A Smart and Secure Logistics System Based on IoT and Cloud Technologies

Abstract

Recently, one of the hottest topics in the logistics sector has been the traceability of goods and the monitoring of their condition during transportation. Perishable goods, such as fresh goods, have specifically attracted attention of the researchers that have already proposed different solutions to guarantee quality and freshness of food through the whole cold chain. In this regard, the use of Internet of Things (IoT)-enabling technologies and its specific branch called edge computing is bringing different enhancements thereby achieving easy remote and real-time monitoring of transported goods. Due to the fast changes of the requirements and the difficulties that researchers can encounter in proposing new solutions, the fast prototype approach could contribute to rapidly enhance both the research and the commercial sector. In order to make easy the fast prototyping of solutions, different platforms and tools have been proposed in the last years, however it is difficult to guarantee end-to-end security at all the levels through such platforms. For this reason, based on the experiments reported in literature and aiming at providing support for fast-prototyping, end-to-end security in the logistics sector, the current work presents a solution that demonstrates how the advantages offered by the Azure Sphere platform, a dedicated hardware (i.e., microcontroller unit, the MT3620) device and Azure Sphere Security Service can be used to realize a fast prototype to trace fresh food conditions through its transportation. The proposed solution guarantees end-to-end security and can be exploited by future similar works also in other sectors.

Performance of cold chain logistics service providers in the fast-moving consumer goods industry in Nigeria: a systematic review

“…27 [28] Used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and robust regression approach in secondary data from the annual study published by Revista Tecnologística (years 2008-2016) to determine the variables that significantly affect the efficiency of third-party logistics (3PL) providers of refrigeration services 22 [29] Use of physics-based digital twins, namely virtual representations of the food products 21 [30] An Internet of Things analysis framework for assessing overall performance. Simulation results confirm the performance of this method 21 [31] RFID logistics pilot III (RLP3) project, which has dealt with the deployment of the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology and the development of an IT infrastructure for the management of the real-time data collected in a fresh food supply chain 20 [32] SMART freezing technology includes new and intelligent technologies and concepts applied to the pretreatment of the frozen product, freezing processes, cold chain logistics as well as warehouse management 18 [33] Internet of Things (IoT)-enabling technologies and its specific branch called edge computing is bringing different enhancements (Azure Sphere platform) 17 [34] Use of a detailed equation in an analytic model to carry out the computation of the economic and environmental sustainability,…”

A systematic and critical review of Internet of Things in contemporary hospitality: a roadmap and avenues for future research

“…Besides, fresh food conditions are monitored through the Azure Sphere platform, a dedicated hardware (i.e. microcontroller unit, the MT3620) device and Azure Sphere security service (Sergi et al , 2021). Another pioneering IoT application in the foodservice and logistics is the use of smart refrigerators to avoid food spoilage (Jain et al , 2022).…”

ReSOTS: RFID/IoT-enabled Secure Object Tracking Key Exchange for Trustworthy Smart Logistics

“…Recently, a few authentication protocols for IoT-oriented industrial applications and smart logistics can be witnessed [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]. Li et al [5] presented an authentication protocol for industrial IoT gadgets based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC).…”

“…Next, Fan et al [11] presented an ultra-lightweight RFID authentication scheme for mobile commerce. Onwards, Sergi et al [12] designed a secure authenticated key exchange technique for IoT-based smart logistics system. Then, Zhang et al [13] put forward a novel lightweight authentication model from drones environment, nevertheless the presented model could not support forward secrecy for the engaged participants.…”