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
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