TY - GEN
T1 - Experimental Investigation of A Real-time Monitoring System for Cold Chain Logistics
AU - Wu, Wei
AU - Zhao, Fanyi
AU - Ma, Chenwen
AU - Huang, George Q.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/8
Y1 - 2020/8
N2 - In the cold chain logistics, a demand for capturing the real-time condition of products during delivery has increased notedly to assure product quality and satisfy customer's needs. In this study, an automation system assisted with IoT technologies to obtain timely temperature and humidity data inside a storage box has been developed. Also, its performance concerning signal transmission and adaptability in changing surroundings are tested in a comprehensive way. Five experimental scenarios are introduced to evaluate the effects of different potential influence factors on the overall performance, including interference among smart gateways, the configuration of gateways, the phenomenon of condensation, indoor movement, and outdoor movement. It simulates the actual case that nurses take storage boxes from the medicine warehouse to patients' rooms to dispatch drugs. Practical findings and insights have been disclosed so that they can be applied to designing and upgrading systems of similar features.
AB - In the cold chain logistics, a demand for capturing the real-time condition of products during delivery has increased notedly to assure product quality and satisfy customer's needs. In this study, an automation system assisted with IoT technologies to obtain timely temperature and humidity data inside a storage box has been developed. Also, its performance concerning signal transmission and adaptability in changing surroundings are tested in a comprehensive way. Five experimental scenarios are introduced to evaluate the effects of different potential influence factors on the overall performance, including interference among smart gateways, the configuration of gateways, the phenomenon of condensation, indoor movement, and outdoor movement. It simulates the actual case that nurses take storage boxes from the medicine warehouse to patients' rooms to dispatch drugs. Practical findings and insights have been disclosed so that they can be applied to designing and upgrading systems of similar features.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094107067&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CASE48305.2020.9216739
DO - 10.1109/CASE48305.2020.9216739
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85094107067
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
SP - 1201
EP - 1206
BT - 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2020
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 16th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, CASE 2020
Y2 - 20 August 2020 through 21 August 2020
ER -