Smart Sensing, Communication, and Control in Perishable Food Supply Chain
Smart Sensing, Communication, and Control in Perishable Food Supply Chain
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10.1145/3360726
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2020-01
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Amitangshu Pal;K. Kant
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作者：
Amitangshu Pal;K. Kant
新鲜食品的运输和配送（T8D）是全球经济活动中一个重要且日益增长的部分。不幸的是，新鲜食品T8D不仅遭受严重的腐败和浪费，而且由于从收获的食物到交付给零售商之间的严格运输时间限制，效率也很低。新鲜食品也很容易被污染，与变质的新鲜食品一起是导致许多食源性疾病的原因。物流运作正在经历多方面的快速变革，包括物流运作的信息技术注入，实物产品处理的自动化，标签、寻址和包装的标准化，以及第三方物流（3PL）及相关模式下的共享物流运作。在本文中，我们讨论了如何利用这些发展将生鲜食品物流转变为一个由在线监控和相关操作控制驱动的智能网络物理系统，以提高食品的新鲜度和安全性，减少食品浪费，提高T8D效率。在此背景下讨论的一些问题包括生鲜食品质量变质过程、食品质量/污染传感技术、通过具有挑战性的生鲜食品介质传输传感数据的通信技术、T8D管道的智能管理以及各种其他操作问题。本文的目的是促进在这个重要的新兴领域的进一步研究，它位于计算和物流的交叉点。
Transportation and distribution (T8D) of fresh food products is a substantial and increasing part of the economic activities throughout the world. Unfortunately, fresh food T8D not only suffers from significant spoilage and waste, but also from dismal efficiency due to tight transit timing constraints between the availability of harvested food until its delivery to the retailer. Fresh food is also easily contaminated, and together with deteriorated fresh food is responsible for much of food-borne illnesses. The logistics operations are undergoing rapid transformation on multiple fronts, including infusion of information technology in the logistics operations, automation in the physical product handling, standardization of labeling, addressing and packaging, and shared logistics operations under 3rd party logistics (3PL) and related models. In this article, we discuss how these developments can be exploited to turn fresh food logistics into an intelligent cyberphysical system driven by online monitoring and associated operational control to enhance food freshness and safety, reduce food waste, and increase T8D efficiency. Some of the issues discussed in this context are fresh food quality deterioration processes, food quality/contamination sensing technologies, communication technologies for transmitting sensed data through the challenging fresh food media, intelligent management of the T8D pipeline, and various other operational issues. The purpose of this article is to stimulate further research in this important emerging area that lies at the intersection of computing and logistics.