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Temperature monitoring of medicines is essential for product quality and patient safety. Product quality is influenced by temperature perturbations and time delays in interventions. Thanks to Internet of Things (IoT) considerable progress has been made in recent years in the improvement of temperature monitoring devices. However, temperature monitoring in medicine Cold Chain remains challenging. In...
With the development of electronic commerce, traditional e-business has gradually changed. Enterprises pay more attention to meet the personalized needs of consumers. Being an all new e-business model, B2M is marketing-oriented. B2M solutions based on RFID are more suitable for the special medical enterprise. Not only do website promotion and shopping guide proceed through online and offline, but...
The radio frequency identification (RFID) technology promises to improve several processes in the healthcare scenario, especially those related to the traceability of people and things. Unfortunately, there are still some barriers limiting the large-scale deployment of these innovative technologies in the healthcare field. Among these, the evaluation of potential thermal and nonthermal effects due...
Based on the analysis of pharmaceuticals logistics, this paper describes the Internet of Things (IoT) application status in pharmaceuticals warehouse, transportation, quality and safety management. Then the paper in-depth analyzes the main problems and difficulties, such as lack of industry standards, high investment costs, technology started late, lack of industry professionals, information leakage...
This paper presents a dedicated UHF reader antenna to be mounted inside a pharmaceutical cabinet for RFID reading of UHF tags attached to pharmaceutical items. The proposed solution is based on a group of four circularly polarized patch antennas. The antennas' simulated and measured performances are presented. Experimental tests of self-standing tags and of tags attached to medical objects were performed...
Recently, the advantages of RFID make it the focus of supply chain research areas, so it is critical to do cost-benefit analysis on RFID investment. By assuming a simple scenario of RFID application on pharmaceutical supply chain and comparing the processes before and after RFID application, this paper analyzes RFID cost and benefit quantitatively, and offers the corresponding formula, finally proposes...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a very promising wireless technology able to trace and track individual objects. The pharmaceutical supply chain is a challenging scenario, where an item-level traceability is crucial to guarantee transparency and safety in the drug flow. Unfortunately, there are still some barriers limiting the large-scale deployment of these innovative technologies. In order...
The use of RFID technology for anti-counterfeiting involves complex event processing, which exceeds the current state of the art of product tracking and tracing implementations. The use of RFID requires storing good related events for anti-counterfeiting in a distributed way by each handling party individually. We define a formal approach for modeling of data entities, events, and operations that...
In RFID-aided supply chains captured location-based event data is stored in distributed repositories. Performing anti-counterfeiting involves checks on the good's path in the supply chain. The path is reconstructed by querying corresponding event data from distributed repositories. The object name service performs lookups of relevant event repositories in EPCglobal networks. Attacking the lookup process...
RFID technology is regarded as an attractive solution for product supply chain management owing to product traceability offered by RFID technology. Based on the product traceability, important services such as product authenticity service, accurate stock assessment service, and real-time product-delivery status monitoring service are possible. In Korea, government starts to push pharmaceutical industry...
Advances in medical technology rely heavily on the collection and analysis of measured data to facilitate patient diagnosis and business decisions. The healthcare industry, particularly pharmaceuticals and diagnostic processes, has an ongoing need to improve item tracking and data collection to improve the quality of care while reducing cost. This paper primarily focuses on integrating Radio Frequency...
RFID implementations leverage competitive business advantages in processing, tracking and tracing of fast-moving goods. Most of them suffer from security threats and the resulting privacy risks as RFID technology was not designed for exchange of sensible data. Emerging global RFID-aided supply chains require open interfaces for data exchange of confidential business data between business partners...
The item-level traceability is a very important requirement for many practical application scenarios, where it needs to guarantee perfect transparency for products flow along the whole supply chain. Among these, the pharmaceutical distribution is a very interesting scenario, characterized by many challenges, where, the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology will play a very important role...
Pharmaceutical manufacturing is legally bound and supervised by government. Paper-based and manual pharmaceutical manufacturing systems are time-consuming, manpower-wasting, high-quality-cost and error-prone. This paper presents a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) to control production process on the shop floor. Some new advanced technologies, such as RFID, wireless manufacturing, real-time data...
The item-level tagging is one of the main challenges of many application scenarios. Among these, the pharmaceutical supply chain represents a very interesting case where the new auto-identification technologies, based on RFID and EPCglobal, will play a very import role. The authors present practical experiences gained from a recent research project on the item-level traceability in the pharmaceutical...
During the last years the significance of RFID systems has increased rapidly. In fact, its use is expected to increase by a factor of twenty until 2016. Medical applications are expected to be a main cause of this development. Currently, RFID systems are primary identification systems, based on the transmission of a key number or little further information. Using new technical developements and higher...
The single-use bioprocessing is an attractive new approach of biopharmaceutical manufacturing. Digital identification of single-use bioprocess components is critical to facilitate their asset management, to document electronic pedigree, and to provide authentication. This identification can be achieved using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags. In this study, we critically analyze the challenges...
Single-use biopharmaceutical manufacturing requires monitoring of critical manufacturing parameters. However, the lack of reliable single-use sensors prevents the biopharmaceutical industry from fully embracing single-use biomanufacturing processes. We report here an approach for passive radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based sensing that does not rely on costly proprietary RFID memory chips...
Information transmission is one of the important features desired in pharmaceutical supply chain. But, at the same time, it is a challenge task as there is an information transmission lag in the existing model of supply chain management. The need of supply chain visibility and transparency in pharmaceutical industry has increased tremendously with the emerging auto-identification technologies. The...
The pharmaceutical industry suffers increasingly from product counterfeits. Although RFID technology can be used as a basis for an integer and counterfeit-resistant pharmaceutical supply chain, the total costs of ownership are hardly specified. We define specific levels of security and corresponding fields of operation to value privacy of customers and supply chain participants. Our contribution defines...
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