IOT to Streamline COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

Use of GPS, RFID, and Temperature Sensors to ensure all strict supply chain requirements are met.

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Canadian Medical Systems offers a System integrator with roots in process improvement consultancy. We specialize in innovative AutoID, RFID and locating solutions.

This System integrator has evolved from a technology creation company to a hands-on AutoID and machine vision integrator.

We combine a thorough understanding of business processes and IT-systems with deep, extensive technical knowledge of a large variety of AutoID, RFID and locating technologies

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Application

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COVID-19 Vaccine Logistics Chain Reliability and Compliance​

With such cold chain requirements, nothing is more important than real-time monitoring and alerting. This ensures the temperature requirements are met throughout the supply chain. To avoid waste, this makes sure that at the me of usage, the medical facilities can apply First IN, First OUT (FIFO).

–70°C for up to 6 Months

After thawing, the vaccine can be refrigerated between
2 to 8 °C for 5 days

–20° for up to 6 Months

After thawing, the vaccine can be refrigerated between
2 to 8 °C for 30 days

Distribution

Key Components

Smart Dry ICE Box

	Precise Temperature Sensors
	RFID for real-time visibility
	IOT Platform with real-time data analytics and Dynamic rule engine

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Proposed Solution for Local Vaccine Distribution (pt. 1)​

• As tags are taken out of the supplier Packing an RFID label is attached to the Pizza Trays.
• An RFID handheld with scan function is used for a quick tag association. This can be done via scan-print function as well.
• This scans the QR code on the tray. All the product details appear on the screen and the user will then scan the RFID tag and stick the tag to the box.
• The unique RFID tag number is then pushed to the back end with all product details.

Tag Association

Packing in SMART BOX

Proposed Solution for Local Vaccine Distribution​ (pt. 2)

• An order list is send to the handheld.
• The software creats a pick list based on production date data as well as the time received to apply FIFO.
• We scan the RFID tag on the smart BOX and assign the trays to the box.
• Once the items are placed in the box an electronic seal is used to ensure we log when the box was opened.
• All times and dates are pushed to the IOT platform.

Secure Data Flow

Logistics

• The Trucks are equipped with an IOT gateway with a Bluetooth receiver that communicates with the data logger. It collects the data and pushes the data along with its own GPS location to our IOT platform.
• To any temperature fluctuation beyond the limit, an alert will be sent to the server.
• The solution provides a real time inventory of the boxes when they were loaded and unloaded with historical data.

Thawing / Storage and Usage

Item-Chain Platform Layers

7

Business Value

Smart Applications

Retail Operations, Supply Chain, Global Item Chain Management

6

Items, People and Processes

Item-Level Product Movements, Automation, Tasks, Smart Events

5

Fast Data and Big Data

Data Analysis

Analytics & Reporting Feature Extraction, Machine Learning

4

Data Ingestion

Complex Event Processing Rules 

3

Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure

High Availability, PaaS, Containers

2

Fog

Connectivity and Edge Computing

M2M, Machine Vision, Integration, Blockchain and Smart Contracts

1

Edge

Things

Devices, Sensors, Low-Level Events

RAK Ceramics Back End Infrastructure

IOT Platform Scalability

Distributed Scaling & Failover Strategies by Layer

1

Web Services

Load Balanced Sessions

2

SQL Tenant Configurations

Replication Clusters w/ SQL DBs

3

NoSQL Timeseries

Replication Clusters w/ NoSQL DBs

4

Stream Processing & CEP

Clustered Vilix Functions & CEP Rules

5

Distributed Messaging

Clustered Broker & Stream Applications

6

Business Connectors

Clustered loT Brokers

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