MaxLinc NFC App
Scan your NFC loggers directly to the cloud. Download the official app for your device.
This guide is for our NFC single-use temperature logger, a low-cost, disposable data logger for shipments that you read with this free app on an iPhone or Android phone instead of a USB cable and a PC. It suits one-way parcels and pallets in cold-chain shipping.
1. Hardware Activation
Action: Press the power button 3 times within 2 seconds.
Confirmation: A red flash lasting 3 seconds confirms the tag is activated.
Delay: As standard, the tag waits 10 minutes before taking the first reading - giving you time to place it in its final location, like refrigerated transport. A free custom setup can shorten, lengthen or remove this delay.
Specs: As standard, the tag captures temperature every 10 minutes and holds 4,000 records (about 4 weeks), then stops recording when full. The battery lasts about 1 year after activation. A free custom setup, chosen on the product page and programmed by MaxLinc in Canada, can set any interval from 1 minute to 24 hours, add min/max alarm limits with a red alarm LED, or use continuous mode, which overwrites the oldest readings; scan it at least once per memory cycle and the cloud keeps every reading. Unused tags keep for about five years before activation.
3. Scanning Process
Place the tag landscape on a flat surface like a table.
iPhone Flow
Place the top edge of the iPhone over the tag with a few centimeters of overlap, then press the Start Scanning button.
Android Flow
The app automatically enters Scan Mode. Place the top half of the phone over the tag - best placed about 2 cm (1 inch) below the top of the phone.
Reading Rules
Do not move the phone or tag. A progress bar shows the percentage of logs extracted. If disrupted, repeat the process.
2. First-Time App Setup
Settings: Select your language (English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish or Portuguese) and a dark or light theme. The app runs on an iPhone with iOS 16 or later, or an Android phone with NFC and Android 8.0 or later.
Cloud Link: Enter a valid email address already registered on your free MaxLinc cloud account.
Simplicity: No login or password is required in the mobile app - the email simply routes scanned data to the cloud. The person scanning does not need to be the account owner.
Security: Each phone uploads with its own private key. The first time a phone is set to your account email, the account owner gets an email naming it, with a link to stop readings from that phone. A phone can only send readings; it never opens the account.
4. Cloud Reporting
Sync: Once the reading reaches 100%, assign an optional name to the sensor and press Upload to send data to the cloud. Make sure your phone is connected to the internet. If any reading in the trip is outside your alarm limits, everyone the account is shared with gets an email and a push notification as soon as it uploads.
On the phone: After the upload the phone shows the trip's report: a green OK or a red Out of range against the tag's alarm limits (if any were set), the chart, the minimum, maximum and average with their times, and every reading. Share it on the spot as a PDF or a CSV file for Excel. Tap Done when finished: nothing stays on the phone.
Reports: To view data, the account owner, or anyone the account is shared with, logs into app.maxlinc.com and opens the sensor card: chart, min/avg/max statistics and the scan location on a map. Under Advanced Reports, export PDF or Excel reports for transport, vaccine temperature, or daily averages over any interval. All of it is free, with no subscription.
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