Development of Data Logger for COVID Vaccine Temperature Monitoring System

The Data Logger (DL) is a unique tool created to carry out the typical duty of gathering data in a specific area. This common task can include measuring humidity, temperature, pressure or any other physical quantities. Due to the current pandemic situation, its use in temperature monitoring of Covid vaccine will be crucial. According to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, COVID vaccine can be stored and transported at -80 °C, -20°C and +2-8°C and shelf life is reduced as vaccine is transferred from one storage temperature to another. So cost effective, efficient and standalone Data Logger (DL) is the need of the hour. The Data logger is proposed to be developed with the use of ESP8266 Node MCU microcontroller. It takes power from a 5V Battery. DS18B20 sensor will be used for temperature sensing. Here we will use Wi-Fi module of ESP8266 Node MCU to send the temperature data from sensor to the Google Sheet over the internet. This real time data will be stored in the format of time and month/date/year. Data logged in Google Sheet will be displayed to the user with the help of graphical user interface (GUI) which is developed using PYTHON scripting language. GUI will allow user to interact with Data Logger through visual graphs. The Data Logger components are mounted on a double layered PCB.