Controlant BioSample Monitoring

A mobile solution designed to ensure the integrity of biological samples during transportation to the lab.

Collection of biosamples plays a key role in diagnosing medical conditions and identifying treatment plans as well as in developing new treatments. Samples can include blood draws, serum, urine, biopsies, tissue and DNA. One central lab can serve several clinics and safe transportation to the lab is essential.

Collecting and delivering biomedical samples to respective labs is time-sensitive and challenging.

Ensuring sample viability and safety on-the-go is crucial when you only have one chance at delivery

Outcome

Our solution enhances sample management, reducing the risk of damaged samples and saving both time and costs. It boosts efficiency in clinical trials while providing greater visibility into sample routes, driver utilization, and overall operational performance.

Pain points

Drivers often face challenges due to the lack of real-time in-transit notifications during multi-stop collection routes. Monitoring the temperature of different boxes — whether cold, ambient, or dry ice — and accurately tracking and reconciling thousands of samples also presents significant difficulties. .

Solution

A mobile app allows drivers to scan biomedical samples into the correct temperature box and monitor them during transit. It provides real-time alerts for temperature boundary breaches and supports both automatic and manual report generation and distribution.

The solution

Real-time temperature monitoring devices in transport boxes accompanied by an easy-to-use driver app. One device for all temperature ranges (frozen, chilled, ambient).

When starting a collection route, the driver assigns a Controlant device to a storage box.

Each pickup in the collection route is then scanned into the box via app and the driver can react in real time to temperature notifications. Similarly, samples are checked out of boxes when delivered to lab in a simple one step process.

Sample management overview and real time visibility is available via platform.
In addition, historical route information is provided to facilitate process optimization.

Direct cost impact of lost or damaged biological samples

Billions of biological samples are collected annually for diagnostic, research, and medical purposes across the world.
Costly delays in clinical trials can impact data integrity and new treatment availability to patients.

It is estimated that between 1 and 5% of samples are spoilt or lost before the samples reach the testing lab

Equals about 240-400 million samples lost globally each year
Direct impact on cost where re-sampling and re-testing is required
Indirect cost of delayed diagnoses and potential increased treatment costs

Why Controlant?

Controlant enables the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and service providers to focus on their core mission to deliver life-saving products safely and efficiently, while we manage the complexity.

Trusted by leading pharma companies worldwide
99.9% success rate in pharma product delivery
GxP-compliant temperature monitoring and reporting