Title :
Monitoring Vaccine Cold Chains in Developing Countries
Author :
Chaudhri, Rohit ; Borriello, Gaetano ; Anderson, Richard
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
fDate :
3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
FoneAstra is a low-cost mobile-phone-based sensing system for monitoring national vaccine cold chains. In its first pilot deployment, the system successfully diagnosed several issues.
Keywords :
computerised monitoring; mobile computing; mobile handsets; refrigeration; FoneAstra; developing country; mobile phone-based sensing system; pilot deployment; vaccine cold chain monitoring; Biomedical monitoring; Rural areas; Servers; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Vaccines; FoneAstra; ICT; SMS; remote monitoring; sensor systems;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2012.20
