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Containers Monitoring Through The Physical Internet: A Spatial 3d Model Based On Wireless Sensor Networks |
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The Physical Internet concept was developed to address the current unsustainability problem of logistic systems. The key elements are the encapsulation and the handling of world-standard smart green modular containers (pi-containers) throughout an open global logistic infrastructure. Logistic processes such as partial loading/unloading or splitting/merging of pi-containers play an important role for a successful Physical Internet. However, the large variety of transformation processes can introduce desynchronisation between the physical and informational flows, i.e. the real composition of a composite pi-container (a set of stacked pi-containers) can differ of the information stored in the supply chain management system. To overcome this problem, this paper proposes a system to generate and maintain automatically a virtual three-dimensional layout reflecting the spatial distribution of pi-containers. The proposed approach uses smart pi-containers equipped with wireless sensor nodes. The relative position of pi-containers can be determined by the neighbourhood relationships between the sensor nodes. From this information, a constraint set is formulated in a Constraint Satisfaction Problem where each solution is a potential loading pattern. The methodology is developed and computational experiments are proposed, as a proof-of-concept. The results show that our proposed method yields quick and satisfactory results. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2017 | 10.1080/00207543.2016.1206220 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
logistics, Physical Internet, smart containers, spatial representation, sensor network | Journal | 55 |
Issue | ISSN | Citations |
9 | 0020-7543 | 2 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.36 | 2 | 3 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Hoa Tran-Dang | 1 | 13 | 4.85 |
Nicolas Krommenacker | 2 | 91 | 9.45 |
Patrick Charpentier | 3 | 5 | 1.76 |