Is your draught system dialed in? Just 5°F too warm or 5 psi out of balance turns a clean pour into foam. Settings drift over time, quietly costing you product, service speed, and repeat customers.
Barkeep Sensors watch temperature, pressure, and pump health around the clock. Set thresholds in minutes, and the moment something drifts your whole team gets notified on the device they already carry.
Hardware you can actually buy without a sales call.
Is your draught system dialed in? Just 5°F too warm or 5 psi out of balance turns a clean pour into foam. Settings drift over time, quietly costing you product, service speed, and repeat customers.
Barkeep Sensors watch temperature, pressure, and pump health around the clock. Set thresholds in minutes, and the moment something drifts your whole team gets notified on the device they already carry.
Hardware you can actually buy without a sales call.
Sensors report wirelessly to a gateway, the gateway reaches the cloud, and the cloud reaches you via your phone or web browser.
Wireless LoRa sensors report temperature, pressure, and vibration every 10 minutes, penetrating stainless steel coolers, kegerators, basements, and walls. 10+ year battery life, or optional USB-C power.
A single Barkeep gateway manages up to 128 sensors at up to 500m range, and reports out over WiFi or cellular.
Readings are checked against your limits around the clock, all day and night.
The moment something drifts, an alert lands on your phone, the web app, and your team.
Setup is designed for non-technical staff, not installers. Power on the gateway, install the sensors where they belong, and set your thresholds: you are up and running in minutes, and anyone on your team can do it.
Long-life LiSOCl₂ cells last a decade or more. Install it and forget it, with no constant battery swaps.
Our custom point-to-point LoRa protocol penetrates walk-in coolers, basements, and harsh RF environments where WiFi and Bluetooth give out, up to 500 meters from the gateway.
Order sensors and gateways straight from our store, no distributors or middlemen in between.
Push, SMS, and email to you and your staff, in plain language: what it reads, and what it should be.
Detect temperature, pressure, and vibration anomalies across your system, the early signs of incorrect settings, drifting calibration, or failing equipment.
LoRa traffic is encrypted to keep your readings safe and resistant to tampering. No ads, no tracking, no data sale.
The gateway reports over WiFi or cellular, so one dropped connection is not a blind spot.
Invite staff with the right access, full-access or view-only, route alerts to the right manager, and manage multiple gateways and organizations from a single account.
We're two brothers united by a love for craft beer and a shared obsession with delivering quality products and experiences. One of us spent years designing best-in-class electronics; the other has spent his career keeping beverage systems clean and pouring right. Barkeep Sensors is what happens when those worlds meet: a full-stack solution that assures every customer experiences your beer exactly the way you intended.
Zack owns Mule Labs and leads Barkeep’s hardware, firmware, software, and IoT infrastructure design. A former Tesla electronic design engineer who worked on the Optimus robot, he holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and brings 10 years of experience designing best-in-class industrial and consumer electronics for startups and Fortune 100 companies. He channels that background into sensor hardware that is rugged, reliable, and built to live in a working bar.
Nick owns Cleveland Beer Line Cleaning LLC and brings 13 years in beverage dispensing and sanitation to Barkeep, on top of 25 years in the hydraulics and pneumatics industry. With a BS in Biochemistry focused on microbiology, he understands exactly how temperature, pressure, and line hygiene make or break a pour, and he grounds the product in the real-world realities of keeping draught systems clean and in spec.
Barkeep started with a simple ask: Nick wanted a way to track pressure and temperature from his phone for his clients, so he and his technicians could service their systems better.
We built a prototype device that could sense pressure and push its readings up to the internet. The goal was simple, get real data flowing so we could start learning what actually matters.
We partnered with three local establishments to put the sensors into real bars and get honest feedback from the people using them, working out firmware kinks along the way. That deployment has now run for over a year with 99.999% uptime.
With a year of field data and early adopter feedback in hand, we started work on production-intent designs. We pivoted to our own custom LoRa protocol for its range, low power, and ability to penetrate walls and coolers, then engineered gateways and sensors targeting 10-year battery life and over 500m of range while reporting a sample every 10 minutes.
We built out the front end and back end for a full-stack IoT platform, spanning web, Android, and iOS apps. Every screen is tuned to be genuinely useful whether you run a single taproom or a large operation, and whether you are the owner, an employee, or a beverage technician.
You can see it for yourself right now, no sign-up required, in our live web app demo.
We took on the full electronic and mechanical design for production-intent custom PCBAs and enclosures, engineering hardware that is manufacturable at scale and rugged enough to live in a working bar for years.
We put engineering samples of the production-intent design through real-world testing and validation, confirming that range, battery life, and accuracy hold up under the same conditions our customers face every day.
We are in the final phases of launching to the public, wrapping up the non-engineering details that go into bringing a product to market: packaging, checkout, legal, and everything in between. In the meantime, we are still accepting early adopters to put production-intent hardware to work in their venues.
The shop is not open to the public just yet, but we are still accepting early adopters. Tell us about your venue and we'll be in touch. If you're on a desktop, you can also take our web app demo for a spin.
Questions? Email zack@barkeepsensors.com.
