An Information Framework for Internet of Things Services in Physical Internet
ABSTRACT
The Physical Internet (PI, or π) concept was developed to address the current unsustainability problem of logistics systems. The key physical elements in the PI include π -containers, π -nodes, and π -movers. The π -containers designed to be world-standard, smart, green, and modular are moved, handled, and stored throughout an open global logistic infrastructure. Meanwhile, the π -nodes and π -movers including physical systems and vehicles are designed to exploit as best as possible the characteristics of π -containers to facilitate material handling processes. Thus, the logistics industry vision is a key player poised to benefit from the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution since millions of π -containers with contained shipments being moved, tracked, and stored by a variety of the π -nodes and π -movers each day. This paper proposes firstly an information framework enabling IoT of the PI infrastructure and then a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for the IoT applied for providing the IoT logistics services for the PI. A case study utilizing the architecture is presented to illustrate an efficient management service of logistics operations in the PI.
EXISTING SYSTEM :
The intelligent logistics exploiting the intelligence concepts thanks to the integration of advanced information and communication technology (ICT) to improve the overall efficiency significantly in terms of security, physical flow management, automation of processes. One of key factors of such logistics vision is intelligent freight transportation system that uses the latest technologies, infrastructure, and services as well as the operations, planning and control methods to efficiently transporting freight. Such system is an effective solution to the significant transportation-related issues such as congestion, energy consumption, and environment. Simple Links is an alternative framework of intelligent logistics.
The primary demonstration results of the project imply the positive impact of project since it supports both ecological .Thus, the end-to-end visibility of shipment flow is improved by a cargo tracking system and economical value end-to-end. Another logistics visions termed as green logistics indicates methods that employ advanced technologies and innovated equipments to tackle the environment issues such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, noise and accidents mainly caused by inefficient logistics operations . To make the global logistics green, the environment aspect is concerned as the top priority in all logistics operations, in particular, transportation, warehousing and inventory operations.
PROPOSE SYSTEM :
This paper proposes firstly an information framework enabling IoT of the PI infrastructure and then a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for the IoT applied for providing the IoT logistics services for the PI. A case study utilizing the architecture is presented to illustrate an efficient management service of logistics operations in the PI.
This paper examines the trends of IoT applications in the PI and uncover various issues that must be addressed to transform logistics technologies through the IoT innovation. In this regard, the main contributions of paper are summarized as follows The PI paradigm accompanying the state-of-the-art developments of related projects are highlighted. In addition, the proposition design for the components of PI is introduced toward IoT application in the PI. Particularly, an active distributed system is proposed for the PIMS to enable smooth flows of the π containers through the π nodes. An information framework is proposed based on exploiting the IoT embedded in the physical devices of the PI and their active interaction. An service-oriented architecture (SOA) is proposed and described for IoT applied for the PI. Such SOA thenexploits the information framework to create and deliver IoT services for the PIMS. By adapting the proposed framework, a case study aiming at developing an IoT service is presented to illustrate an efficient management service of logistics operations in the PI.
CONCLUSION :
With rapid development in the emerging IoT technology, this paper proposes a design framework of developing an SOA for Physical Internet using IoT, which is actually motivated and strongly demanded from the logistics managers as they need the service provision to efficiently manage and control the logistics processes. In this context, we describe key infrastructure and proposition design mostly based on the advanced ICT innovation to enable IoT for such logistics domain. Furthermore, an IoT-enabled logistics service providing 3D layout of composite π -containers is presented as a case study to highlight the practical usage and merit of our proposed framework. PI is an innovative concept in logistics. Several researches and studies since 2011 have contributed to demonstrate and give the proof of concept. Looking to the future roadmap, the goal in 2020 is to realize interoperability between networks and ICT applications for logistics. Obviously, application of IoT into PI brings huge benefits in terms of economy, environment and society.
In other word, the IoT enables the PI achieve its global sustainability goal. However, deploying and realizing this revolution technology faces significant
challenges mostly from the technical perspectives. For instance, since the physical facilities of the PI are equipped with smart devices (e.g., RFID, sensors) usually powered by batteries, saving their energy to prolong their operation lifetime is important. These IoT devices can be requested any time to provide information for higher layer in the SOA to develop the services. Thus they may be active always. To reduce the power consumption the WSN nodes will be asleep (low-power mode) most of the time, and it will only wake up to acquire the sensor data or to talk to another node. Several important issues such as standardization, network type, the quality of service, and logistics data protection are expected to provide a basis for further research on IoT-based logistics services.