Smart-fish system for fresh fish cold chain transportation — Overall approach and selection of sensor materials

This paper gives and overview of Cold Chain temperature measuring solutions available on a commercial market and introduces an approach of building a smart system for fresh fish transportation, called Smart-Fish. The system measurement ability ranges beyond a temperature measurement. It also features a GPS-based tracking and may be equipped with other types of sensors. A great domain-specific applicability for real-time measures and potentially low production cost stands the system out of crowd of similar solutions. Printed electronics technologies were utilised for temperature sensor, the key element of the system. The paper describes a set of requirements, results of material tests and final selection of material for this element.