Monitoring Food Quality in Supply Chain Logistics

摘要

Food is indispensable for human survival and should be cared utmost. This paper monitors perishable food packaging quality over a supply chain logistics and helps to act fast to save perishable foods over the route. Internet of things signifies that the things which surround us and help us to live better and healthy life, those are connected via computer systems and Internet wirelessly, can communicate within themselves and also with the master node and exchange data. Those things can be devices, sensors, appliances, machines, etc. The location of containers has global positioning system (GPS) and is monitored remotely over a cloud. The perishable food items are in a container having environment indicators like temperature and humidity sensors. The communication aspect is critical for the better work scenario, precautionary measures, and monitoring energy consumption too. Any security or risk hazard can be prevented if we can analyze and study that data continuously or periodically from any remote site.