Singapore-based TagBox is providing real-time temperature and location monitoring and traceability of the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in India.

The company is providing its BoxLens product to Dr Reddy’s Laboratories. It comprises IoT devices such as Tag360 temperature sensors and TagHub gateways, TagSync mobile app and the BoxLens software platform. These will help Dr Reddy’s get end-to-end visibility of the storage and transit conditions of Sputnik V vaccine batches as they are moved across various cities in the country.

“We are proud and excited to be a part of this pan-India Sputnik V distribution exercise, and be able to contribute in our own way for safe distribution of the vaccine,” said Adarsh Kumar, CEO of TagBox. “We are working with Dr Reddy’s logistics and technology teams to create a seamless, integrated platform that can be used very easily by on-ground staff of Dr Reddy’s and multiple cost-and-freight partners across the country, who will be carrying Sputnik V to hospitals and other vaccination centres.”

The BoxLens platform will have the ability to monitor all the handoffs in the supply chain and provide an unbroken view of the cold chain to all the stakeholders. Any shipment that shows a temperature anomaly can be quarantined in real time and prevented from moving further in supply chain, thereby ensuring only safe and effective vaccines reach the inoculation centres.

Built features include real-time alerts for temperature excursions, unauthorised truck stops and door opening, route adherence and ETA for next stop. Additionally, BoxLens provides various analytics and reporting modules that help identify systemic failure points in the supply chain and thus enable improvement in KPIs.

TagBox is working with more than 40 organisations across India and Apac to solve problems such as product quality and compliance, end-to-end traceability and operational efficiency in their supply chains.