Beyond Temperature Polling - Designing an Event-Driven Cold Chain Telemetry Stack

TL;DR If your cold-chain tracker polls temperature every 10 minutes and ships the raw samples to the cloud, three things will eventually go wrong: You'll miss sub-interval excursions. A 4-minute spike that peaks mid-interval is simply invisible. Your payload bill will be dominated by 99.9% non-events. Most of those bytes are money set on fire. When a claim or audit happens, your "evidence" will be a wall of sample points that no one can navigate. Insurers and regulators want events, not rows...