Developing an Intelligent Traceability System for Aquatic Products in Cold Chain Logistics Integrated WSN with SPC

Abstract

Aquatic products are well received by customers from around the world. Quality and safety of aquatic products have attracted increasing attention, especially in emerging economies. Cased by actual aquatic products cold chain logistics, this article introduces the efforts for developing and evaluating the intelligent monitoring system for aquatic products (IMS-CS): an intelligent traceability system integrated wireless sensor network with statistical process control. Observations, interviews, literature review and experts’ questionnaires were used for system requirement and knowledge acquisition; actual aquatic products cold chain logistics scenario was applied to evaluate and validate the performance of IMS-CS. The results show that that the IMS-CS could trace and monitor the real time temperature fluctuation and the quality of aquatic products, which improve the transparency of the cold chain logistics and enables more effective control of the traceability, quality and safety. The valuable suggestion indicates that the process was under medium risk level and had potential to be improved. Practical Applications The proposed method could be exploited widely by future researchers or practitioners in cold chain monitoring and traceability tasks.