Some 240 tonnes of food spoils during transit and in storage every year, but using mobile to track trucks and monitor the temperature of storage facilities could save enough food to feed 40 million people in 2017 - equivalent to the entire population of Kenya - it said.

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Cold-storage-device maker Sensitech attached Ember nodes to temperature gauges on refrigerated trucks.

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Many others like him live in subterranean digs under Moscow's markets, or in boiler and storage rooms, jerry-rigging electric heaters when the temperature falls.

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The 2013 Nissan LEAF is offered in three well-equipped models, the LEAF S, LEAF SV and LEAF SL. Standard features include a 6-way manual driver's seat, 4-way manual front passenger's seat, trip computer (instant and average energy consumption, driving time, outside temperature and autonomy range), Automatic Temperature Control (ATC), center console storage and 3.6 kW onboard charger.

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