Recent Temple graduate Russell Abernethy worked on a project with AmerisourceBergen, based in Conshohocken, during his senior year, gaining some real-life tech experience, writes Sarah Huffman for Technical.ly.

The project was through Temple’s Digital Innovation Foundry, which is a part of the Fox School of Business’ Institute for Business and Information Technology.

It connects students and faculty with companies to solver their problems by prototyping digital technologies. The project also gives the students hands-on professional experience.

The problem the team needed to solve was how to better keep track of and retrain the reusable totes that are used to distribute pharmaceutical products.

Their solution was to use Bluetooth tags in each tote and a Raspberry Pi device to collect signals from the tags.

“Then all this information would get sent to a visualization platform we used…to visualize all of the last known locations of all the Bluetooth low-energy tags,” Abernathy said.

Read more about the project at Technical.ly.

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