Smart device development for cold chain control in biological materials

Abstract

In Mexico, controlling and monitoring the cold chain in vaccines is one of the biggest problems nowadays. Vaccines are biological products sensitive to variations in light, humidity, time, and mainly temperature. When some of those parameters get lost because of an external situation, consequently, these vaccines lose their functionality, that is why is important a portable device adapted to the design is developed according to the software-hardware prototype, because of this, different variations in those vaccines can be monitored, temperature and humidity for example. According to this, is possible to transfer biological samples and medicines, without forgetting of course to apply the rules in handling the control of the cold chain, guaranteeing the safety of those products. The purpose of this is prevent that the cold chain in medicines and biological samples within health institutions get lost. This make possible to achieve a better control and monitoring applying a versatile system, which is based according to the norms and safety standards.