Keg Essentials spent over two years of its four-year existence and tens of thousands of dollars to Patent its Monitoring System and did so before raising one dollar or selling one system. The reason: Generally speaking, anything not patented can be copied, borrowed, or manufactured by anyone. The Company's Patent No. 11,209,300 was issued on December 28, 2021, essentially giving Keg Essentials 20-year monopoly-like protections. It prohibits other individuals or companies from making, using, or selling the design without authorization.
U.S. Patent No. 11,209,3001
Introducing Keg Sentry™
The industry's first non-software-based Draft Beer Monitoring System designed to provide highly accurate full-time monitoring of draft beer poured from tapped kegs.
Keg Sentry Makes Draft Beer Inventory as Simple as Cans and Bottled Beer
A simple, cost-effective system that provides an alternative to inaccurate weekly or monthly periodic inventory methods using scales or shaking and estimating remaining drafts in kegs.
How Simple is Keg Sentry to Operate - It Only has One Push-Button Switch
The Eight Keg Monitoring Unit shown below displays the number of US pints left in Eight 124-pint kegs. As with cans or bottled beer, three steps are required for a shift inventory. First, record the amount of draft left in each keg at the beginning and end of each shift. Second, record the difference in the two measurements as BEER POURED in the bar's Point-of-Sale (POS) system, and lastly, compare the amount of BEER POURED to the amount of BEER SOLD in the POS System. Any difference in the two measurements indicates over or underpours during the shift which can now be immediately corrected before any significant loss of revenue can occur.
Comparing Keg Sentry to Cloud-based Monitoring Systems
Keg Sentry is a modularized system. Each keg has a dedicated Monitor Module connected to a companion Flow Sensor in the keg cooler. This design principle, known as NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE (NSPOF) asserts that if one Monitor Module fails, the failure of that one tap will not affect any other taps, therefore, only one action is required: Replace the failed Monitor Module with a spare. Because of its modular design, there is no limit to the number of taps Keg Sentry can monitor.
Large bars, sports and event arenas, and hotels typically maintain cloud-based draft beer monitoring systems. Unlike Keg Sentry, cloud-based systems have hundreds of SINGLE POINTS OF FAILURE (SPOF), which can render the entire system inoperable. An outage typically results in hours spent on the telephone with multiple help desks, requiring full-time IT support. Bottom line: The cost of ownership of cloud-based systems is just too high for most bars.
Keg Sentry is an Autonomous System: It is completely self-contained and doesn't require information from any other system to operate.