Seaszone Develops Full-Cycle Cold Chain Monitoring Service

Improving Logistics Efficiency for Fresh Food and Pharmaceuticals

Seaszone announced on the 25th that it is developing a ‘cold chain’ management system for the delivery of fresh foods and pharmaceuticals that require temperature control. The company explained that it is developing core technologies and services to minimize social losses caused by spoiled products by not only managing temperature information of products requiring cold chains but also streamlining real-time management processes for environmental and transportation information in the food and pharmaceutical industries.

Seaszone’s current R&D is being promoted through participation in the project to develop technology for cold chain status information management and real-time monitoring systems, part of the ‘High Value-added Convergence Logistics Delivery and Infrastructure Innovation Technology Development’ project implemented by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in 2021. This project is being carried out by a consortium consisting of the lead research and development institution Inha University, Seaszone, CompanyW, GC Cell, Kurly, and NLogis.

Seaszone is developing a cloud-based control system to quickly grasp cold chain logistics situations, identify cold chain break points, derive risk factors, and enable proactive responses. In addition, by combining a spatial information-based integrated logistics management platform, a Software as a Service (SaaS) business platform, and digital twin-based virtual sensors for frozen and refrigerated warehouses, Seaszone is building the ‘TCLS (Temperature Controlled Logistics System) service platform.’ TCLS consists of a blockchain-based data platform that collects temperature data and a service platform that provides the collected information to each logistics entity in the form of SaaS.

TCLS Control Screen

A representative from Seaszone said, “The cold chain monitoring service platform enables monitoring of the entire cold chain process by connecting cold chain hubs and transportation sections continuously,” adding, “We are exploring the establishment of a cloud environment platform using various technologies.”

Seaszone is currently conducting a full-cycle cold chain monitoring test for fresh food customers of Market Kurly. When Market Kurly customers purchase refrigerated, frozen foods, or meat products, the status information monitoring of storage and transportation occurring throughout the entire cold chain logistics process?from suppliers to frozen/refrigerated storage warehouses, distribution logistics centers, and customers?is conducted. For bio and pharmaceutical products, cold chain monitoring service demonstrations are underway for the transportation process of GC Green Cross Cell’s Immuncell LC injection and raw blood materials, the transportation of specimens for the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and the transportation of specimens requested for testing by the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.

A Seaszone representative stated, “When an intelligent logistics center is built based on the cold chain monitoring system, it will be possible to secure connectivity of all resources inside and outside the logistics center, transparently grasp the logistics process in real time, and improve logistics operation efficiency by predicting work time and vehicle waiting time based on cold chain data.”

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