Remote container monitoring with wireless networking and Cyber-Physical System

It is an important and urgent task to achieve remote container monitoring and management when the containers are being transported anytime, anywhere. For this purpose, this paper first proposes a wireless networking system suitable for collecting and transmitting the status and location information of the transported containers. The proposed wireless networking system integrates RFID, sensors, ZigBee, cellular mobile network, and satellite mobile network to support both local data collection and remote data transmission. Furthermore, this paper proposes a Cyber-Physical System (CPS) model to provide a higher level control approach for managing the container transportation. Finally, this paper reports a prototype system developed to evaluate the feasibility and validity of our proposals.