Intelligent Cargo

Abstract : The transport logistics sector is no exception, the 2,3,4 B.Tech, main issue in this domain
is for industrial applications that allow to tag, monitor and transmit information about the
freight along the whole transport chain, thus guaranteeing an efficient communication among the
supply chain for a prompt intervention and resolution in case of problems and in general
to increase the transport efficiency. In an interconnected world, the need to exchange information
across domain's boundaries is increasingly common, the concern is rapidly moving towards
defining the content that needs to be consumed by numerous and different actors using
different platforms and/or software solutions, since the internal processes have been consolidated
and optimized. The transport logistics sector is no exception, the main issue in this domain is for
industrial applications that allow to tag, monitor and transmit information about the freight along
the whole transport chain, thus guaranteeing an efficient communication among the supply chain for
a prompt intervention and resolution in case of problems and in general to increase the transport
efficiency.

Introduction : Transport and logistics act in a worldwide distributed business world as an aorta of
the economic system. The Logistics area has seen a huge growth in the last few years. This growth
is on the one hand a result of the globalization which has led to international supply chains
requiring sophisticate logistics concepts. The exponential growth of ecommerce has additionally
boosted the need for logistics concept. While the overall consignment number has increased the
consignment size has decreased, leading to more and smaller consignments that need to be
transported to different locations. The smaller consignments pose a huge problem to the logistics
services providers and their goal to keep the bundling of the consignments as long as possible in
order to enable the best usage of the transport vehicles with as much consignments as possible. This
goal hasn’t been reached so far and thus e.g. the utilization of trucks is in some countries lower than
70%.This rather weak utilization of the transport vehicles does not only pose an economic
problem to the logistics services providers as well as forwarders, but also poses a substantial
problem to our environment. The emissions caused by transport are still very high, as for example
within the transport sector accounted for 23% of total CO2 emissions, with road transport
generating 71% of total transport emissions in 2006, and are expected to increase until 2030. The
ultimate goal therefore has to be to increase the utilization of the transport vehicles.

Literature survey :
There are many contributions taking the “public transportation” perspective (i.e. the viewpoint of
public stakeholders), papers focusing on the “private transportation” perspective (i.e. the viewpoint
of the private companies offering logistics and transportation services) are fewer and relatively
more recent. Additionally, even though in recent years researchers have also started to examine the
decision‐making process of, many themes are under‐represented in literature, such as the subject of
integration among different application types, empirical research on the role of technology
providers in the adoption process. As far as the methodology is concerned, the review
revealed that many of the papers examined are either conceptual papers or empirical studies (i.e.
mostly based on surveys, or else on case studies or interviews), while simulation and modeling are
rarely present. While efforts were made to be all‐inclusive, significant research efforts may have
been inadvertently omitted. However, the authors believe that this review is an accurate
representation of the body of research on logistics and transportation companies published during
the specified timeframe, and feel that confidence may be placed on the resulting assessments.

System Implementation :
In this cargo logistics management system the system comprises of a transmitter and receiver
section. The transmitter arrangement is done at the Cargo vehicle. The receiver arrangement is done
at the Warehouse central section. The transmitter section depicted in the comprises of a GPS, GPRS,
Weight sensor, Arduino UNO, RFID system. The receiver section depicted and comprises of a
central server Raspberry Pi . In the receiver section, the Raspberry Pi 3 acts as a central server
gathering all the information from the cargo vehicle and dynamic data Updating is possible. The
collected data are arranged in the form of rows and columns in the database on the
web server. The Administrator has the facility to track the vehicle position, timestamps of loading
and unloading of goods in the cargo vehicle with the help of a web server.

Conclusion : This work focuses on real tracking of goods, cargo vehicles by using IoT and open
source hardware. By this system the cargo vehicle can be tracked from anywhere and can eliminate
the delay delivery and theft of vehicles. Hence this GPS and RFID integrated system suits best for
real time localization. In this logistics management system the technology used were efficient and
resulted in real time. By small alternation this system can be further enhanced and can extend its
services to other applications. we have implemented an intelligent cargo system for efficient
transportation of goods from a given source to destination. The sensors are simulated using the
route map. The most preferential route is taken in order to effectively maintain the state of the
product in the desirable state. Simulation is used to generate the trajectories of a route. As future
work real time situations like traffic, truck breakdown and catastrophic effects can be considered in
order to improve the results. In this paper we have implemented an intelligent cargo system for
efficient transportation of goods from a given source to destination. The most preferential route is
taken in order to effectively maintain the state of the product in the desirable state. The machine
learning algorithms like decision tree, K-Nearest Neighbors are used to learn from the past
experiences and decide on the best possible route to maintain the freshness of the products