You may have seen the term “data-driven” popping up more frequently in the business trade headlines and wondered if it’s just another jargon buzz word. Is the “data-driven” concept really something new? After all, in our age of computers, spreadsheets, market research, and statistics, haven’t industries been driven by data for some time now.

Written by Jason Sroka | January 25, 2021 | Pharmacy Safety, Food Safety, Connected Facility, Supply Chain, Data

Advances in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) domain have created a wealth of new opportunities for making sense of the world, but has brought with it the challenge of leveraging massive amounts of data to improve decision-making. As the number of connected devices continues to grow, manual data collection methods are quickly becoming impractical. Implementing systems that apply analytics to generate...

Written by Jason Sroka | July 18, 2018 | Connected Facility

Food safety and pharmaceutical storage are two applications where knowing the temperature of the storage area for a product is critical to ensuring its safety and viability. Produce will spoil quicker when it’s not cooled during storage, which can lead to quality issues in the freshness and taste of the final product.

Written by Jason Sroka | January 25, 2018 | Connected Facility

In the first two posts of this series, we discussed the challenges associated with physical buffer vials and SmartSense’s solution - the Virtual Buffer Vial (VBV), a patented modeling approach that simulates actual product temperature and eliminates the need for physical buffers.

Written by Jason Sroka | July 27, 2017 | Pharmacy Safety, Connected Facility

In our last post we discussed the challenges of physical buffer vials, in particular (1) the shelf space they take up that could be used for products, (2) the potential to get in the way as product is access around them, and (3) the potential for the buffering materials to spill and ruin product or product packaging.

Written by Jason Sroka | July 13, 2017 | Pharmacy Safety, Connected Facility