Smart Container Design for Transporting Virus Sample in Remote Areas

Abstract

Handling COVID-19 pandemic requires comprehensive approach, one of which is the process of sending viral samples of COVID-19 suspects. Indonesia is an archipelagic country with many remote areas that lack standard laboratory facilities for COVID-19 confirmation, so sample transportation is necessary. The transportation method currently used is by using a cool box with ice packs to maintain stable temperature of 2-8°C. However, this method cannot ensure temperature stability in the cool box if there is delay in transportation. Therefore, a solution is proposed by making smart container for transporting viral samples called KONTRAVIR. KONTRAVIR is equipped with an electronic cooler which able to set desired stable temperature and maintained it within required interval. This smart container is equipped with a 24-hour temperature monitor with three indicators indicating safe, alert, and risky temperature conditions. In risky condition, a warning is given in the form of an alarm sound that provide sufficient time to return the temperature to safe condition. KONTRAVIR is also equipped with Global Satellite Positioning tracking to track its position in delivery. The experiment shows that KONTRAVIR can achieve target temperature of 2°C within 75 minutes and maintain it within required range.

Deployment of Smart Specimen Transport System Using RFID and NB-IoT Technologies for Hospital Laboratory

“…The development of IoT technologies has create new spaces for the integration of RFID tags for outdoor usage [ 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 ]. In [ 25 ], the authors proposed tracking and tracing food conditions using the integration of RFID and IoT technologies.…”

“…Nowadays, radio frequency identification (RFID) and Internet of Things (IoT) technology play a fundamental role in the so-called automation factory or Industry 4.0 era, aiming to increase the level of automation of industrial processes. In the medical packaging and logistic domain, RFID has gradually become an attractive technology due to its distinctive features such as the low cost of RFID tags, the reuse of RFID tags, and the easiness of RFID tag’s deployment and within the items to be tracked [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. In addition, RFID and IoT are vital to boost the hospital’s digital transformation to improve the efficiency and safety through many applications, such as tracking patients inside the hospital, drug management, and medical assets in hospitals.…”