A healthcare environmental monitoring system appears simple when everything is working. A sensor measures temperature. A gateway receives the reading. The network moves the information. A cloud platform displays it. An alert is generated if something goes wrong. Staff respond. But what happens when one of those connections disappears? A hospital loses internet access. A

A pharmacy refrigerator fails. Staff react quickly. Temperature-sensitive inventory is transferred into the designated backup refrigerator. The emergency plan worked. Or did it? When was the backup refrigerator last checked? Is its temperature monitoring device calibrated? Does it have continuous monitoring? Will anyone receive an alert if the backup unit fails overnight? Is it connected