Securing disaster supply chains with cryptography enhanced RFID

Disaster Prevention and Management

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-70

  Baldini, Gianmarco ^a   Oliveri, Franco ^a   Braun, Michael ^b   Seuschek, Hermann ^c   Hess, Erwin ^c  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Distribution management; Emergency response; Natural disasters; Radio frequency identification; Security; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857680642     PISSN: 09653562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09653561211202700     Document Type: Article

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