Six categories.
Twenty-plus capabilities.
Cold Konnect ships the full feature set on day one — nothing deferred. Each capability below has a one-line summary, what it actually does, and which side of the platform uses it. This page is the canonical reference.
Discovery — finding what you need
Map-first listings of every part of the cold chain. Searchable by location, capacity unit, temperature setpoint and trust badge.
Cold storage discovery
Find verified cold storages within a configurable radius. Capacity-unit filters (MT · bags · pallets · sq ft) so you only see what fits your produce.
- Live chamber temperature on every listing card
- KYC-verified Aadhaar, PAN, FSSAI/GST shown as a green badge
- Mixed-unit chambers per cold storage (e.g. Chamber A in MT, Chamber B in bags)
- Distance & one-tap WhatsApp / call to the partner
Reefer & dry truck discovery
Live GPS, reefer setpoint, geofence breach alerts and ETA — all in one searchable feed. Filter by capacity tonnage, route, vehicle age and driver rating.
- Reefer setpoint pre-filter — only see trucks that match your cargo
- Live ETA pings every 30 seconds while in motion
- Driver profile + license expiry visible upfront
- Geofence exit alerts pushed to WhatsApp the moment a breach happens
Marketplace vendors — 92 subcategories
Four main categories (Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Manufacturers) and 92 vetted subcategories — both farmer-facing and partner-facing.
- Farmers: fertilisers, pesticides, seeds, drip systems, farm equipment
- Partners (B2B): packaging, refrigerants, EPC construction, IoT sensors, machinery
- Filter by district + commodity + brand · contact directly via phone or WhatsApp
- Verified Pan-India tier gets a featured-listing slot
Pre-decision tools — knowing before you commit
Cold Konnect refuses to be a blind contact book. Before any user contacts any partner, the app puts the numbers on the screen.
Truck Cost Estimator
A transparent reefer-vs-dry cost estimate using current diesel prices, NHAI toll data, mileage curves and standard driver day-rates. Sources cited inline.
- Side-by-side reefer (₹/km) vs dry (₹/km) breakdown
- Reefer-only line item for cooling-unit fuel (5 hr × 3 L/hr typical)
- NHAI toll data per highway segment, not a flat ₹/km
- Driver day-rate slider (₹1,500 dry default · ₹1,800 reefer default)
- Admin can update diesel & toll rate config without app release
Side-by-side listing comparison
Pin up to 4 cold-storage or truck listings — compare temperature setpoint, capacity, price band and verified status in a single column.
- Comparison persists across sessions
- Highlights mismatches automatically
- Share comparison sheet as PDF to WhatsApp
Crop intelligence — for the field
Tools rooted in five decades of horticultural counsel. Built so that a Telugu-speaking smallholder never has to read English to use them.
AI plant disease scan
Point your camera at an affected leaf. Get a disease ID, confidence score and a treatment plan in your language — in seconds.
- Crops covered: mango, tomato, pomegranate, banana, citrus, grape, chilli, +20 more
- Treatment plan with dosage calculator, in 5 languages
- Low-confidence (<70%) scans auto-escalate to the community for human help
- V2 roadmap: custom on-device model trained on user-collected data
District-level weather & forecasts
OpenWeather + IMD fallback for the 742 Indian districts the platform covers. 7-day forecast horizon, severe-weather push and WhatsApp alerts.
- Granular alerts: only the weather events relevant to your crops
- Sunrise + sunset times, humidity, wind direction
- Cyclone & heavy-rain notice 24 h ahead, where available
Mandi rates · 500+ commodities
Daily prices from Agmarknet (data.gov.in) with intelligent caching. Every rate is timestamped — never act on stale data.
- Trend sparklines: 30-day / 90-day / 365-day
- Price-move alerts you opt into by commodity, district, threshold
- Tomorrow forecast band based on 5-year seasonal trend
Community — the village square in your pocket
A moderated farmer-to-farmer feed for buy/sell of produce and expert-validated answers on disease, weather and best practice.
Buy & sell produce
List a harvest for sale or post a buy request. Search by commodity, location and quality grade. Contact directly via WhatsApp.
- Crop-specific channels (mango · pomegranate · tomato · banana …)
- District filter — find a buyer next door, not three states away
- No transaction fee, ever — Cold Konnect never sits between buyer and seller
Ask the community
Photo + question → answers from peers AND verified experts within hours. Disease, dosage, market timing, anything.
- "Verified Expert" badge for horticulturists & agriculture officers
- Replies surface in your language regardless of source language
- Best replies pinned to the top by the moderator team
Five Indian languages
English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Punjabi — every label, every advisory, every push notification. Translated by humans with agri-domain experience.
- Hot-reloadable translations — fix a typo without a code release
- In-app voice playback of treatment plans (roadmap)
- More languages on the roadmap based on partner demand
Operations — for partners
The Partner app is where the cold-chain actually gets run. IoT telemetry, inventory, customer reports and B2B procurement — in one offline-first tool.
IoT telemetry
Sub-second temperature, humidity, door-open and RTC alerts from every chamber and every reefer. AWS IoT Core MQTT pipeline.
- 24-hour rolling charts per sensor
- Push + WhatsApp + email alerts on threshold breach
- Cargo-proof report exportable as PDF for shippers
- Vendor-agnostic — works with any AWS-IoT compatible gateway
Customer-wise reports
Per-customer inward/outward history, average storage duration, commodity breakdown — exportable as PDF, shareable on WhatsApp.
- Monthly volume bar chart per customer
- Outstanding bag counts at any given date
- Branded export with your cold-storage name + logo
- Replaces the spreadsheet your accountant currently maintains
Inventory · lots · gatepasses
Inward, outward and damaged lots with their own tags. Generate gatepasses as PDF + QR codes in seconds.
- Multi-location aware — one partner, many storages
- Lot tags printable to a thermal label printer over Bluetooth
- Damage reasons captured for insurance claims
Vendor listings & ad placements
Marketplace vendors list across 92 subcategories. Verified Pan-India tier unlocks featured slots on Discover.
- Single subscription covers your full catalog
- Ads run on a clean rate card — no auction games
- Lead inbox with one-tap WhatsApp reply
Platform · the non-negotiables
The boring-sounding things that quietly do the heavy lifting. Skip them and the rest doesn't work.
KYC-verified partners
Aadhaar, PAN, FSSAI/GST and ownership/lease proof are vetted before any listing goes live. Trust drives bookings.
- Aadhaar OKYC (only last 4 digits retained)
- PAN validated via NSDL
- FSSAI / GSTIN validated against public registers
- 24–48 h review window during business days
Offline-first
Every write is queued locally and synced when signal returns. Works on 2G. Built for the gate of a rural cold storage.
- SQLite-backed write queue
- Optimistic UI — your screen never blocks waiting for the network
- Conflict resolution is last-write-wins with admin override
Smart renewal alerts
A graduated reminder cadence on day 70, 75, 80, 85, 89 of the user trial. Push + WhatsApp + email — no surprise lockouts.
- Granular opt-in per channel
- Day-91 grace period before paid features pause
- One-tap re-subscription with saved Razorpay mandate
Razorpay subscriptions
Annual subscriptions via UPI mandates, NACH or card. Per-listing billing for partners, single annual plan for users.
- GST invoices auto-generated and emailed
- Subscription dashboard inside the app
- Per-listing cancel — does not affect other listings
Multi-user partner accounts
Manager · supervisor · gate-clerk roles with scoped permissions. Audit log of every entry, geo-stamped.
- SSO across all your storages and trucks
- Permission scopes per chamber / per vehicle
- Geo-stamped audit log for compliance
5 Indian languages, human-translated
Hot-reloadable JSON translations. Add a 6th language without an app release.
- English, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Punjabi at launch
- Translators with agri-domain background, not generic LSPs
- Hot patch translations without a Play / App Store release
Every feature has a story.
Most of these capabilities exist because a farmer explicitly asked for them — to Sudhakar Rao in 1985, or to Upender Rao in 2005, or to Koundinya in 2023. The archive of those requests goes back to 1986.