IoT-enabled Sensing-as-a-Service solutions offer valuable insights and automated, prescriptive workflows that empower employees to protect supply chain assets in real time. In this post, we examine three supply chain networks that clearly demonstrate the benefits of implementing a digitalized monitoring system: retail food service, laboratory research, and vaccine administration.

Written by SmartSense | June 11, 2024 | Food Safety, FSMA, Supply Chain, Healthcare, Pharmacy

Healthcare and food service profoundly depend on the public trust. Any deviation that consumers experience regarding medication efficacy and food safety carries the potential for the following risks:

Written by SmartSense | January 17, 2024 | Food Safety, Patient Safety, Healthcare, Pharmacy

Implementing Internet of Things (IoT) Sensing-as-a-Service solutions at healthcare organizations is more crucial than ever as the annual vaccines now considered essential for public health have proliferated, such as COVID-19, flu, RSV, HPV, shingles, pneumonia, and hepatitis-B. Especially during a long-term labor shortage, gaps in staffing can compromise holding, handling, and administration procedures, thereby...

Written by SmartSense | November 29, 2023 | Healthcare, Pharmacy

In the evolving Sensing-as-a-Service ecosystem, no single solution provider can cover all the connectivity requirements for an organization’s IT systems. Neither can a data analyst be expected to have complete knowledge of a company’s vertical-specific needs, covering everything from facilities and finance to operations and task management.But when a data analyst is partnered with an open platform that takes...

Written by SmartSense | August 22, 2023 | Patient Safety, Healthcare

Hospital food service operations is one of the more complicated systems within the hospitality sector. Why? Hospital menus are, first and foremost, based on the curative and nutritional needs of patients in order to support the healing process. Yet, at the same time, hospital chefs must pay attention to variety, quality, aesthetics, and taste so that patients will find the foods appealing.Unfortunately, since...

Written by SmartSense | July 18, 2023 | Food Safety, Food Service, Patient Safety, Healthcare