Abstract
Temperature control is the key element during medicine storage. Pharmacies sell some medical products which are kept in fridges. The opening and closing of the fridge while taking some medicine makes the outside hot air enter the fridge, which will increase the inner fridge temperature. When the frequency of opening and closing of the fridge is increased, the temperature may go beyond the allowed storage temperature range. In this paper, we are proposing a model with the help of machine learning that will be used in multiple chambers fridges to keep indicating the time remaining for the inner temperature to go beyond the allowed range, and if the time is short, the system will propose to the pharmacist not to open that particular room and proposes a room that has enough time slots (time to reach the upper limit temperature). By using training data got from a thermoelectric cooler-based fridge, we constructed a multiple linear regression model that can predict the required time for a given room to reach the cut-off temperature in case that room is opened. The built model was evaluated using the coefficient of determination R2 and is found to be 77%, and then it can be used to develop a multiple room smart fridge for efficiently storing highly sensitive medical products.
Highlights
In Rwanda, medicines and even some types of vaccines are being sold in pharmacies
If the frequency of opening and closing of the fridge increases, the inner temperature might go beyond the acceptable storage range, and this may lead to the inefficacy of the stored medical products [4]
Our contribution was to propose a machine learning model which is based on linear regression with multiple variables that can be embedded in a fridge to make it enough intelligent for monitoring the opening and closing of the door for proper storage of temperature-sensitive products such as vaccines
Summary
In Rwanda, medicines and even some types of vaccines are being sold in pharmacies. Medical products are stored based on their storage conditions, such as temperature, light, and humidity [1]. Our contribution was to propose a machine learning model which is based on linear regression with multiple variables that can be embedded in a fridge (multichambers fridge) to make it enough intelligent for monitoring the opening and closing of the door for proper storage of temperature-sensitive products such as vaccines. To the best of our knowledge, this the only research work that proposes a machine learning model to be embedded in a medical multichambers fridge to help pharmacists to achieve an efficient way of storing medical products by predicting the remaining time for a particular chamber to go beyond the accepted storage temperature
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