4Warn · RF & GSM asset monitoring

Know the moment
something goes wrong.

4Warn watches your critical assets onsite — generators, cold rooms, server rooms, diesel tanks and more — relays the signal by RF to our servers, and raises the alarm by SMS, Telegram, email or pager the instant a reading breaches its limits.

  • Own RF network
  • 24/7 alerting
  • Compliance reporting
Get in touch

Let’s protect what matters.

Tell us what you’d like to monitor and we’ll come back to you with the right approach — and a quote.

24/7Live monitoring & alerts
RF + GSMDual connectivity
In-houseHardware & support
FullReporting & graphs
What we monitor

One platform for every critical asset

If it has a temperature, a level, a voltage or a state we can watch, 4Warn can keep track of it — using RF or GSM units depending on what suits the site.

Generators

Run status, mains-fail events and readiness of standby plant, so you know it will start when you need it.

Server rooms

Temperature, humidity and power conditions in comms and server rooms — caught before hardware suffers.

Diesel & fuel tanks

Live fuel levels and drop alerts — spot theft, leaks or low reserves before they leave you stranded.

Fridges & cold rooms

Scheduled temperature logging with automatic weekly graphs — the audit trail you need to stay compliant.

Air conditioning

Supply-air temperature and run status — know the instant cooling fails in a critical space.

Relays & switching

Open/closed states and switching events for pumps, doors, alarms and any dry-contact signal.

BMS systems

Integrate with building management systems to surface faults and readings on one shared dashboard.

…and more

We monitor a wide variety of assets. If you can measure it, talk to us — chances are we can watch it.

How it works

Monitor. Transmit. Alarm.

A simple, reliable chain — from the equipment on your site, over RF to our servers, to the alarm in your hand.

01

Monitor onsite

Rugged units read temperature, level, voltage, run status and relay states directly on your assets, around the clock.

02

Transmit by RF

The signal is sent by Radio Frequency (RF) across our network to our servers — independent of the mobile carriers.

03

Raise the alarm

The moment a reading breaches its limits, our servers send the alarm by SMS, Telegram, email or pager — with full reporting available.

Using our GSM units? They log readings and plot them into graphs over time — and you can query a unit at any moment to pull the current onsite temperature.

Control-room systems

Alarm Monitoring Systems, built in-house

We design and build our own Alarm Monitoring Systems (AMS) and supply them to control rooms — the system operators sit in front of to receive, display and action alarms as they come in.

Rent it, or own it outright

Because we build the AMS ourselves, you choose how you take it on — and we support and adapt it either way, without waiting on a third-party vendor.

Rental

Rent monthly

Get a control room running without the capital outlay, with support included.

Purchase

Buy outright

Own the system, with our in-house team on hand for support and changes.

Talk to us about an AMS
Who runs on it
  • Armed response companies

    Signals from client sites land in the control room and get actioned by the operator on duty.

  • Mines

    Plant and safety alarms across a large site, consolidated onto one control-room view.

  • Large industrial parks

    Many tenants, many alarm points — monitored centrally instead of site by site.

Our own armed response company 4Warn Security Uses the 4Warn network to keep watch over its clients — visit 4warnsecurity.co.za
Cold-chain compliance

Temperature compliance, handled.

Our GSM units log temperatures over time and plot them into clear graphs — like the real 7-day vaccine-fridge report shown here. Query a unit whenever you like to read the current onsite temperature, and lean on full reporting to stay compliant with health and food-safety regulations — without anyone writing down a single reading.

  • Continuous temperature logging & graphing
  • Query current onsite temps on demand
  • High- and low-limit alarms via SMS, Telegram, email or pager
  • Full reporting for auditors — built & supported in-house
Main Store Vaccine 7-day period
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100% in range this period Graph provided by 4Warn
Why 4Warn

Built to catch problems before they cost you

Our own RF network

Where our RF coverage reaches, you’re not dependent on a single mobile carrier — more resilience, fewer blind spots.

RF and GSM

Every site is different. We choose the connectivity that gives the most reliable link for each location.

In-house hardware

We design and build our own units — including the fridge temperature logger — so we can support and adapt them.

Compliance-ready reporting

Full reporting and temperature graphs give you an audit trail regulators accept, with no manual logbooks to keep.

Alarms, your way

SMS, Telegram, email or pager the moment something breaches its limits — so the right person acts, not a dashboard nobody watches.

Local support

A South African team that understands local conditions, load-shedding realities and your regulatory environment.

About us

Messaging Software Solutions

Messaging Software Solutions helps businesses protect their most important equipment through remote monitoring and timely alerting. Our 4Warn platform combines our own RF network, GSM connectivity and in-house hardware to watch a wide variety of assets — from generators and diesel tanks to cold rooms, server rooms, aircons, relays and BMS systems.

Alongside 4Warn we build our own Alarm Monitoring Systems (AMS) for control rooms, available to rent or buy outright, and already in use by armed response companies, mines and large industrial parks.

The principle is simple: the sooner you know about a problem, the cheaper and easier it is to fix. We turn quiet failures — a warming fridge, a generator that won’t start, a draining fuel tank — into an alert in your hand, and into the records you need to stay compliant.

4Warn

Our remote monitoring & alerting platform

RF + GSM

Connectivity matched to each site

AMS

Control-room alarm monitoring — rent or buy