Architecture Design of Internet of Things in Logistics Management for Emergency Response

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect individual smart "network enabled" objects to the Internet using wireless/wired technologies for secure and efficient deployment of services using these objects. Since the concept of the IoT was put forward in 2005, we see the deployment of a new generation of networked objects with communication, with sensory and action capabilities for numerous applications, mainly in global supply chain management, environment monitoring and mobile target tracking. One of the scientific and technical challenges in the design of the IoT is the architecture design, which enables the interconnection of trillions of smart objects. This paper employs radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor networks as smart "network enabled" objects and proposes a service-oriented IoT architecture for logistics management. The core components of this system are Domain Sensor Name Server, Sensor Service Publisher, Historical Database and RFID sensor networks. Using emergency response operation as a case study, this paper demonstrates the possible implementation and strategic values of the IoT architecture in logistics management.