Arduino-Based Temperature Monitoring Device for Cold Chain Transportation

Abstract

The aim of this study is to build a system and device prototype to monitoring temperature of cold chain transportation. The device use Arduino open source microcontroller platform as the basis. The data of the temperature stored inside SD card as a log file to report the temperature history during transportation. The device will transmit warning to drivers and related stakeholders. Warning activity occurred if the fluctuation of the container temperature reach or exceed temperature upper threshold. When the warning activity occurred, the device that connected through GSM network will send notification message to the related stakeholders and turn on warning lamp inside driver's cockpit. Several performance tests were done, including basic feature test, recording test, and transportation simulation test. The advantages of this device are open source, easy to modify and duplicate, inexpensive, easy to save the log files, and responsive. The disadvantages of this device are needed power supply and GSM network signal.