SEM-BLE-Eye
Eye sensor
Bluetooth temperature, humidity, movement and door sensor.
- Bluetooth
- Temperature
- Humidity
- Movement
Specs Spec on request
For wholesalers, couriers, home healthcare and community health teams
Every journey a medicine takes, with the data to prove it
Under GDP the supplier stays responsible until the medicine reaches the delivery address, for ambient products as well as fridge lines. For every route you need evidence: data from the journey itself, or a validation sound enough to stand in for it. We monitor vans, trailers and medicine boxes on the same platform as your stores.
- Vans, trailers, cool boxes and medicine transport boxes
- Each sensor's calibration certificate on its record in Sematics
- Traceable or UKAS calibration for every sensor we supply (UKAS accredited calibration laboratory No. 10723 for temperature)
Fridge compartment09:48
5.1°C
Within range · 2.0 to 8.0 °C
Ambient compartment09:48
18.4°C
Within range · 15.0 to 25.0 °C
What the inspector asks
GDP chapter 9 and the guidance around it
- HMR 2012 reg. 43
A licence condition
For wholesale dealers, the GDP guidelines are a condition of the licence, enforced by the MHRA GDP Inspectorate.
Read the guide - EU GDP 9.2
Routes, calibration and excursions
A risk assessment of delivery routes decides where temperature control is needed. Transport monitoring equipment is calibrated at least once a year, and excursions are reported to the distributor and the recipient.
Read the guide - EU GDP 9.4
Qualified vehicles and packaging
Qualified packaging, containers or vehicles for temperature-sensitive products, seasonal mapping of temperature-controlled vehicles, and cool packs that never touch the product.
Read the guide - EU GDP ch. 7
Couriers and 3PLs
A written contract, an assessment of the contractor's competence and audits. Using a courier moves the work, not the responsibility.
Read the guide - Green Book ch. 3
Vaccines taken to clinics
Validated medical-grade cool boxes with a max/min thermometer, recorded at the start and end of each session.
Read the guide - NHS SPS
Medicines carried by NHS teams
No domestic cool boxes, and cool packs usually conditioned at +2 °C to +8 °C, with frozen packs avoided unless the manufacturer recommends them.
Read the guide
What we monitor
Wherever medicines travel
Delivery vans and trailers
Load-space temperature and doors from Bluetooth sensors, with location from the vehicle tracker, on the same record as the warehouse.
Cool boxes and medicine boxes
Coldtainer active cold boxes and Medibox medicine transport boxes, tracked door to door with their temperature.
Community healthcare vehicles
Vehicles used by home healthcare and community teams, with the medicines they carry on the same record as the pharmacy or store.
Couriers and contractors
Where a courier carries your stock in monitored boxes, the journey data comes back to you, ready for the excursion report GDP asks for.
How JTF helps
Trackers and sensors that go where the medicines go
A tracker on each vehicle, Bluetooth Eye sensors in the load space, and battery trackers for boxes and containers without power. Every reading, excursion and response sits in the same Sematics record as your stores, with each sensor's calibration certificate attached.
Installed tracker
Hard-wired tracker with inputs for ignition, doors and probes.
- Cellular GPS
- Location
- Temperature (with Eye sensors)
- Door
Specs Spec on request
OBD tracker
GPS tracker that plugs into the OBD II port in seconds.
- Cellular GPS
- Location
- Temperature (with Eye sensors)
- Door
Specs Spec on request
Asset tracker
Battery tracker for trailers, containers and unpowered assets.
- Cellular GPS
- Location
- Temperature (with Eye sensors)
- Door
Specs Spec on request
Our guidance
Medicines in transit, explained from their sources
Medicines in transit
GDP chapter 9, qualifying shippers and vans, couriers and time limits.
Read the guidanceMHRA GDP explained
Mapping, monitoring, alarms and excursions for WDA holders.
Read the guidanceTemperature excursions
What to record and who to tell when stock leaves its range.
Read the guidanceWholesalers
Storage, transport and returns for the Responsible Person.
Read the guidance
Services for this sector
One team for monitoring, mapping, calibration and support
Temperature monitoring
Wireless sensors, alarms that reach a person and an audit trail of who acted.
Explore the serviceUKAS calibration
Temperature calibration in our UKAS accredited calibration laboratory No. 10723, or on your site.
Explore the serviceValidation (IQ OQ PQ, DQ)
Hardware IQ and OQ, the platform validated by Sematics, and your URS, DQ and PQ.
Explore the serviceInstallation and support
Design, installation, training and engineer cover from one UK team.
Explore the service
Free checklist
MHRA GDP and Green Book temperature checklist
One A4 page: mapping, monitoring, alarms, calibration and excursions.
Questions
What people in your sector ask us
Do we have to monitor every refrigerated delivery?
The MHRA's 2016 transport blog calls monitoring every refrigerated delivery best practice, with the data kept and reviewed per consignment. Its 2020 blog adds that where shipments aren't each monitored, "a very robust validation is required with clearly defined limits of validation".
How often do transport sensors need calibrating?
EU GDP 9.2 says at least once a year. Calibration for every sensor we supply: traceable to national standards as standard, or UKAS accredited where you need it (temperature in our own UKAS accredited calibration laboratory No. 10723). The certificate is attached to the sensor in Sematics for your review.
We use a courier. Who is responsible?
You are. EU GDP chapter 7 asks for a written contract, an assessment of the courier's competence and audits. We recommend the contract also requires the carrier to report any excursion to you within one working day, with the data (our recommendation; GDP sets no deadline).
Do you cover community healthcare vehicles?
Yes. Vehicles used by home healthcare and community teams can carry a tracker and Bluetooth sensors, or medicines can travel in tracked medicine boxes.
Reviewed by Jake Farrow, Managing Director, on 19 October 2026.
Sources
- EU Guidelines on Good Distribution Practice of medicinal products for human use (2013/C 343/01), applied in Great Britain by the MHRA
- The Human Medicines Regulations 2012, regulation 43 (wholesale dealer licence holders)
- MHRA: Good manufacturing practice and good distribution practice (GOV.UK)
- UKHSA, The Green Book, chapter 3: Storage, distribution and disposal of vaccines
- NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service: Temperature control whilst transporting medicines
Next step
Tell us about your fleet
How many vehicles, trailers and boxes, what they carry and which systems you use. We'll quote in writing, and say what integrates with your delivery and proof-of-delivery systems today.
Get a fleet quote
or call 0121 794 8092