webhookie

The Team
The Problem
The Solution

Inspiration

According to IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science, the biopharma industry loses USD$35 billion each year due to temperature-control failures across their supply chains.

What it does

Pharmaceutical temperature sensitive transports are shipped with sensors to verify the appropriate handling. Carriers must ensure the SLA they have agreed to so they also measure the temperature during transport. However the only measurement that counts is the one in the box. The solution is to provide a fast and efficient mechanism for carriers to subscribe to real-time IoT events from the shippers using ONE Record and webhookie.

How we built it

We built an iOS app to simulate a IoT tracker and a simple backend using Java Spring and Mongodb to take the events from the app and integrate them with webhookie. In addition, we also built a simple control tower using AngularJS, Java Spring and MongoDB to show the events on a map. Webhookie is an Open source product we used to implement the One Record pub/sub API.

Challenges we ran into

Timezones - team members from Australia, Finland, Estonia, and Sweden Weekend priorities - Kids birthday party, Lappland travel, etc.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A solution that demonstrates how fast and efficient new partners can be integrated using ONE Record
Providing a solution for a significant challenge faced today in pharma logistics
Great teamwork – everyone really contributing for a great result.

What we learned

How to use ONE Record resources, both on the API's and ONE Record data model.
Problems in cold chain transport, the amount of pharma waste due to this
Challenges in sharing data across multi-modal chain and especially when it is real-time requirement due to sensitivity.