Anttail's seamless cold chain monitoring solution ensures product quality through comprehensive temperature monitoring and data recording from manufacturing to delivery. It offers features like advanced alarm profiles for better product stability management, resulting in lower transport costs and waste reduction, while providing an audit trail for compliance. The solution utilizes secure gateways and reusable sensors to efficiently monitor and sync large volumes of data without requiring ICT involvement.

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AntTail Seamless Cold Chain Monitoring
Solution overview
Completeness of solution
Hardware only Software only Service only Software/hardware/service
Average ROI
1 year 2 years 3 years
Cost to implement
$1K $10K $100K $1M $10M
Number of sensors per gateway
10 50 100 150 200 250
Environmental impact
< improve = Neutral > worse
AntTail’s seamless temperature monitoring safeguards product quality as it provides a
complete and auditable data record of the shipment from the manufacturing facility to an
end-point. Data completeness and automatic data collection to the back-office is realized
via gateway’s and smart phones throughout the supply chain. In the back-office alarm
evaluation and timely reporting to decision makers is supported. Seamless monitoring also
provides more advanced alarm profiles on e.g. based on total time out of storage or stability
budgets. Sophisticated alarm profiles allow better utilization of product stability data and
result in less product rejection (less false positives) during storage and transport.
BUSINESS BENEFITS
Seamless monitoring leads to lower
transport cost and less waste. Furthermore,
it gives insight into transport quality,
delivery accuracy and can be used to
validate authentication and integrity of
your shipments. If an anomaly is detected
in the cold chain, timely reporting allows
fact (data) based decisions that yield short
response and/or correction times. Full audit
trails for compliancy save time and money,
but most importantly: the quality of
pharmaceutical products is secured.
CHALLENGES
- Quality Assurance Managers:
Ensuring product quality and compliancy
from plant to patient
- Logistic Service Managers and Supply
Chain Managers:
Efficient handovers without losing time
and data
- C-level representatives:
Adhering to compliancy and protecting
reputation with quality and cost-effective
solution
Creating a transparent Supply Chain
From manufacturer to the last mile

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A simple supply chain with 4 handovers. When TOS
budget is equally divided over the 4 handovers, an
exception occurs at the 3rd handover. However, as
in the first two legs, the measured TOS is smaller
than the budget, the remaining budget can be safely
be used at the third leg. There is no waste and
product quality is still ensured and there is an
auditable trace based on measurements
AntTail Seamless Cold Chain Monitoring
Securing the audit trail

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Data: harvesting and presentation
Gateway or Gateway App:
• Uses mobile network for connectivity to AntCloud
(No ICT involvement for implementation)
• All connections are secure
• Keeps over 250 AntTail Sensors on-line
• Can sync over 25.000 datapoints per minute when
a shipment arrives from multiple Sensors.
Hassle-free monitoring enabled on shipper box level!
All re-useable AntTail sensors:
• Use Bluetooth Low Energy, allowed on airplanes
• Quick sync of datapoints to AntCloud at a rate of
9000 datapoints per minute
• All messages are encrypted with a unique key per
sensor
ANT and ANTlux* RAT and RATex
• Battery life 18 months 96 months
• Storage 210.000 850.000 datapoints
*ANTlux has light sensor to detect box opening events
AntTail Seamless Cold Chain Monitoring