IVAN: Intelligent van for the distribution of pharmaceutical drugs
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10.3390/s120506587
Resumen
This paper describes a telematic system based on an intelligent van which is capable of tracing pharmaceutical drugs over delivery routes from a warehouse to pharmacies, without altering carriers' daily conventional tasks. The intelligent van understands its environment, taking into account its location, the assets and the predefined delivery route; with the capability of reporting incidences ...
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This paper describes a telematic system based on an intelligent van which is capable of tracing pharmaceutical drugs over delivery routes from a warehouse to pharmacies, without altering carriers' daily conventional tasks. The intelligent van understands its environment, taking into account its location, the assets and the predefined delivery route; with the capability of reporting incidences to carriers in case of failure according to the established distribution plan. It is a non-intrusive solution which represents a successful experience of using smart environments and an optimized Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) embedded system in a viable way to resolve a real industrial need in the pharmaceutical industry. The combination of deterministic modeling of the indoor vehicle, the implementation of an ad-hoc radiating element and an agile software platform within an overall system architecture leads to a competitive, flexible and scalable solution. [--]
Materias
Intelligent van,
Pharmaceutical drugs traceability,
Incidences reporting,
Non intrusive,
RFID,
Wireless technologies,
Deterministic 3D ray launching
Editor
MDPI
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Sensors, 2012, 12(5). Págs. 6587-6609
Departamento
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica /
Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática e Informática /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa eta Elektronikoa Saila /
Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa. Matematika eta Informatika Ingeniaritza Saila
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This work has been funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain under INNPACTO funding program (RailTrace project, IPT-370000-2010-036).