What Hanwell Solutions does

Hanwell Solutions is a UK-based provider of continuous environmental monitoring systems, headquartered in Letchworth with a headcount of 51-100 employees. Founded in 2007, the company designs and sells IoT-enabled monitoring hardware and software that track a wide range of parameters—including temperature, CO2, humidity, pressure, light, UV, flood, airflow, shock, vibration, and impact—for regulated and quality-sensitive environments. Its core platform provides 24/7 real-time monitoring with dedicated alarms and action cards when environmental conditions deviate from set thresholds, with full FDA compliance and data integrity for pharmaceutical and healthcare applications.

The company serves five primary verticals: Pharmaceutical and Biotech, Healthcare, Food Industry, Industrial, and Heritage. Each vertical has dedicated solution configurations addressing sector-specific use cases such as cold chain compliance for food, chamber and stability monitoring for pharma, blood bank and medicine transport monitoring for healthcare, condition surveillance for industrial complexes, and conservation-grade monitoring for museums and archives. Hanwell's go-to-market is an enterprise field sales motion targeting B2B buyers, with direct consultation and free demo requests as the primary conversion mechanism. Revenue is generated through hardware sales of monitoring systems supplemented by ongoing professional services and technical support.

In October 2025, Hanwell was fully merged into Ellab A/S, a Danish continuous monitoring specialist. The merger consolidates Hanwell's UK vertical expertise and installed base under Ellab's global portfolio, with existing customers continuing to receive support through Ellab's infrastructure. UK heritage product distribution is handled through a master distributor arrangement with Gwentec, which has over a decade of experience supplying Hanwell Pro products. Following the merger, Hanwell's website redirects key services and offerings to ellab.com.

Name

Hanwell Solutions

Legal name

Ellab A/S

Website

https://hanwell.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Acquired

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Hanwell Solutions provides IoT-enabled continuous environmental monitoring systems for temperature, humidity, CO2, and other parameters across pharmaceutical, healthcare, food, industrial, and heritage sectors. Fully merged into Ellab A/S in October 2025.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Letchworth

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Environmental Monitoring Systems: Sale of continuous environmental monitoring hardware and software systems for temperature-sensitive applications across pharmaceutical, healthcare, food, industrial, and heritage sectors
2. Monitoring Solutions and Support: Ongoing support services for monitoring systems, including technical assistance and product-related queries

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Hanwell Solutions provides wireless continuous environmental monitoring systems that track parameters such as temperature, CO2, humidity, pressure, light, UV, airflow, flood, shock, vibration, and impact on a 24/7 basis. The systems include dedicated alarms and action cards and are purpose-built for regulated industries including pharmaceutical, healthcare, food, industrial, and heritage sectors with FDA-compliant data integrity.

Product overview

Hanwell Solutions, now merged into Ellab, offers a unified continuous environmental monitoring platform with specialized solutions across five industry verticals: Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Food, Industrial, and Heritage. The core offering consists of 24/7 environmental monitoring systems that track parameters including temperature, CO2, humidity, pressure, light & UV, airflow, flood, shock & vibration, and impact. Each industry solution provides sector-specific monitoring capabilities tailored to regulatory compliance requirements, with pharmaceutical and healthcare solutions emphasizing FDA compliance and data integrity for sensitive products like vaccines, medicines, and biological samples.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Continuous Environmental Monitoring Solutions 24/7 wireless environmental monitoring systems designed to protect sensitive products and materials from unexpected changes in conditions such as temperature, CO2, humidity, pressure, and light exposure. Includes dedicated alarms, action cards, complete data integrity, and FDA compliance.
• Pharmaceutical Monitoring Continuous monitoring solution for pharmaceutical and biotech applications covering CTU/TCUs, warehouses, stability and environmental chambers, incubators, manufacturing facilities, and laboratories with FDA compliance and full data integrity.
• Healthcare Monitoring Environmental monitoring for hospitals, clinics, and healthcare facilities covering fridges, freezers, blood banks, medicine and blood transport, laboratories, and storage areas to ensure patient and lab safety.
• Food Industry Monitoring Temperature and environmental monitoring across the entire food cold chain including refrigerators, freezers, cold rooms, dry storage, and refrigerated transport to ensure food quality, freshness, and regulatory compliance.
• Industrial Monitoring Environmental monitoring for industrial storage and transit applications including packing facilities, transportation and cargo, warehouses, plants, and buildings to reduce risk and protect products, conditions, and staff.
• Heritage Monitoring Discreet environmental monitoring and control solutions for museums, galleries, libraries, archives, rare document collections, antique collections, exhibition halls, and cultural relics.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Ellab A/ScoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 October 2025Hanwell has been fully merged into Ellab A/S as part of Ellab's efforts to focus on growing and investing in continuous monitoring. The merger allows better development of the monitoring portfolio together. Existing Hanwell customers continue to be fully supported with the same reliable solutions and hands-on support.
• GwenteccoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGwentec has been appointed as the master distributor for Hanwell Heritage products in the UK. This partnership leverages Gwentec's expertise in designing, building, installing, and servicing control panels, which is crucial in the heritage industry. Gwentec provides technical assistance, product queries, and order placement for UK heritage customers at [email protected]. They have over 10 years of experience supplying and installing Hanwell Pro products.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Sensitech (Carrier): Sensitech, a Carrier company, provides cold chain visibility and temperature monitoring solutions for pharma and food industries. Its end-to-end tracking, data loggers, and analytics platform directly compete with Hanwell's continuous monitoring offering for cold chain compliance.
• Berlinger & Co. Berlinger specializes in temperature monitoring solutions for the pharmaceutical cold chain, including single-use and reusable data loggers and continuous monitoring systems. It is a direct peer in pharma-compliant temperature monitoring and FDA-validated data integrity.
• Rotronic (Process Sensing Technologies): Rotronic manufactures high-precision humidity and temperature measurement instruments and monitoring systems for pharma, food, and industrial applications. It overlaps with Hanwell on humidity and temperature data loggers and probes for regulated industries.
• Ellab A/S: Ellab A/S is Hanwell's parent company and a direct competitor in wireless thermal validation and continuous monitoring for pharma, healthcare, and food. The two offered overlapping product lines pre-merger and now operate as one combined portfolio across similar customers and use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Testo: Testo is a global manufacturer of measurement instrumentation including data loggers and wireless monitoring for temperature, humidity, and pressure. Its Saveris line competes with Hanwell in pharma and food monitoring, with broader geographic reach and a larger product catalog.
• Vaisala: Vaisala is a global leader in environmental and industrial measurement, offering continuous monitoring systems for temperature, humidity, CO2, and pressure across pharma, healthcare, and food. It directly overlaps with Hanwell's multi-parameter monitoring value proposition but serves a much broader customer base with deeper resources.

Emerging players

• Onset Computer Corporation (HOBO): Onset's HOBO data loggers and wireless sensors monitor temperature, humidity, and other environmental parameters for research, building, and industrial applications. It competes with Hanwell on temperature and humidity monitoring, particularly in lower-end and research-oriented deployments.
• SensoScientific: SensoScientific provides wireless environmental monitoring solutions for temperature, humidity, and differential pressure across pharma, healthcare, and food industries. It is a niche, FDA-compliant competitor comparable in scale and target verticals to Hanwell's pharma/healthcare monitoring offering.
• Monnit Corporation: Monnit offers IoT wireless sensors and remote monitoring solutions for temperature, humidity, and environmental conditions across commercial and industrial use cases. It is comparable as a wireless multi-parameter monitoring platform though more horizontal and less pharma/FDA-specialized than Hanwell.
• T&D Corporation: T&D Corporation produces wireless data loggers for temperature, humidity, voltage, and other environmental parameters, widely used in pharma, food, and research. It is comparable as a wireless monitoring platform with similar parameter breadth and data integrity capabilities to Hanwell.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses2 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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