Moreno, AsierAngulo Martínez, IgnacioPerallos Ruiz, AsierLandaluce, HugoGarcía Zuazola, Ignacio JulioAzpilicueta Fernández de las Heras, LeyreAstrain Escola, José JavierFalcone Lanas, Francisco JavierVilladangos Alonso, Jesús2014-06-052014-06-0520121424-822052410.3390/s120506587https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/10747This 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.application/pdfeng© 2012 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).Intelligent vanPharmaceutical drugs traceabilityIncidences reportingNon intrusiveRFIDWireless technologiesDeterministic 3D ray launchingArtículo / ArtikuluaAcceso abierto / Sarbide irekiainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess