Development of a wireless sensor platform for quality control in the cold chain of the future

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Pasteur consortium meeting – 5-6 April 2011 Antwerp

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Workshop & brainstorming

26 October 2012 – Het Pand (Gent)

Development of a wireless sensor

platform for quality control

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RFID adoption in the logistic cool chain

# of items to be tagged

Present

2010-2015

>> 2015

Bulk-management

Multi-item management

Item management

Price per tag

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Supply chain monitoring of perishables

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Accurately determine ‘shelf life’

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Optimise logistic chain and retail management

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Ensure health safety of monitored products

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Liability in distribution-chain (e.g. damage)

What to monitor?

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Temperature history is most important

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Other parameters are highly product-dependent

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Humidity

(dried food (tea) or powder (flour),

also pharmaceuticals)

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pH

(meat, fish and dairy products)

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O

₂

and CO

₂

(MAP-products)

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Ethylene

(fruits and flowers)

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Aim of the Pasteur project

‘ research and development towards a

wireless sensor tag

which enables monitoring the

environmental conditions of perishables

in the cold chain’

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Workshop & brainstorming SfF, 26 October 2012 – Het Pand (Gent)

Selected application case: Fruit Cold chain

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The quality of fruits (e.g. taste, color, texture, firmness,

occurrence of defects) can be related to the environmental

conditions during its transport and storage in the cold chain

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Application cases

Meat based

products

Plant based

products

Carcasses

Packed

Tomatoes, ornamentals

Tomatoes, apples

Avocado, strawberry

pH T C₂H₄ pH T T RH O2 CO2 T RH O2 CO2 T RH O2 CO2

Processed

products

Carbonated drinks

Convenience

O2 CO2

T

O2 CO2

T

RH

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MIST sensor chip

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AM GDS-View (x64) (version 7.6.3) 200um

RH

CO

2 Sensor response to

relative humidity

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Printed battery development

First printed batteries delivered

 Lateral and stacked concepts

 Sufficient (peak) energy at RT

 Battery on tag (+ printed antenna)

Zinc

_Substrate

Manganese

Electrolyte

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Battery status

1 year self-discharge study 3rd generation Prelonic battery

- Capacity doubled

- Self discharge time also

doubled

No increase in internal

leakage

However, the battery capacity

is still too low to serve the

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Other battery options

CR2025: 2-3.1V

• 165mAh  ~1.5 years life-time (assuming ~0.01mA average

consumption)

0.9-1.5V & ~12mAh

~45days life-time

55x47x0.5mm

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PCB version of the sensor tag

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Deployment - Activation

Life Cycle of a smart tag

Manufacturing Storage Parameterization Scanning Removal Disposal Tr anspo rt -Sto ra ge

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Read-out locations

Grower

Auction

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Real-time monitoring of the cold chain

GSM

and/or

satellite

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Conclusions & Outlook

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The benefits of a smart sensor tag can be found on all places

of the supply chain, between producer and distributor and

between retailer and end-customer.

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However at the moment, it is unclear who is willing to pay for

the investment to implement the Pasteur solution into the

different cold chains

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Most probably, the high-end markets and pharma will be the

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It fulfils a direct need from the market, since consumers

(governments and agencies) put more and more strict rules

and guidelines to the quality of products.

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Technology chain and the Pasteur partners

Systems (Tags, Readers, Software) … Components

(Thin Film Batteries, ICs,

Antenna substrates, …)

Tools and Materials

(Zn powder, polymer foils, molding compounds, sensing materials, silicon

wafers, lithography tools, ….)

Application Solutions Systems (Tags, Readers, Software) Components

(Thin Film Batteries, ICs,

Antenna substrates,..)

Tools and Materials

(Zn powder, polymer foils, molding compounds, sensing materials, ….)