• DocumentCode
    1464010
  • Title

    Monitoring Vaccine Cold Chains in Developing Countries

  • Author

    Chaudhri, Rohit ; Borriello, Gaetano ; Anderson, Richard

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • Volume
    11
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    26
  • Lastpage
    33
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Pervasive Computing, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1268
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPRV.2012.20
  • Filename
    6165254