IVAN: intelligent van for the distribution of pharmaceutical drugs.
This paper describes a telematic system based on an intelligent van which is capable of tracing pharmaceutical drugs over delivery routes from a warehouse to pharmacies, without altering carriers' daily conventional tasks. The intelligent van understands its environment, taking into account its location, the assets and the predefined delivery route; with the capability of reporting incidences to carriers in case of failure according to the established distribution plan. It is a non-intrusive solution which represents a successful experience of using smart environments and an optimized Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) embedded system in a viable way to resolve a real industrial need in the pharmaceutical industry. The combination of deterministic modeling of the indoor vehicle, the implementation of an ad-hoc radiating element and an agile software platform within an overall system architecture leads to a competitive, flexible and scalable solution.
Deusto Institute of Technology (DeustoTech), University of Deusto, Bilbao 48007, Spain. asier.moreno@deusto.es
Asier
A
Moreno
Ignacio
I
Angulo
Asier
A
Perallos
Hugo
H
Landaluce
Ignacio Julio
IJ
García Zuazola
Leire
L
Azpilicueta
José Javier
JJ
Astrain
Francisco
F
Falcone
Jesús
J
Villadangos
D018986:Motor Vehicles; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D011846:Radio Waves
D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations