Disasters like the recent hurricanes can be costly for companies that rely on power to keep their products protected. Using both temperature and power outage data, our pharmacy clients were able to assess both product and revenue loss in ways that allowed them to continue to assist patients to the best of their best ability. We evaluated power outages across 1,200 locations we monitor in Florida to generate a...

Written by SmartSense | September 27, 2017 | Connected Facility

Hurricane Harvey teaches us how valuable internet connected sensors (IoT) can be to business operations. Disclosure: Our company, SmartSense, has deployed internet-connected sensors at over 50,000 locations to automate food safety and pharmacy safety.

Written by SmartSense | September 7, 2017 | Connected Facility

As with all transformative technologies, IoT has been the source of an inordinate amount of hype but has also been a catalyst for the digital industrial revolution. General Electric’s chief economist Marco Annunziato estimated that Industrial and Enterprise focused IoT could add between 10 and 15 trillion dollars to global GDP. These gains come through small, incremental improvements in the world’s industrial assets.

Written by SmartSense | August 10, 2017 | 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 SmartSense | 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 SmartSense | July 13, 2017 | Pharmacy Safety, Connected Facility

SmartSense assists companies across a wide range of domains in setting up remote environmental monitoring systems.  A common reason our customers install remote monitoring systems is to assure that their products are safe for consumers. Two major industries that use our technology are pharmaceutical applications and food services.

Written by SmartSense | July 7, 2017 | Pharmacy Safety, Connected Facility