AKV, cover applications ranging from lower capacity commercial applications with CO2 and HFC refrigerant to large industrial applications with ammonia as a refrigerant.
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Danfoss offers a range of evaporator controls with thermostatic expansion valves or with electric expansion valves.
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The Danfoss Multi Ejector Solution™ ensures that transcritical CO₂ applications for retailers become energy efficient in any climate.
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The Danfoss Heat Recovery Unit helps to eliminate the technical challenges of managing heat recovery.
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Refrigeration temperature sensors are used for applications within air-conditioning as well as commercial and industrial refrigeration applications. The Pt 1000 sensor element meets the DIN/IES 751 class B requirements and ensures an accurate and reliable temperature signal applicable for regulation, safety, and data logging.
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Refrigeration pressure transmitters are used for commercial air-conditioning and for commercial and industrial refrigeration applications. They are made in stainless steel to be compatible with fluorinated and natural refrigerants and laser welding with no soft seals ensure hermetic tightness for decades.
Documents
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| Brochure | A complete portfolio of CO₂ refrigeration solutions | Polish | Poland | 27 Jun, 2023 | 16.7 MB | |
| Brochure | Brochure_ADAP-KOOL_Evaporator_Controllers | French | France | 18 Mar, 2020 | 1.2 MB | |
| Brochure | Brochure_ADAP-KOOL_Evaporator_Controllers | Polish | Poland | 30 May, 2023 | 4.6 MB | |
| Brochure | Brochure_ADAP-KOOL_Evaporator_Controllers | Russian | Central Asia Unit | 24 Apr, 2020 | 3.7 MB | |
| Catalog | Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications | Spanish, Castilian | Multiple | 18 Jul, 2024 | 1.2 MB | |
| Catalog | Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications | French | France | 18 Oct, 2024 | 1.4 MB | |
| Catalog | Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications | Italian | Italy | 17 Jul, 2024 | 4.3 MB | |
| Catalog | Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications | English | Multiple | 16 Apr, 2024 | 2.7 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: Evaporator Controllers | Italian | Italy | 22 May, 2024 | 934.1 KB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: Evaporator Controllers | Spanish, Castilian | Spain | 24 Apr, 2024 | 2.9 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: Evaporator Controllers | English | Multiple | 15 Mar, 2024 | 1.9 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: Pack Controllers | English | Multiple | 11 Jun, 2024 | 2.6 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Korean | Multiple | 17 Mar, 2016 | 1.8 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | German | Multiple | 01 Feb, 2016 | 1.6 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Finnish | Multiple | 01 Feb, 2016 | 1.5 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Russian | Multiple | 02 Jul, 2019 | 6.8 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Chinese (CN) | Multiple | 18 Mar, 2016 | 2.2 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Swedish | Multiple | 01 Feb, 2016 | 1.5 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Spanish, Castilian | Multiple | 01 Feb, 2016 | 1.5 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Portuguese | Multiple | 01 Feb, 2016 | 1.6 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Danish | Multiple | 17 Mar, 2016 | 1.5 MB | |
| Brochure | Overview brochure: System Managers (Global) | Italian | Multiple | 17 Mar, 2016 | 1.5 MB | |
| Brochure | Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions | Spanish, Castilian | Spain | 09 Jan, 2024 | 25.4 MB | |
| Brochure | Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions | Italian | Italy | 12 Dec, 2023 | 16.5 MB | |
| Brochure | Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail | German | Multiple | 14 Jun, 2023 | 11.7 MB | |
| Brochure | Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail | French | France | 04 Aug, 2022 | 11.7 MB | |
| Brochure | Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail | English | Multiple | 19 Apr, 2024 | 15.9 MB | |
| Brochure | Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail | French | Multiple | 03 Jul, 2018 | 3.4 MB | |
| Brochure | Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail | Ukrainian | Ukraine | 20 Jun, 2023 | 14.6 MB | |
| Brochure | Smart Store Brochure | English | Multiple | 05 Oct, 2022 | 23.8 MB | |
| Brochure | Smart Store Brochure | German | Multiple | 20 Aug, 2020 | 3.7 MB |
Related applications
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Your refrigeration system is the natural place to look for energy efficiency gains. To unlock that potential, you need a controller, expansion valve, and high accuracy sensors that are smart enough to make the technology work together—and a system manager that can help you see and control the bigger picture.
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Danfoss has pioneered CO₂ refrigeration systems for more than 10 years. Learn more about our CO₂ refrigeration solutions for supermarkets here.
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Our innovative sensors precisely and continuously measure climate parameters and environmentally harmful gases, providing documentation of regulatory compliance and essential input for energy optimization.
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Align your heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration systems, to save money, safeguard stock, and reduce your environmental impact. Integrated solutions unlock the full potential of each application and increases the efficiency of the entire system.
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Connecting your refrigeration system to the cloud offers a world of possibilities to save money and improve food safety. Remote monitoring and management make it easy to check and triage system alarm.
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Energy cost is one of the biggest expenses in the daily operation of your supermarkets. Therefore, retailers increasingly look to enhance the energy efficiency within the stores.
Articles
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This year’s UN Food Day is a unique one. While the world is still grappling with pandemic related supply chain challenges, I can’t help but reflect on the state of food transport.
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Before digging into the secret of Danfoss adaptive defrost, let’s first take a look at the most common methods of defrosting refrigerated display cases, and why they’re necessary.
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If you work in facilities or energy management for a food retailer, change is something you handle every day. When the way we live, work, or shop changes, new food retail technology is close behind.
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Many new kinds of store facility technologies promise to help. Big data, automation, and the Internet of Things (IoT) all have the potential to save food retailers time, money, and energy, while preventing food waste.
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Around the world, there is little doubt that CO2 is fast becoming food retailers’ refrigerant of choice. At Danfoss alone, we’re currently seeing supermarkets switching to CO2 refrigeration systems at a rate of around 10,000 a year—and that number is growing fast.
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When you stop and think about it, it’s a little strange that supermarkets usually pay to heat their premises and water while their refrigeration system works overtime to move heat energy outside.
Case stories
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A busy Danish supermarket reduced its annual heating bill by 89.7% and its CO₂ footprint by 6.7 tons a year by making use of the waste heat from its refrigeration system.
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A Danish supermarket fulfills 95 percent of its heating demand from its own cooling display cases. The chain has installed Danfoss heat recovery units and managed to halve its CO2 footprint in five years. Imagine if this was done in all supermarkets in the world.
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Danfoss Enterprise Services in Baltimore delivers real-time insight to 14,000 supermarket operators and the demand is growing.
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The supermarket aktiv & irma in Oldenburg, Germany, has pressed the start-button to a solution enabling it to store and generate electricity. The grocery store’s manager calls it a leap forward in energy supply. Danfoss and SMA have helped make it happen. Learn how.
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A stronger environmental profile and energy savings of approx. 30% from a cooling solution that can be expanded as needed. These are the results so far for Danish organic food company Aarstiderne. Since Q1 2018, the company’s facilities at Barritskov, Denmark, have relied on a CO₂ cooling system with Danfoss components delivered by refrigeration installer company JF Køleteknik A/S.
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Danfoss offers a complete portfolio of gas and liquid ejectors that provide significant benefits in CO2 refrigeration applications. Here we take a closer look at these offerings: the Multi Ejector Low Pressure (LP), the Multi Ejector High Pressure (HP), and the Liquid Ejector (LE). All three ejector products are only available as a complete Multi Ejector Solution™ where the ejector is bundled with the AK-PC 782A pack controller to provide the robust system controls necessary for efficient and reliable operation.
Learning
Danfoss smart store solutions
Discover the 5 megatrends that will shape the workload for today’s supermarket technical teams—and the five key ways you can respond.
Our brand new eLesson focuses on the cornerstone aspects of the Danfoss Smart Store and the key technologies in place that make it such a powerful and valuable concept for supermarkets.
Register now to learn how to tap into the latest energy-saving solutions, reduce impact on the environment, and ultimately increase your bottom line.
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