When the shipment is on dry ice, in the hold of an aircraft, or worth more than the vehicle carrying it. A device rather than a label, with the full sensor set and probes that reach where a label cannot.
Supplied and supported in the UK by Butopia. Single units and small quantities are priced on the Butopia shop. Volume, probes and the monitoring service are a conversation — fifteen minutes, no slides, or email hello@butopia.co.uk if you would rather just ask.
A Tive tracker is a device: between ninety and a hundred and seventy-six grams depending on model, in a flame-retardant case, with a rechargeable battery and a charging cable. Compared with a Sensos label at twenty-four grams it is a lot of tracker.
You take that trade for three reasons, and if none of them applies to your lane you should buy the label instead.
The Solo Pro's screen is a smaller feature than it sounds and a bigger one in practice. It has an ePaper display on the tracker itself showing temperature, alarm status and mean kinetic temperature. A receiving quality team can make an accept-or-reject call standing at the pallet, without opening the shipment and without logging into anything. On a release decision that is hours, not minutes.
They look similar and are not. The choice is mostly about how much you have to prove and how cold it gets.
The validated tracker, built for pharmaceutical release decisions. Full sensor set including tilt, an ePaper display for accept-or-reject at receipt, and LTE Cat 1 with 10 m GPS accuracy.
The workhorse. Location, temperature, humidity, shock and light in one device, available in lithium and non-lithium models so it can be matched to an air freight requirement.
Location, temperature and light, without the rest of the sensor suite. For lanes that need real-time visibility and a temperature record but do not need to evidence humidity or handling.
| Solo Pro | Solo 5G | Solo Lite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sensors | Temperature, humidity, light, shock, motion, tilt | Temperature, humidity, light, shock, motion | Temperature, light, motion |
| Cellular | LTE Cat 1, global bands | LTE-M with 2G fallback | LTE-M with 2G fallback |
| Location accuracy | 10 m GPS / 50 m Wi-Fi / 500 m cellular | 20 m GPS / 50 m Wi-Fi / 500 m cellular | 50 m Wi-Fi / 500 m cellular |
| Temperature accuracy | ±0.5 °C | ±0.5 °C | ±0.5 °C |
| Calibration certificate | 3-point NIST-traceable, ISO 17025 | 3-point NIST-traceable, ISO 17025 | 3-point NIST-traceable, ISO 17025 |
| Display | ePaper — temperature, alarm status, MKT | None | None |
| External probes | Temperature beacon, dry ice and cryogenic probe | Temperature beacon, dry ice and cryogenic probe | Not supported |
| Operating temperature | −30 °C to 60 °C | −20 °C or −30 °C depending on model | −20 °C to 60 °C |
| Ingress protection | IP65 | IP67 | IP65 |
| Weight | 170–176 g | 100 g lithium / 159 g non-lithium | 90 g lithium / 140 g non-lithium |
| Battery | Rechargeable NiMH, USB-C | Rechargeable NiMH or Li-ion, micro USB | Rechargeable NiMH or Li-ion, USB-C |
| Reporting | All three: measurement 5 minutes to 12 hours, communication 5 minutes to 24 hours, both programmable, with immediate event-driven transmission on an excursion. Up to 25,000 records stored. | ||
Specifications as published by Tive at 27 August 2026. Battery life varies considerably with transmission interval — broadly thirty days at hourly reporting and ninety to a hundred and ten days at six- to twelve-hourly. Shelf life from the packed date is nine months to a year depending on chemistry, which matters if you intend to hold stock.
The reason to choose Tive over a label for deep cold. The probe goes into the shipment and the tracker stays outside it, so the electronics never sees the temperature it is measuring.
| Dry ice probe | Cryogenic probe | |
|---|---|---|
| Temperature range | −100 °C to 50 °C | −200 °C to −50 °C |
| Accuracy | ±0.5 °C | ±1.4 °C |
| Drift | Less than 0.1 °C after five years | Less than 0.1 °C after five years |
| Calibration points | −80 °C, −50 °C, 0 °C | −196 °C, −80 °C, −50 °C |
| Certificate | Digital copy available | Digital copy available |
| Length | 1 m overall, 75 mm tip | 1 m overall, 150 mm tip |
| Diameter | 4 mm, tip and cable | 4 mm, tip and cable |
| Ingress protection | IP65, including the junction | IP65, including the junction |
| Supported on | Solo 5G (TT-7000 / TT-7100) as published. Tive also lists probe support on Solo Pro — ask us to confirm the figures for that model before you specify it. | |
Probe specifications as published by Tive at 27 August 2026. Note the accuracy difference: ±0.5 °C on dry ice against ±1.4 °C cryogenic. If your acceptance criteria are tighter than the probe, the probe is your limit and it is better to know that before the shipment than during the deviation.
Tive's platform is a larger piece of the value than the device, particularly if you ship enough that nobody has time to watch a map.
One cloud system for creating shipments, setting thresholds, watching what is moving and pulling the record afterwards. Reporting is built for the argument you have to make later rather than the map you look at now.
Rules that decide what is worth telling a human about. The purpose is to reduce the number of alerts rather than increase it — a team that receives forty notifications a day stops reading them by the second week.
Tive offers a monitoring service where their team watches shipments around the clock and intervenes. Worth considering if your lanes cross time zones and nobody at your end is awake when the alert fires. Priced separately — ask.
Single units and small quantities are on the Butopia shop, with current prices, bulk savings and stock on each product page. Volume, probes, and the monitoring service are quoted rather than listed — book a call for those.
Buy the non-lithium one if there is any chance of it flying. The two Solo 5G models look identical on a shelf and are not interchangeable at an airport. The lithium TT-7000 is lighter and costs less, which is exactly why it gets ordered by mistake for an air lane. If you are not sure which your lanes need, ask before you order rather than after.
Everything else we sell — single-use and multi-use shipment loggers, temperature and humidity loggers, accessories — is on the Butopia shop too.
No, and it is worth knowing before somebody asks you in a meeting. Solo 5G is a product name. The device runs LTE-M with a fallback to 2G; the Solo Pro runs LTE Cat 1. Neither is a 5G NR radio. This is not a criticism — LTE-M is the right technology for a battery-powered tracker and 5G would be worse at it — but quote the band table rather than the product name if the question is technical.
The device itself operates down to −20 °C or −30 °C depending on model. For anything colder you use an external probe, with the tracker travelling outside the cold and only the probe tip inside it. The dry ice probe reads −100 °C to 50 °C at ±0.5 °C; the cryogenic probe reads −200 °C to −50 °C at ±1.4 °C. Both drift less than 0.1 °C over five years and come with a digital calibration certificate.
Watch the accuracy rather than the range. ±1.4 °C is a wide band if your acceptance criteria were written around a ±0.5 °C device, and that is a conversation to have before the shipment rather than during the deviation. Full probe specifications are in the table above.
You can. The batteries are rechargeable and Tive operates a returns programme, which on a fixed lane between two of your own sites makes the economics look completely different from a disposable label. On one-way shipments to customers, assume you will not see them again and price accordingly — which is often the argument for using a label on those lanes instead.
Tive ships non-lithium models tested to RTCA DO-160G specifically for air freight, and the Solo Pro is non-lithium. Lithium models exist and are lighter, and are the wrong choice if the lane involves an aircraft. Approvals differ by carrier and change, so we check before you book rather than after.
Broadly: if it is a parcel and the question is GDP evidence, the Sensos label. If it is a pallet, an aircraft, dry ice, or a release decision made at the receiving dock, Tive. If it is a repeat lane between your own sites, Tive, because you get the device back.
Plenty of people run both. The comparison page sets them side by side.
Every model is priced on the Butopia shop, with bulk savings shown on each product page. We have not copied the figures onto this page on purpose — prices move, promotions end and stock runs out, and a marketing page quoting yesterday's number is worse than one that sends you to the till.
What is not on the shop is volume pricing, probes, and the monitoring service. Those depend on lane and annual quantity, so tell us both and you will get a real figure rather than a range that turns out not to apply to you.
And where it goes, and who has to sign it off at the far end. We will tell you which device we would put on it.
