The "intelligent container" - A cognitive sensor network for transport management

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 688-698

  Lang, Walter ^a   Jedermann, Reiner ^a   Mrugala, Damian ^a   Jabbari, Amir ^a   Krieg Brückner, Bernd ^a,b   Schill, Kerstin ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^c Department of Cognitive Neuroinformatics ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive systems; cool chain telemetric; intelligent container

Indexed keywords

COOL-CHAIN TELEMETRIC; DECENTRALIZED DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; FRUIT AND VEGETABLES; INTELLIGENT CONTAINER; LOGISTIC PROCESS; MEASUREMENT INTERVAL; QUALITY LOSS; SELF EVALUATION; SENSOR DATA; SENSOR DATA HANDLING; SENSOR DENSITY; TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT;

CONTAINERS; DATA HANDLING; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; POSITION MEASUREMENT; PROCESS CONTROL; SENSOR NETWORKS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79251631252     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2060480     Document Type: Article

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