Green Smart Packaging
In the project “Green Smart Packaging” we are developing green printed sensor tags that can be used to monitor the quality of perishable goods such as food and pharmaceuticals across the logistics chain.
The goal of this project is to realize ultra-low cost simple eco-friendly chipless sensor tags that are read fully automatically without altering existing infrastructure and processes in authentication and logistics, based on our joint expertise in biocompatible and biodegradable materials, sensors, printed electronics and zero power RF systems.
Our focus application is smart packaging of perishable goods, with a key use for pharmaceuticals that have to be kept below 25 °C and below 60% relative humidity. Achieving this in a simple, printed and fully biodegradable sensing tag is the big challenge that GREENsPACK will tackle and solve. Knowledge generated in the project will also be useful for further sensitive products monitoring such as biological samples and organs, for environmental, agriculture and physiological sensing, as well as for transient electronics.
This work is carried out in collaboration with EPFL and CSEM and was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation Bridge Discovery program (Grant No: 40B2-0_187223/1) and the results have been disclosed in Scientific Reports, Advanced Materials Technologies and a patent application.
More information can be found on the project web page linked here.