Ambient Intelligence: Awareness Context Application in Industrial Storage

Abstract

WSNs are designed to efficiently collect data and monitor environments, among other applications. This article describes the concept and realization of an Active Security System for security management of warehousing of chemical substances using WSNs. We present an approach to modeling and simulating cooperation between intelligent products that are equipped with a platform of sensor networks and ambient communication capabilities to increase their security, in a context of ambient intelligence of a deposit for chemical substances. Behavior evolution of every intelligent product is modeled by hierarchical Petri Nets. The simulation of the model is implemented in the Castalia-OMNET++ Tools language

RFID IoT-enabled warehouse for safety management using product class-based storage and potential fields methods

“…In Tsamis et al (2015), the chocolate storage situation was explained by the fact that milk chocolate and dark chocolate products should not be allocated in neighbouring slots in order to sustain their quality. This situation occurs also in hazardous industrial warehouses of chemical products (Zouinkhi et al, 2011) or nuclear reactors (Hasan, 2007) where incompatibilities between products must be respected. In our work context, chemical products can react violently when they are in contact.…”

“…Thus they introduced a new naming of 'smart thing' that is to be understood as an umbrella term for which smart product and intelligent product are considered as special forms in different application domains. Other authors as Zaeh et al 2010, Dhebar (1996), Rijsdijk (2009), Kiritsis (2011), Liu (2010), López and Ranasinghe (2009), Niskanen (2011) and Zouinkhi et al (2011) had provided various context-application dependent definitions that can be seized to design and model smart object in multiple research areas such as the IoT, ambient intelligence, robotics and process automation. The use of different naming to handle the communicating object concept is a drawback and somehow a brake to a large adoption and understanding of the underlying paradigm.…”

A communicating object’s approach for smart logistics and safety issues in warehouses

“…The operator safety is threatened by manual material handling during non-routine operations. The safety level during handling can be improved through techniques and tools that permit controlling and monitoring the interactions between operators and materials (Zouinkhi et al, 2011).…”