Project Director Dr. Pushpendra P. Singh, stated the gadget can be made out there to all corporations concerned in COVID-19 vaccine transportation at a manufacturing price of ₹400
Indian Institute of Technology in Punjab’s Ropar has developed a first-of-its-kind Internet of Things (IoT) gadget – AmbiTag.
The institute acknowledged that the gadget information real-time ambient temperature through the transportation of perishable merchandise, physique organs, and blood, vaccines, and so forth. AmbiTag is a USB-shaped gadget that repeatedly information the temperature of its quick environment from -40℃ to 80℃ in any time zone for a full 90 days on a single cost.
Most of the same units out there within the worldwide market record knowledge just for a length of 30 – 60 days. AmbiTag has a spread of inbuilt options to customise logging intervals, time zone, and alarms, stated Dr. Suman Kumar, the coordinator of the IoT Systems Domain on the Agriculture and Water Technology Development Hub (AWaDH).
He stated AmbiTag is a licensed gadget priced under ₹1000 to make sure the broader use of the gadget in numerous purposes. “It generates an alert when the temperature goes beyond a pre-set limit. The recorded data can be retrieved in user-defined format by connecting the USB with any computer,” he stated.
“The AmbiTag temperature data log advises the user whether the transported item is usable or the cold chain has been compromised during the transportation. This information is particularly critical for vaccines, organs, and blood transportation in the Indian scenario,” he added.
“AmbiTag in India is developed by the researchers at the IIT Ropar Technology Innovation Hub – AWaDH and its startup ScratchNest. The ScratchNest is an IoT technology startup founded by four IIT Ropar students. AmbiTag is waterproof and monitors ambient temperature during the transportation of vaccines, including Covid-19, medicines, blood samples, food and dairy products, meat products, and animal semen. So far, such devices are being imported by India in a massive quantity from other countries, such as; Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, and China,” said Amit Bhatti, one of the founders and directors of ScratchNest.
Project Director of AWaDH, Dr. Pushpendra P. Singh, said the institute is gearing for mass-production of AmbiTag. “The device will be made available to all companies involved in COVID-19 vaccine transportation from production facilities to the last mile vaccination centers in the country at the production cost of ₹400,” stated Dr. Singh.
