A Low-Power Remote Information Monitoring System of Cold Chain Logistic Based on NB-IoT

Abstract

<p>With the development of information technology, cold chain logistics monitoring systems are widely used in transportation of fresh food to detect the quality parameters in real time. Poor network transmission performance, high packet loss rate and high maintenance cost are the main problems in the current cold chain logistics monitoring. To solve these problems, the paper presents a low-power monitoring system based on Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT). Considering the characteristics of the moving carriage, the polling mode of Bluetooth is proposed for the communication of one sink node to three sensor nodes. An improved working sequence is designed to reduce the power consumption of Bluetooth modules. Subsequently, analyzing the standard NB-IoT terminal state transition diagram, combining with the practical applications of cold chain logistics, an improved terminal state transition diagram is proposed and its terminal power consumption is analyzed. In the experimental test, the packet loss rate is less than 1% within 8 km. And the battery life of improved Bluetooth module is 143 times of that of traditional one. The power consumption of main service of NB-IoT is discussed, the formula is given which includes the transmission quality, random access times, number of concurrent users, sleep interval and other parameters. Through simulation and calculate, the battery life of terminal is up to 17 years. These improvements will greatly reduce the cost of cold chain logistics monitoring system. In addition, the packet loss rate test experiment proves the high reliability of the communication system.</p> <p> </p>