Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real Conditions
Quality control and monitoring of perishable goods during transportation and delivery services is an increasing concern for producers, suppliers, transport decision makers and consumers. The major challenge is to ensure a continuous ‘cold chain’ from producer to consumer in order to guaranty prime c...
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| author | Luis Ruiz-Garcia Pilar Barreiro Jose Ignacio Robla Loredana Lunadei |
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| description | Quality control and monitoring of perishable goods during transportation and delivery services is an increasing concern for producers, suppliers, transport decision makers and consumers. The major challenge is to ensure a continuous ‘cold chain’ from producer to consumer in order to guaranty prime condition of goods. In this framework, the suitability of ZigBee protocol for monitoring refrigerated transportation has been proposed by several authors. However, up to date there was not any experimental work performed under real conditions. Thus, the main objective of our experiment was to test wireless sensor motes based in the ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 protocol during a real shipment. The experiment was conducted in a refrigerated truck traveling through two countries (Spain and France) which means a journey of 1,051 kilometers. The paper illustrates the great potential of this type of motes, providing information about several parameters such as temperature, relative humidity, door openings and truck stops. Psychrometric charts have also been developed for improving the knowledge about water loss and condensation on the product during shipments. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1a67a938f4b14802acae27ae89fc6c882022-12-22T04:09:45ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202010-05-011054968498210.3390/s100504968Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real ConditionsLuis Ruiz-GarciaPilar BarreiroJose Ignacio RoblaLoredana LunadeiQuality control and monitoring of perishable goods during transportation and delivery services is an increasing concern for producers, suppliers, transport decision makers and consumers. The major challenge is to ensure a continuous ‘cold chain’ from producer to consumer in order to guaranty prime condition of goods. In this framework, the suitability of ZigBee protocol for monitoring refrigerated transportation has been proposed by several authors. However, up to date there was not any experimental work performed under real conditions. Thus, the main objective of our experiment was to test wireless sensor motes based in the ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 protocol during a real shipment. The experiment was conducted in a refrigerated truck traveling through two countries (Spain and France) which means a journey of 1,051 kilometers. The paper illustrates the great potential of this type of motes, providing information about several parameters such as temperature, relative humidity, door openings and truck stops. Psychrometric charts have also been developed for improving the knowledge about water loss and condensation on the product during shipments.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/10/5/4968/ZigBeewireless sensingcold chainlogisticsfood |
| spellingShingle | Luis Ruiz-Garcia Pilar Barreiro Jose Ignacio Robla Loredana Lunadei Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real Conditions Sensors ZigBee wireless sensing cold chain logistics food |
| title | Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real Conditions |
| title_full | Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real Conditions |
| title_fullStr | Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real Conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real Conditions |
| title_short | Testing ZigBee Motes for Monitoring Refrigerated Vegetable Transportation under Real Conditions |
| title_sort | testing zigbee motes for monitoring refrigerated vegetable transportation under real conditions |
| topic | ZigBee wireless sensing cold chain logistics food |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/10/5/4968/ |
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