Authors:
G. E. Biccario
;
V. F. Annese
;
S. Cipriani
and
D. De Venuto
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Keyword(s):
Environmental Control, Food Safety, Food Certification, Shelf Life Prediction, Wireless Sensor Network.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Control and Supervision Systems
;
Environmental Monitoring and Control
;
Industrial Engineering
;
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics
;
Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization
;
Optimization Algorithms
;
Quality Control and Management
;
Real-Time Systems Control
;
Robotics and Automation
;
Signal Processing, Sensors, Systems Modeling and Control
Abstract:
This position paper aims to support a control technique in the perishables goods supply-chain through a combination of near real-time wireless sensor network (WSN) for environmental monitoring and further data processing to predict the shelf life of the product. This approach returns a low cost, versatile and efficient tool that can significantly improve the safety and food certification through the organoleptic qualities control using three different sensors, i.e. temperature, light and humidity. In this article, therefore, the advantages of the proposed technique are explained and a case study is presented to support this approach, as well as an example of processing algorithm for shelf life evaluation.