摘要:
The present method refers to the development of attachments to be incorporated inside the product bulk, such as food products, for the effective continuous detection and recording of temperature changes that denote faulty maintenance conditions during the storage of the product, its transport and distribution. Both detection and recording of specific temperature changes are effected with this method based on the change of shape of the so-called "Shape Memory Alloys" (SMA). The latter, change their shape in specific ways in response to temperature changes outside a predefined range, while when coated with other materials, such as plastic polymers or TiO 2 , they change their colour after their geometric state -e.g. contraction or dilation- has been transformed. Their cost is very low compared with the products that their safe maintenance is detected and recorded and no external power source is required, so that they can be directly attached to the product, closely monitoring its actual life-long maintenance temperatures.