Smart Store

Unleash your store’s potential and optimize food safety

Danfoss Smart Store solutions help build the supermarkets of tomorrow by reducing costs, minimizing environmental impact, and finding a competitive advantage, while safeguarding food safety. Every day, we are dedicated to making your store smarter and more energy efficient.

Climate friendly and efficient heating and cooling represent a huge potential for supermarkets to reduce their operational costs while contributing to decarbonization and reducing food loss. Danfoss Smart Store solutions are constantly expanded and developed in close cooperation with the global food retail community and is already proven in more than 50,000 installations.

What's in it for you?

Use smart refrigeration control to reduce operating costs
Connect to the internet to eliminate food waste and reduce service costs
Sustainable refrigeration as a long-term decision
Integrate each store’s systems to gain economies of scale
Reduce energy prices by optimizing demand

Optimizing rail heat control for energy-efficient supermarkets

Rail heat control in supermarket HVAC-R systems is often overlooked, yet it holds significant potential for energy savings. Join our RETHINK Live event to explore how fine-tuning rail heat settings can lead to impactful energy reductions.

Journey towards a net-zero Supermarket

Discover our innovations for helping you cut energy costs, reduce emissions, and prepare your supermarket for a more energy-efficient future.

Explore the Smart Store ebook

Experience real supermarket efficiency

Real settings. Real solutions. Real results.

The need for energy efficiency is more real in food retail than anywhere else. You can say the same about the combined Smart Store supermarket and Danfoss Application Development Center in Nordborg — it’s as real as it gets. Featuring only existing cooling and heating technologies relevant to the food retail sector — in a fully operational supermarket — this is the place to experience real, relatable, and reliable supermarket efficiency in action.

Learning

Want to know more about our smart store solutions?

Webinars: Master energy-efficient retail with our webinar series

A series of webinars led by Danfoss experts, where you'll explore cutting-edge solutions for energy efficiency. These sessions offer practical insights, showcase best practices, and delve into real-world applications that can transform your approach to energy management. Join us to enhance your understanding and discover how these innovative solutions can be applied to achieve greater efficiency in various settings.

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Learning: Dive into Danfoss CO₂ solutions for food retail

The following session are available:

CO₂ Booster systems
HPV & GBV in Coolselector2/ Parallel IT system
Case/Cold Room control and components
Transcritical ejector systems. LP ejector
IT & HP ejector
LE & LE+HP ejector
Heat Recovery in CO₂ systems & HRU

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Videos: Get inspired with the Smart store playlist

Discover the various solutions we offer to enhance supermarket efficiency through our engaging short smart store videos. These videos guide you through the innovative applications within a smart supermarket, showcasing how our technologies work together to optimize operations. From energy management to reducing food loss, each solution is designed to create a more sustainable and efficient supermarket environment.

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Whitepaper: Smart Store learnings - Rail Heat Control

Read more about how supermarkets can achieve significant energy savings with proper rail heat control.

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Case: Getting supermarkets to net zero

With the world’s population expected to reach 10 billion people by 2050, sustainable food retail and storage are more important than ever.

Read full case story

Experience the Danfoss Smart Store — Virtually

Exclusive on demand tour of Danfoss Smart Store and Application Development Center.

Experience it here

Software

CO2 system optimization

Unlock new possibilities with Coolselector®2. Optimize your transcritical CO₂ systems with precision and efficiency—start designing today. This tool takes the full refrigeration system into account.

Download CoolSelector®2

Heat recovery tool

Try out the new heat recovery tool that helps you analyze your heat source and consumption. Looking at the heat source, not the full HVAC-R system, the tool links data with current energy prices for insights into your operation.

Try it here

Documents

Documents
Type	Name	Language	Valid for	Updated	Download	File type
Brochure	A complete portfolio of CO₂ refrigeration solutions	Polish	Poland	27 Jun, 2023	16.7 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Brochure_ADAP-KOOL_Evaporator_Controllers	Russian	Central Asia Unit	24 Apr, 2020	3.7 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Brochure_ADAP-KOOL_Evaporator_Controllers	Polish	Poland	30 May, 2023	4.6 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Brochure_ADAP-KOOL_Evaporator_Controllers	French	France	18 Mar, 2020	1.2 MB	.pdf
Catalog	Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications	Spanish, Castilian	Multiple	18 Jul, 2024	1.2 MB	.pdf
Catalog	Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications	English	Multiple	24 Mar, 2025	2.6 MB	.pdf
Catalog	Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications	French	France	18 Oct, 2024	1.4 MB	.pdf
Catalog	Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications	Dutch, Flemish	Netherlands	17 Apr, 2025	6.7 MB	.pdf
Catalog	Danfoss CO2 catalogue - Components and controls for CO2 applications	Italian	Italy	17 Jul, 2024	4.3 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: Evaporator Controllers	Italian	Italy	22 May, 2024	934.1 KB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: Evaporator Controllers	English	Multiple	15 Mar, 2024	1.9 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: Evaporator Controllers	Spanish, Castilian	Spain	24 Apr, 2024	2.9 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: Pack Controllers	English	Multiple	11 Jun, 2024	2.6 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Spanish, Castilian	Multiple	01 Feb, 2016	1.5 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Korean	Multiple	17 Mar, 2016	1.8 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Swedish	Multiple	01 Feb, 2016	1.5 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Finnish	Multiple	01 Feb, 2016	1.5 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	German	Multiple	01 Feb, 2016	1.6 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Russian	Multiple	02 Jul, 2019	6.8 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Danish	Multiple	17 Mar, 2016	1.5 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Italian	Multiple	17 Mar, 2016	1.5 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Chinese (CN)	Multiple	18 Mar, 2016	2.2 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Overview brochure: System Managers (Global)	Portuguese	Multiple	01 Feb, 2016	1.6 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions	Italian	Italy	12 Dec, 2023	16.5 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions	Spanish, Castilian	Spain	09 Jan, 2024	25.4 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special ebrochure for Food Retail	English	Multiple	19 Apr, 2024	15.9 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail	Ukrainian	Ukraine	20 Jun, 2023	14.6 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail	French	Multiple	03 Jul, 2018	3.4 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail	German	Multiple	14 Jun, 2023	11.7 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Save energy and protect the environment with CO2 solutions - Special version for Food Retail	French	France	04 Aug, 2022	11.7 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Smart Store Brochure	English	Multiple	10 Mar, 2025	14.2 MB	.pdf

Case studies

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KrioFrost Creates Russia’s Largest Transcritical CO2 Hypermarket System Using Danfoss Solutions

Globus had an ambitious target: to open the new 25,000 square meter hypermarket using transcritical CO₂ for its refrigeration and heating. Danfoss helped KrioFrost—a Moscow-based refrigeration equipment producer and installer—to equip Globus’ huge new store in the Moscow suburb of Salaryevo with the company’s first transcritical CO₂ booster refrigeration system.
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The Danfoss Multi Ejector range for CO2 refrigeration: design, applications and benefits

Danfoss offers a complete portfolio of gas and liquid ejectors that provide significant benefits in CO₂ refrigeration applications. Here we take a closer look at these offerings: the Multi Ejector Low Pressure (LP), the Multi Ejector High Pressure (HP), and the Liquid Ejector (LE). All three ejector products are only available as a complete Multi Ejector Solution™ where the ejector is bundled with the AK-PC 782A pack controller to provide the robust system controls necessary for efficient and reliable operation.
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Selecting the right evaporator injection algorithm makes a world of difference

Danfoss has pioneered two control algorithms that help you achieve this balance. The Minimum Stable Superheat (MSS) algorithm has been an important part of the Danfoss ADAP-KOOL^® offering for years and is still the ideal choice for adaptive evaporator control for dry expansion. Now Danfoss introduces the next generation: Adaptive Liquid Control (ALC).
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Intelligent and adaptive control in transcritical CO2 refrigeration

Intelligent control solutions are important for achieving reliable, optimized operation and realizing financial savings and environmental
benefits in your transcritical CO₂ refrigeration solution.
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Danfoss helps transform supermarkets into smart stores for demand response

With an IoT-enabled demand response program utilizing Danfoss controllers and system managers, supermarket chain Giant Eagle is able to enhance food safety, detect malfunctioning equipment and reduce costly energy waste.
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Russia’s first transcritical CO₂ hypermarket

In Voskresensk, Russian retailer Magnit has opened the first hypermarket in Russia using a transcritical booster refrigeration system with carbon dioxide (CO₂) — an eco-friendly and natural refrigerant.

Articles

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The secret behind Danfoss adaptive defrost

Before digging into the secret of Danfoss adaptive defrost, let’s first take a look at the most common methods of defrosting refrigerated display cases, and why they’re necessary.

Related applications

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Condition monitoring of HVAC/R systems

In air flow and indoor air quality-related applications, condition monitoring functionality improves system uptime and competitiveness by preventing issues before they occur.