Texas Instruments Cold Chain Solutions

Texas Instruments offers a variety of solutions for cold chain management. Cold chain management includes all of the means used to ensure a constant temperature for a product that is not heat stable from the time it is manufactured or farmed until the time it is used. With increasing safety regulations such as Good Distribution Policies (GDP), FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), EU Commission (EN12830) and World Health Organization (WHO), cold chain management is being required in more and more applications. The solutions offered by Texas Instruments include temperature sensors, humidity sensors, optical sensors and MSP430 FRAM microcontrollers.

Features

  • Industries
    • Food
    • Retail
    • Medical (hospitals, transplants, blood)
    • Pharmaceutical
    • Refrigeration
    • Transportation (air, ship, truck, and train)
    • Fleet management
    • Warehousing
    • Packaging
  • Industry standards
    • NIST traceability
    • EN12830
    • FSMA
    • GDP (Good Distribution Practices)

Applications

  • Indicators
  • Single Event: Excursion outside temp/time window
  • Typically disposable
  • Either chemical or electronic
  • Data loggers (both disposable and reusable)
  • Temperature, humidity, light, and vibration data are stored
  • Real-time options (Zigbee®, Wi-Fi®, cellular, satellite)
  • Wired and wireless communication between the data logger and sensors
  • Data loggers with or without integrated sensors

Cold Chain Applications

Texas Instruments Cold Chain Solutions
Publicado: 2019-10-15 | Actualizado: 2025-06-12