Lyngsoe Systems A/S and the American companies Omni-ID and Axzon are pleased to announce the introduction of the latest state-of-the-art solution to manage and support the process of handling covid-19 vaccines. The solution enables vaccine centers to automate the management of vaccine administration including planning, automated data collection, temperature monitoring, vaccine authentication and vaccine validity. The solution provides complete oversight of the practical processes during the handling of Covid-19 or any other vaccines.
The method consists of three unique components.
The battery-free RFID smart sensor label has the unique capability of measuring both liquid volume and temperature of each individual vial to ensure the safe and correct dosage is administered to the patient. The advanced RFID sensor technology includes a unique traceable identifier, digital signature, and serial number to ensure authenticity.
The solution includes a workstation and advance IT RFID reading equipment, Smart RFID Handheld terminals, edge server, BLE Freezer\Fridge temperature monitoring equipment.
The planning and process monitoring software solution run in the background and records each step of the process and reports:
Moreover, the solution offers several positive economic benefits and necessary oversight to ensure compliance with the strict time and temperature requirements associated with handling the new vaccines. The solution is designed to ensure vaccine efficacy, minimizes waste, and improve the day-to-day operations at each vaccine center.
The background story for introducing this new and advanced technology right now, Keld Ole Nielsen Refers: “We are as humanity facing a giant challenge when it comes to handling covid-19 vaccines and some of the citizens in the countries around the world are already skeptical when it concerns vaccines and in particular the handling process and security around the vaccines including within the established healthcare system. The big question is how populations will react if or when concerns or doubt is raised in relation to the administration of vaccines due to the unprecedented complexity of vaccine handling related to the extreme temperature requirements and variance between handling procedures of the different vaccine manufacturers.
Keld Ole Continues: “Due to the urgency and need for efficiencies, health care workers should be focusing on administering of vaccine doses and having a digital process supporting and recording the logistics of vaccine vial management. The world welcomes the new vaccine offerings but it requires specialized oversight that calls for a uniform easy adaptable, efficient handling process that can provide the backbone to ensure efficacy and security in the vaccine work process. We all want to get back to normal. This will happen sooner with safe efficient deployment. And that is exactly why this solution is relevant – built on State-of-the-art RFID technology that fully utilizes the potential that RFID offers as a technology.”
Supporting fully automated reads and a flexible “handheld” process
The work methodology is focused on the objective of the healthcare worker, to administer effective vaccines as efficiently as possible, and therefore the system supports fully automated data registration processes supported by a practical work tool to ensures speed and flexibility of the vaccination process within the vaccines centers. The solution is designed to ensure the vaccine process is completed in a conform and secure manner to avoid manual handling errors jeopardizing the safety of the citizens. The system supports; planning and vaccine center logistics scheduling activities allowing the local vaccine centers to implement standardized operational procedures, FIFO (First in first out) inventory management, monitoring time, and temperature conformance for the deep freezer storage, fridge storage, thawing, and dilution process before administration. “Safety, security, and speed in combination,” Keld Ole Nilsen Said.
Vaccine centers – Alerting the personnel
If vaccine vials or diluted vaccines are approaching the predefined time or temperature expiry thresholds an alarm is raised and the healthcare personnel is advised by SMS or E-mail. If a threshold is crossed individual vials can be quarantined and blocked in the system. All of the blocked vials and discarded vaccines are registered so it is possible to follow and obtain real-time status of the completed transactions as well as overviewing the quarantined vaccines. The information is automatically stored and can later be retrieved on a regional or national level which helps to prevent both individual errors and systemic handling errors.
Counterfeit
The state-of-the-art smart sensor label is equipped with a permanent factory-programmed unique identifier, perma-locked vaccine vendor identifier with a unique serial number, and perma-locked digital signature enabling online authentication. Together these identifiers are used to prevent forgery of vaccine vials where it is a commonly known problem that criminal forces are trying to resell packaging with counterfeit content. Upon vial consumption vial identifiers are marked as consumed in the system. Furthermore, the RFID tag is killed after the contents are consumed preventing future reading of the tag data content or temperature and liquid volume measurement features.
Implementing the new generation of sensor labels
Pre smart sensor vaccine labels (current vaccine labels) require time-consuming manual vial identification handling procedures. Smart senor label technology enables automatic reading in bulk quantities at distances of up to 1.5 meters. This ensures safer more speedy inventorying and accounting as vaccine vials are moved through the processes; at receiving, to freezer/fridge, to dilution, to administration.
Security and documented vaccination with full traceability
New Smart Sensor Labeling technology enables speed in operational handling and minimizes waste in the manual vaccination administration process. It enables oversight, automated documentation, efficiencies in inventorying, and monitoring a large number of vaccine vials. It is possible to measure and register the temperature and fluid level of up to 200 vaccines in a matter of seconds. An automated digital trail is created as each individual vaccine is moved through the process allowing for the capturing of time, temperature, and volume for each vaccine vial.
The system is expected to be used as a part of the national health programs in the various countries supporting the enrollment of Covid-19 vaccines and potentially other future pandemics and other vaccines in general.
Facts
Preventing handling errors:
Errors that can be prevented when utilizing the Vial Monitoring solution, (Smart Sensor label, Monitoring equipment, planning, and monitoring software). Errors include:
Lyngsoe systems
Lyngsoe Systems has been a world leader in the field of cutting-edge electronic logistics control for over 40 years and is a leader in the application of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. We provide the whole solution, a one-stop shop. We are renowned for innovation, out-of-the-box thinking, and the ability to put ideas into practice.
We offer best in class logistical solutions across the customer supply chain, offering real-time visibility, traceability, and automated data capture to increase customer revenues, reduce OPEX, and ensure quality.
Lyngsoe has a proven track record of more than 5,000 installations in 60 countries. The Lyngsoe team can demonstrate extensive experience in customer process knowledge, solution design, software development, integration, service, and maintenance. We offer complete project management and consultancy services in any local, regional, or even global setting.
Omni-ID
The World’s leading developer of specialist UHF RFID devices who started life inventing the first on-metal and on-liquid RFID tag. We have taken the same boundary-pushing approach by introducing RFID and IoT devices to a significant number of industries including Logistics, Oil and Gas, Yard Management and Asset Tracking. We specialize in custom designs for difficult applications or harsh environments across the globe and even beyond – in the International Space Station.
Axzon
Since 2006, Axzon has been a leading pioneer in RFID passive sensing, bringing intelligence to the end points in the IoT market, connecting the “Unconnected”, using its highly innovative integrated circuits (IC). Axzon’s ICs create a digital twin of the item it is connected to, providing unprecedented environmental conditions of the item. Axzon has been serving tier one end customers in the industrial and healthcare markets by providing valuable actionable insight to streamline manufacturing processes. Applications include vaccine tracking and Automotive & manufacturing quality control.
Contact Person:
Lyngsoe Systems
Keld Ole Nielsen
Director, Business Development
D: +45 9698 0973
M: +45 4019 8631
kon@lyngsoesystems.com
www.lyngsoesystems.com
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