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How IoT is Transforming Cold Chain Management

23 February 2022

By: Rajesh


How IoT is Transforming Cold Chain Management?

Food

Do you know what is a Temperature Danger Zone for food? The temperature danger zone is the threshold (a temperature range) in which the bacteria in food can grow rapidly, and multiply themselves into two times in amount in about twenty minutes, the cycle repeats by itself every twenty minutes. 

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) sets the danger zone between 4-60 °C or 40–140°F as the range desirable for the food to stay out to keep itself safe. 

Pharmaceutical Cold chain management

Cold chain management in pharmacy, Traditionally there are temperature-sensitive life savings drugs that need to be maintained at a certain temperature range during transit and storage. The current pandemic also increased the need for safe and reliable temperature maintenance for drugs both at transit and storage. As per WHO Guidance, four categories of temperature ranges are suggested, Store Frozen – transported and stored at -4 °C or -20°F, for Heat Sensitive products that must not be frozen 2°-8°C (36°-46°F), Cool: Store between 8°-15°C (45°-59°F), Room temperature: Store at 15°-25°C (59°-77°F). Ambient temperature: Store at 15°-25°C (59°-77°F) or up to 30°C (86°F). 

How are we going to ensure that the temperature is always maintained at a desirable range as per the requirement of both the food and pharma industry? What kind of insights will be provided to the stakeholders? What about the visibility of near real-time temperature status? Thanks to the growth, available connectivity options and wide acceptance of IoT cold chain solutions.

All the above challenges can be addressed and handled easily by the cold chain monitoring solution available from Intellistride. 

Intellistride’s cold supply chain management system helps food and pharma companies monitor the cargo which consists of cold chains anytime anywhere. With the accurate available temperature monitoring, we ensure that your high-value consignments will be protected. Our solutions are also compliant with Biopharma GMP5 and IATA (2019) regulations. The solution detects when an asset is in flight ensuring the device automatically enters the sleep mode without manual intervention. As an additional feature, our solution ensures the data is never lost by having an option to store the data locally when there’s no available network connectivity. The solution automatically wakes up and posts the data to the server when it regains network connectivity and is out of the flight. 

While the asset is in transit monitoring safety and security is crucial. Along with a temperature sensor, our solution has built-in shock and light sensors with an accelerometer to monitor shocks and a light sensor that can detect if a package has been opened during transit. 

The solution comes with an option to choose from single-use or multi-use devices as per the requirement. The battery backup of the solution is about 10-15 days (depending on the network availability, and data transfer frequency) which is more than enough to track a shipment from source to destination. 

Adding a digital twin of the consignment or storage to the dashboard is simple. We follow the efficient yet subtle process of registering, tagging, and tracking

When comes to the dashboard the stakeholders will have near-real-time visibility of the assets while they are in transit or in a static location. They also have an option to get notifications via email and SMS alerts. The data transfer and notifications interval can be configured from the portal. The temperature excursions, light and shock violations and other events can also be saved and exported in the form of excel and PDF reports. 

With improved location accuracy and near real-time location status visibility from the dashboard the stakeholders are assured the assets are never lost. 

 

 

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