A System Architecture for Intelligent Logistics System

Conventional logistics information systems are usually designed case by case without consideration of many issues in fields of system elasticity, real time tracking service, information sharing and inter-working, vehicle routing optimization, customer interaction, security control, etc. In this paper, we investigate and propose a mobile cloud-based architecture for enrichment of existing logistics systems. The system architecture includes: customer interaction, distributed storage and computing, vehicle scheduling, restful-based interaction and transmission, security, mobile payment, etc. After that, prototype implementation and evaluation work are presented to show feasibility and efficiency of proposed solution.