Linxens, partner in the Wibatts project

Ensuring the cold chain is maintained is of paramount importance in the food industry (to comply with current health standards) and the pharmaceutical industry (to preserve the therapeutic efficacy of medicines).

This cold chain is a real challenge because it involves different stages such as logistics, transport, and storage, and none of these links must break in order to ensure the quality of a product, from its production to its use.

Various solutions exist on the market, but most of them are control systems specific to each operator in the production chain, leaving parts of the entire process uncovered.

During the COVID outbreak, pallets of vaccines were rendered ineffective because they were left on airport tarmacs for too long at unsuitable temperatures.

In addition, existing systems involve significant implementation costs in terms of equipment and infrastructure and require compatible tools for all stakeholders, depending on the technologies used.

The aim of the Wibatts project is to use RFID technology, which is widely used in the logistics sector, to develop an RFID tag that, thanks to innovative processes, will degrade if the cold chain temperature criteria are not met and produce a visual indicator on the tag in addition to making it unreadable.

Thanks to this physical process, it will be easy for all players in the chain to determine, using a reading device or visually by looking at the label, whether or not the cold chain has been respected.

Linxens will contribute its expertise in the industrial production of RFID inlays to offer viable industrialization solutions based on the manufacturing process selected for mass production.

Wibatts is a French-Swiss consortium established as part of the INTERREG VI-A FRANCE-SUISSE 2021-2027 European territorial cooperation program.