EPCIS based online temperature monitoring and traceability in a cold meat chain

Thakur, Maitri; Forås, Eskil

doi:10.1016/j.compag.2015.07.006

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“…The system also ensured that the food was in good condition and safe to eat [9]. Furthermore, Thakur and Foras (2015) have developed an EPCIS-based online system for time-temperature monitoring in a cold meat chain [10]. The system was tested during the transportation of chilled lamb products and temperature sensor data was collected from RFID-based temperature sensors.…”

Section: Monitoring System In Food Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Real-Time Monitoring System Using Smartphone-Based Sensors and NoSQL Database for Perishable Supply Chain

2017

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Abstract:Since customer attention is increasing due to growing customer health awareness, it is important for the perishable food supply chain to monitor food quality and safety. This study proposes a real-time monitoring system that utilizes smartphone-based sensors and a big data platform. Firstly, we develop a smartphone-based sensor to gather temperature, humidity, GPS, and image data. The IoT-generated sensor on the smartphone has characteristics such as a large amount of storage, an unstructured format, and continuous data generation. Thus, in this study, we propose an effective big data platform design to handle IoT-generated sensor data. Furthermore, the abnormal sensor data generated by failed sensors is called outliers and may arise in real cases. The proposed system utilizes outlier detection based on statistical and clustering approaches to filter out the outlier data. The proposed system was evaluated for system and gateway performance and tested on the kimchi supply chain in Korea. The results showed that the proposed system is capable of processing a massive input/output of sensor data efficiently when the number of sensors and clients increases. The current commercial smartphones are sufficiently capable of combining their normal operations with simultaneous performance as gateways for transmitting sensor data to the server. In addition, the outlier detection based on the 3-sigma and DBSCAN were used to successfully detect/classify outlier data as separate from normal sensor data. This study is expected to help those who are responsible for developing the real-time monitoring system and implementing critical strategies related to the perishable supply chain.

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Section: Monitoring System In Food Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Real-Time Monitoring System Using Smartphone-Based Sensors and NoSQL Database for Perishable Supply Chain

2017

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“…RFID enables the identification of nearby objects or people by means of radio frequency (RF) signals (Hancke 2011;Peets et al 2009;Vales-Alonso et al 2011), and has become an indispensable technology in inventory tracking, object location, animal tracking, and environmental monitoring with the development of low-cost passive RFID tags (Awad 2016;Fan et al 2013;Thakur and Forås 2015). Similar ideas could be adopted to monitor sprayer movement in an orchard or a vineyard.…”

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An RFID-based solution for monitoring sprayer movement in an orchard/vineyard

2017

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Pesticide application monitoring and long-term data recording in the field is typically the first step in fruit traceability. In a spray monitoring and guiding system, identification of the sprayer movement is a key part of technology. Although Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is a widely used system to obtain location information, in an orchard/vineyard, especially one in which the trees/plants have tall and large canopies, the continuity and stability of the GNSS signal may decrease dramatically and lead to failure of guidance. A Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID) solution for identifying sprayer travel was proposed, and a spray monitoring and guiding system was designed based on this solution. In-lab system simulation test and field test results showed that the system could distinguish the travel direction of the sprayer, identify its location in the field, record flow rate information, calculate sprayed volume, and show all the above information on a computer screen in real-time when the RFID reader had successfully registered each RFID card. For the monitoring and guiding system with one antenna on each side, which required the cards and the antennas to be at the same height, the best relative position was found by placing the card parallel to the antenna. The results of tests in the field showed that an improved system with two antennas on each side, which only required the cards to be put in the band with a width of 0.26 m between the centers of the two antennas, worked better with the best antenna angle of 125°when the speed of the sprayer was less than 1.8 m/s.

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“…Modern food chains entail multiple products with multiple temperature requirements, defying the notion of "one size fits all." Food contamination depends on external factors (humidity, temperature) and internal factors (microbial contamination and composition) as well as the duration of exposure to these conditions (Thakur and Forås, 2015). Chen et al, 2016 identified that uncertain factors, such as weather, temperature, and customer preferences, influence the demand for agriculture products.…”

Section: Cold Chain Storage Requirement and Coordination Concernsmentioning

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“…Various studies have employed databases and online application of temperature monitoring through the application of temperature monitoring technologies. Thakur and Forås (2015) developed an approach for online temperature monitoring and traceability in a cold chain.…”

Section: Analyzing Real-time Data In the Cold Chain Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Cold chain configuration design: location-allocation decision-making using coordination, value deterioration, and big data approximation

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The study proposes a cold chain location-allocation configuration decision model for shippers and customers by considering value deterioration and coordination by using big data approximation.Value deterioration is assessed in terms of limited shelf life, opportunity cost, and units of product transportation. In this study, a customer can be defined as a member of any cold chain, such as cold warehouse stores, retailers, and last mile service providers. Each customer only manages products that are in a certain stage of the product life cycle, which is referred to as the expected shelf life. Because of the geographical dispersion of customers and their unpredictable demands as well as the varying shelf life of products, complexity is another challenge in a cold chain.Improved coordination between shippers and customers is expected to reduce this complexity, and this is introduced in the model as a longitudinal factor for service distance requirement. We use big data information that reflects geospatial attributes of location to derive the real feasible distance between shippers and customers. We formulate the cold chain location-allocation decision problem as a mixed integer linear programming problem, which is solved using the CPLEX solver.The proposed decision model increases efficiency, adequately equates supply and demand, and reduces wastage. Our study encourages managers to ship full truck load consignments, to be aware of uneven allocation based on proximity, and to supervise heterogeneous product allocation according to storage requirements.

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EPCIS based online temperature monitoring and traceability in a cold meat chain

Cited by 66 publications

References 19 publications

Real-Time Monitoring System Using Smartphone-Based Sensors and NoSQL Database for Perishable Supply Chain

Real-Time Monitoring System Using Smartphone-Based Sensors and NoSQL Database for Perishable Supply Chain

An RFID-based solution for monitoring sprayer movement in an orchard/vineyard

Cold chain configuration design: location-allocation decision-making using coordination, value deterioration, and big data approximation

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