R|trace by VEC Baltimore
The most powerful refrigerant process automation solution in the industry. Built to fit your enterprise. User friendly. Clear pricing.
Automated refrigerant compliance
Quickly gauge if events are not being processed correctly or expeditiously.
Track how much refrigerant is being filled by type, cylinder and store.
Automatically pull up published compliance reports on any PC or mobile device.
Real-time leak analysis across stores, regions and contractors.
Use component failure and repair data for preventive maintenance and system design.
Automatically trigger the compliance workflow from sensors, API or Danfoss/Emerson alarms.
Learn more about the R|trace solution
R|trace services
Advisory
Our first priority is to determine whether R|trace is a good fit for your enterprise. Initially we will provide a free refrigerant management and compliance assessment to identify where and how R|trace would drive down your refrigerant emissions.
The assessment is also applicable to new refrigerant management programs. We help identify the areas of focus and guide you through each implementation step.
Custom development
If you have experience with enterprise systems in the supermarket industry, you have likely wondered why it is so hard to get the vendor to accommodate even a simple change.
You will not find that attitude at VEC. In fact, we designed R|trace for flexible single customer deployments to ensure we easily can deploy custom features to your R|trace server as they get done.
Sensor integration
We are big fans of refrigerant devices such as leak detectors and level sensors. But typically these devices are underutilized because they figure as auxiliary devices in a building control system. The user is often left with nothing but a primitive alarm that needs to be tracked manually.
We can further automate the compliance workflow by integrating sensors with R|trace via: API posts, Danfoss/Emerson alarm processing or direct connection to VEC's sensor gateway.
Cloud hosting
R|trace is hosted in the cloud so you don't have to install and run server software in your organization. We make sure you always have access and that your data is safe.
We built R|trace to run on Amazon Web Services to take advantage of its unparalleled robustness, scalability and availability. That eliminates the need to maintain physical servers, so we can focus our efforts on the application.
Maintenance updates
VEC is dedicated to continuously innovate in refrigerant management. Improvements reflect what we learn from our customers and changes in regulation and technology. You'll receive regular updates, fixes and security patches as part of your service.
We are geared to support you with custom maintenance should your requirements evolve post deployment. It could be a simple engineering change order or a complete project to take your program up a notch.
Continuous improvement
Even the best executed implementation can be improved by adapting to what is learned over time. VEC can help you incorporate continuous improvement in your process by means of a periodic assessment service.
About us
VEC Baltimore was founded from experience in the refrigeration control industry, particularly energy controls for supermarkets. We recognize that supermarket chains are very complex businesses and large consumers of energy, fuel and refrigerants. The potential for resource savings is enormous.
But we don't believe it makes sense to throw increasingly complex devices at sustainability problems while ignoring the operational complexity of the organization. This is especially the case with solutions that need to incorporate complex business workflows such as the refrigerant compliance process.
VEC strives to focus on all aspects of a sustainability challenge. For the case of refrigerants, this means deploying and supporting R|trace to make the most positive impact in the customer's business.
Internally, we run lean and remain in complete control of our powerful platform, which is built on top of open-source software and hardware.
