Cargo Container Monitoring Data Reliability Evaluation in WSN Nodes

摘要

Application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technology for cargo container condition monitoring plays an important role in raising the efficiency of cargo transport operations [1]. In general, the container monitoring WSN consists of sensors inside the containers. Sensors constantly report on the transport conditions and transmit the information to the integrated network database. Such application has a lot in common with robotic movements' control [2] and other industry production processes [3] and therefore, may have the same stochastic process control methods applied to them to measure acquired data reliability. As an example: external climatic conditions have a decisive impact upon the climatic conditions inside containers (temperature fluctuations). External climatic conditions are in particular determined by the transport route, season, the time of day and the current weather.