Oxygen Cylinders Management Architecture Based on Internet of Things

Supply chain processes are being redefined and enhanced with the use of technologies based on the Internet of Things. This work presents an example of as an industrial process such as oxygen cylinders refilling and evaluation is enhanced with the use of the technologies from the Internet of Things such as RFID and 6LoWPAN, defining novel services which bring closer the industrial world to the Future Internet. Right now, the management of the oxygen cylinders is a simple task, where only some information about the oxygen cylinder is retrieved and manually managed by the operator. In this work is proposed a management application architecture for, on the one hand, automatic oxygen cylinders identification and classification, satisfying both traceability and monitoring requirements during the production process, and on the other hand, defining new management services to the operator, and for the checking of status and reception of notifications to the customer. In order to reach this, oxygen cylinders have been RFID tagged, and a Wireless Personal Device has been developed, in order to offer 6LoWPAN connectivity and an intuitive LCD touch screen for interacting with the RFID-HF reader.