SmartCOOLBOX
Smart Modular Passive Cool Boxes for Sustainable Logistics
20 months
September 2018 to March 2019
The challenge
Cold chain plays a vital role across the pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries, ensuring that temperature-sensitive drugs, chemicals, blood plasma, tissue samples and diagnostic products remain stable during distribution and reach their destination undamaged. The EU-funded SmartCOOLBOX project is supporting Spain-based company INDUSTRIAL PROCESSES OUTSOURCING SERVICES SL in developing a logistics solution that simplifies transport management of goods that require a controlled temperature environment. The technology, which is offered as a service, relies on an intelligent, connected, reusable and modular isothermal container that reduces losses due to temperature excursions.
The solution
SmartCOOLBOX is a logistics solution for highly reliable temperature-controlled goods, based on an intelligent, connected, reusable and modular isothermal container. It reduces losses due to temperature excursions and allows savings through modular reusable boxes and less wasted products. With the SmartCOOLBOX innovation, pharma and biotech companies will be able to transport their temperature-sensitive goods in difficult-to-access areas.
Guarantee perfect delivery and traceability of the transported products
Enables us to transport materials at different ranges of temperature
Transport all kind of volume and to all kind of destinations
Control temperature of the product at any time
Outcomes: Key results
- Improve SmartCOOLBOX design and manufacturing process to enhance robustness and reduce costs, improving competitive advantage
- Establish IoT specifications for secure data protection, communication, and control platform
- Launch a data cloud for SmartCOOLBOX sensor data and implement blockchain-based tracking for security and audit purposes
- Enhance and expand the web platform to attract and retain customers with additional functionalities and language support
- Industrialize mechanical, physical, and electronic parts for testing, validation, and certification processes
- Define standard operating procedures for efficient operations, compliance, and quality output
- Conduct validation activities with user feedback and input from pharma and logistics companies to improve design, business approach, and impact
- Update business model, commercialization plan, and internationalization plan based on collected feedback and market conditions
Role of Enide
- Support to the Proposal Preparation
- Innovation Management
Services related to the role
- Innovation Management and Funding Consultancy
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