Blood collection, transport and storage under continuous temperature monitoring
Hemovida is a certified Portuguese company that transports blood from national blood centers and transports it to private hospitals. For this, it has storage areas within each hospital that require continuous temperature monitoring. Hemovida's blood bank areas are located in more than 26 private hospitals in Portugal.
Although the organization differs from one client to another, all these areas are equipped with refrigerators and thermo-controlled equipments that allows the handling and storage of blood units that will be used for day to day operations carried out in the hospital.
In order to ensure blood storage and transport under the prescribed conservation conditions, Hemovida must trust in qualified solutions to monitor and maintain the temperature. The transmission of alerts when the temperature exceeds certain thresholds, and all information related to traceability are also a prerequisite. Because people's health is at stake, a system compliant with the EN 12 830 standard for temperature monitoring is essential.
Wireless temperature sensors and cloud solution: the perfect combo
For more than 10 years, Hemovida has used the Sirius Storage system and SPY RF temperature recorders to monitor equipments and blood stored in each hospital. Recently, the Manager upgraded to the JRI-MySirius IoT cold chain monitoring solution by installing Nano SPY connected mini temperature dataloggers.
"JRI's experience in manufacturing measurement and monitoring solutions that comply with healthcare product standards led us to choose the Sirius system several years ago. By using the new generation of Nano SPY temperature dataloggers, the measurement quality and robustness of the SPY RF loggers is able to be maintained."
Eng.º José Soares - Manager at Hemovida
The wireless technology is the perfect option to address the installation difficulties at its various customers. By switching to a Cloud solution for hosting and data management, Hemovida can reduce the IT infrastructure at each of its sites and thus cut on costs.
Managing several sites remotely, which are themselves subject to specific quality control processes, can be complicated - especially when an alarm occurs. So, the use of the MySiriusAlert mobile application becomes a valuable support to viewing and managing temperature alarms.
"The MySiriusAlert app makes us more responsive while remotely monitoring of our various sites and without relying on customer infrastructure."
Eng.º José Soares - Manager at Hemovida
The successful implementation of the JRI solutions in Hemovida sites is the result of the longstanding partnership between JRI and ZØR Thermal, specialists in thermal chain management solutions, and official distributor of JRI in Portugal for more than 10 years.
