The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging field that encompasses a wide range of devices connected to each other, and/or the internet to provide services such as real-time data collection and analytics. PATH is specifically looking into IoT for potentially monitoring cold chain equipment (CCE) inventories via automated data recording of equipment performance. Performance metrics may include vaccine compartment temperature, humidity, power availability, and door opening. A key component of IoT is wireless communications for transferring data between sensors and monitoring systems. This is especially important for health care facilities without access to traditional internet service providers and requires data transfer to another location with an internet connection.

This landscape documents wireless data communication technologies and their performance characteristics, such as transmission range, network topology, licensing, and power consumption.

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