DIGITAL HEALTH
“ We help customers by providing the telecommunications and the engineer to help develop their solution together ”
ERIK BRENNEIS IOT DIRECTOR AT VODAFONE , VODAFONE
Vaccinations Perhaps the area where IoT is having the most significant impact right now is in the global vaccine distribution effort . Brenneis says there are three key needs that IoT can solve :
• Tracking the vaccines .
• Monitoring the conditions in which they are stored throughout their journey .
• Ensuring a visible supply chain to monitor demand .
In order to be effective , the Pfizer- BioNTech vaccine needs to be kept at -70C . That ’ s not an easy feat given that it needs to travel both on land and by air from centres in the United States , Germany and Belgium , with possible storage time in distribution centres before being delivered to a vaccination site . Controlant , a specialist cold chain distribution company based in Iceland , works with Pfizer to manage the temperature of the supply chain , using Vodafone sims inside all their devices . All GPS data is transmitted via these sims , including temperature and humidity .
74 June 2021