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creators_name: Abbate, Stefano
creators_name: Avvenuti, Marco
creators_name: Corsini, Paolo
creators_name: Vecchio, Alessio
creators_id: stefano.abbate@alumni.imtlucca.it
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title: Localization of Shipping Containers in Ports and Terminals Using Wireless Sensor Networks
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
keywords: GPS-based technology; RFID-based technology; logistics solutions; ports; shipping container localization; terminals; wireless communication; wireless sensor networks; containerisation; containers; goods distribution; logistics; wireless sensor networks.
abstract: The most advanced logistics solutions that are currently adopted in ports and terminals use RFID- and GPS-based technologies to identify and localize shipping containers in the yard. Nevertheless, because of the limits of these techniques, the position of containers is still affected by some errors or it cannot be determined in real-time. We propose a non-conventional approach where the position of containers can be continuously determined by means of a wireless sensor network. Each container is equipped with a number of nodes that use wireless communication to detect neighbor containers. At the base station, geometrical constraints and proximity data are combined together to determine the relative positions of containers.
date: 2009-08
volume: 2
publisher: IEEE
pagerange: 587 -592
event_title: Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. International Conference on
id_number: 10.1109/CSE.2009.168
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1-4244-5334-4
book_title: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE '09)
official_url: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5284225&isnumber=5282987
citation:   Abbate, Stefano and Avvenuti, Marco and Corsini, Paolo and Vecchio, Alessio  Localization of Shipping Containers in Ports and Terminals Using Wireless Sensor Networks.   In:  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE '09).   IEEE, 587 -592.  ISBN 978-1-4244-5334-4      (2009)