IoT-enabled Stability Chamber for the Pharmaceutical Industry

TL;DR

This paper presents an IoT-enabled stability chamber for pharmaceuticals, integrating advanced control and remote monitoring to improve traditional chambers' performance, cost-effectiveness, and usability.

Contribution

It introduces a novel IoT-based control and monitoring system for pharmaceutical stability chambers, leveraging existing infrastructure and FDA-compliant visualization tools.

Findings

Enhanced remote monitoring capabilities

Cost-effective integration with existing infrastructure

Improved control precision and data visualization

Abstract

A stability chamber is essential for pharmaceutical facilities to test the stability and quality of products over time by exposing them to different environmental conditions. This paper introduces an IoT-enabled stability chamber designed for the pharmaceutical industry. We constructed four stability chambers by leveraging the existing infrastructure within a manufacturing facility. Each chamber is controlled using a state-of-the-art Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) system based on the Siemens S7-1200 PLC. The Siemens WinCC Runtime Advanced platform, compliant with FDA 21 CFR Part 11, was used for visualizing chamber data. Additionally, an Internet of Things (IoT) application was developed to remotely monitor sensor data through any client application. This research aims to enhance the performance of traditional stability chambers by integrating IoT functionalities, making them more cost-effective and user-friendly.