Simulation of cold chain traceability based on RFID and WSN

Author

Nabiha, Saidi ; Ezzeddine, Tahar

Author_Institution

Nat. Sch. of Eng. of Tunis, Univ. Tunis EL-Manar, Tunis, Tunisia

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The traceability is a means to minimize the size of recalls and the production process. It is an emergent topic of research to improve the production efficiency. Some governments force the traceability on companies like a management tool of the risks in order to protect the public health. The objective of this work is to evaluate the impact of the RFID and WSN on traceability. We presented a categorization of traceability methods in this paper and we simulated a model of cold chain traceability to focus on RFID and WSN efficiency. Results show that these technologies decrease the inventory period and the numbers of recalls by decreasing the number of withdraw of foods.

Keywords

manufacturing processes; production management; radiofrequency identification; wireless sensor networks; RFID; WSN; cold chain traceability; inventory period; management tool; production process; traceability methods; Dispersion; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Radiofrequency identification; Supply chains; Wireless sensor networks; ARENA; RFID; cold chain monitoring; traceability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Web Applications and Networking (WSWAN), 2015 2nd World Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-8171-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSWAN.2015.7210337

Filename

7210337