Project description
Using smart technology to ensure the quality of transported goods
For the pharmaceutical and food logistics industries, temperature control during transport is vitally important. Inadequate temperature control is responsible for significant financial loses annually across these industries, since products exposed to temperature extremes can be rendered useless or even dangerous to consumers. Existing solutions rely on costly, complicated methods with significant drawbacks. The EU-funded Svalinn project is developing a cutting-edge automated temperature logger with the capacity to provide a full temperature and location log for every shipment throughout its journey. The goal is to significantly reduce losses during transport and ensure products reach consumers intact.
Objective
The pharma and food logistics sectors lose sector lose €31.2bn and €27.6bn a year respectively through poor temperature control in the while in transport. Excessive heat or cold during transit can degrade pharmaceuticals or render them useless, and make highly perishable foods inedible or potentially hazardous for consumers.
Logistics companies invest €33bn each year in IoT technologies for temperature monitoring. But current solutions still use costly and cumbersome data logging technologies, with limited or no data analytics capacity, low automation and irregular RFID communication.
Svalinn is a automatic temperature logger for land, sea and air logistics. It gives a full temperature and geolocation log on each package or shipment from the start to the end of the transit, with programmable intervals and temperature alert thresholds.
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H2020-EC - Horizon 2020 Framework Programme
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IA - Innovation action
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(opens in new window) H2020-EIC-FTI-2018-2020
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1833 Mo I Rana
Norway
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