A growing demand for well‐defined telematics systems in the intelligent transport distribution of pharmaceutical drugs is envisaged driven by legislative demands to enable the safe handling of medicines in automotive distributions. The provision is accomplished by providing virtual intelligence to vehicles designated for this form of smart freight transportation. The system provides anytime/anywhere assets tracking while on the move, from departure to destination, supporting reliable courier operation at low labour. The tracking and tracing system provides the vehicle with sufficient intelligence to: be located remotely, track and trace assets and provide incidence reports. The authors’ architecture is intended to automatically broadcast adaptive logistic‐distribution‐plans between a central office and a vehicle. The proposed system represents an inexpensive and non‐intrusive solution that exploits advanced technologies such as smart environment sensing, radio frequency identification, Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) and global positioning system, to support modern industrial needs. The authors describe and discuss the motivation and the benefits of using the system, including new hardware and software developments.
Telematics system for the intelligent transport and distribution of medicines
IET Intelligent Transport Systems ; 7 , 1 ; 131-137
2013-03-01
7 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
pharmaceutical drugs , smart freight transportation , software development , goods distribution , adaptive logistic‐distribution‐plan , legislation , Global Positioning System , asset tracking , medicine , drugs , tracking system , intelligent transport distribution , smart environment sensing , transportation , pharmaceutical industry , drug delivery systems , tracking , WiFi , telematics system , legislative demands , logistics , medicine safe handling , automated highways , freight handling , vehicle , automotive distribution , planning , central office , courier operation , tracing system , virtual intelligence , radio frequency identification , hardware development
Telematics system for the intelligent transport and distribution of medicines
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