Abstract
Being the main pillar in the context of Industry 4.0, the Internet of Things (IoT) leads evolution towards a smarter and safer planet. Being human-centered, rather than machine-centered, as was the case of wireless sensor networks used in the industry for decades, the IoT may enhance human intelligence with situational awareness, early warning, and decision support tools. Focusing on air cargo transportation, the “INTELLICONT” project presented a novel solution capable of improving critical air cargo challenges such as the reduction of total aircraft weight, detection and suppression of smoke and/or fire in a container, elimination of permanent moving and locking hardware, loading and unloading logistics enhancement and maintenance. In the present work, the IoT-based monitoring and control system for intelligent aircraft cargo containers is presented from a hardware perspective. The system is based on low-cost, low-energy sensors that are integrated into the container, can track its status, and detect critical events, such as fire/smoke, impact, and accidental misuse. The focus has been given to the design and development of a system capable of providing better and safer control of the aircraft cargo during the loading/unloading operations and the flight. It is shown that the system could provide a breakthrough in the state of the art of current cargo container technology and aircraft cargo operations.
Highlights
In our previous work [33], we described from the software point of view the intelligent human–machine interface that provides a novel visualization tool for loading and flight crew
The objective of the current work is to describe from a hardware and embedded software perspective, the novel intelligent remote monitoring system (RMS) that enables the accurate acquisition of the status and condition of the Unit load devices (ULDs) as well as the fast and secure transportation of relevant data to the human–machine interface (HMI) and the loading/unloading robotic platform and status placement of aircraft cargo
The aviation industry is continually evolving in the context of Industry 4.0
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Since its conceptualization in the early 1980s, the Internet of Things (IoT), has revolutionized the way people work, move, trade, communicate or even live. Concepts such as smart cities [1], smart factories [2], or smart agriculture [3] are part of our daily lives with a great impact on circular production [4] and blue growth [5], among others. Advances in technologies such as 5G and parallel processing as well as data analysis techniques (i.e., machine learning, deep learning) enable the design and operation of large-scale digital manufacturing processes [6] and digital twins, even of an entire city [7]. A comprehensive review of the current state of the art of the IoT is provided in [8], while an overview of architectures and applications of industrial IoT (IioT)
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