Real-time Monitoring and Controlling of Cold Storage Truck using IoT.

Computer Engineering

Refrigerator transportation is an essential component of the cold chain. The goal is to monitor the temperature and humidity inside the refrigerator trucks as well as manage the internal information of the refrigerator trucks. In this system, there is a design of an intelligent monitoring system based on the Internet of things, which realized monitoring temperature and humidity inside refrigerator trucks, as well as tracking the location of refrigerator trucks in real-time throughout the transportation process by using advanced technologies such as MQTT, Cloud Computing, sensor technology, and wireless communication technology. The proposed system included an ESP8266 as the main control unit, as well as a BME280, a Magnetic door Sensor, an RTC, and a GPS module. The system is extremely powerful in terms of monitoring refrigerated trucks from anywhere and at any time via a mobile application. This system will be able to control and monitor itself using a mobile and web application. With MQTT, we will achieve good results in data monitoring such as temperature, humidity, and door status. It is pleased with the performance of the designed refrigerated truck monitoring system as determined by monitoring system analysis and experiment results. Furthermore, the main advantages of this proposed system are that it reduces the human effort for manual monitoring and loss due to an uncontrolled environment.

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