An Architecture for Reliable Transportation of Delicate Goods.

摘要: Adequate conditions are critical to avoiding damage or degradation of products during transportation, especially in the case delicate goods like food products, live animals, precision machinery art items, among others. The damages not always readily identified: sometimes they only detected several days weeks after merchandise has been delivered. Moreover, it may be hard assess if problems resulted from transport conditions, and even harder prove it, making difficult determine assign responsibilities. Also, is a global business, typically involving different companies means (truck, train, plane, ship, …). Usually, customers hire service single commercial entity, but performed by companies, transporters, stockists dispatchers. To know whether requirements fulfilled thus essential assessing responsibilities encouraging compliance all players process. In this paper, authors propose an architecture that allows certifying, exempt manner, under which sensitive carried out. compliance, protects entities chain ensures customer subject have affected its integrity quality. If detected, identify non-compliant solution based on ultra-low-power, low-cost devices (equipped with sensors, real-time clock, Bluetooth Low Energy services), mobile application cloud services (including Coordinated Universal Time service).