Research Article
Policy-enabled Internet of Things Deployable Platforms for Vaccine Cold Chains
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258018, author={Ioannis Daskalopoulos and Mohamed Ahmed and Stephen Hailes and George Roussos and Tony Delamothe and Jagun Kwon and Leo Brown}, title={Policy-enabled Internet of Things Deployable Platforms for Vaccine Cold Chains}, proceedings={1st Workshop on Cloud and Server Support for Wearable Computing}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={CSSWEARABLE}, year={2014}, month={11}, keywords={vaccine cold-chain context adaptive behaviour modes of operation internet of things temperature monitoring}, doi={10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258018} }- Ioannis Daskalopoulos
Mohamed Ahmed
Stephen Hailes
George Roussos
Tony Delamothe
Jagun Kwon
Leo Brown
Year: 2014
Policy-enabled Internet of Things Deployable Platforms for Vaccine Cold Chains
CSSWEARABLE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258018
Abstract
Cost effectiveness is critical to the success of immunisation programmes in developing countries. Being able to continuously, flexibly and accurately monitor the vaccine supply chain can help reduce the cost of operating it, and savings can be applied to deliver further resources to those that need them. In this paper, we present a Cloud-based continuous monitoring application for supervising the operation of the vaccine supply chain. The application utilises Internet of Things (IoT) location-aware platforms for data harvesting.
Our contribution to this area is the design and development of a prototype continuous monitoring device capable of adapting its behaviour according to both the contexts it encounters as it passes along the vaccine supply chain and the constraints that it is given. Our prototype is sufficiently flexible to operate at different points in the supply chain, and can be used to track shipments and provide real-time remote monitoring.