KR20130046258A - System for administration of physical distribution based on transport container - Google Patents

Abstract

Instead of recognizing RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags of individual items in the point-to-point transport phase, a transport container-based logistics management system is disclosed to increase the recognition rate and improve the efficiency of logistics management by scanning and recognizing only the RFID of the transport container. .
The disclosed container-based logistics management system includes: an article unit which is a collection of individual goods with an RFID tag having product information and a unique identification number; A transport container for accommodating the individual goods and having an RFID tag with a unique identification number; A factory RFID reader positioned at a factory base and reading an RFID tag attached to the individual product and an RFID tag attached to a transport container; A shipping terminal for mapping the RFID tag information of the individual goods read from the shipping RFID reader and the RFID tag information of the transport container to generate relationship information between the goods and the transport container, and storing them in a central server through a network; A wearable RFID reader positioned at a receiving point and reading an RFID tag attached to the transport container; It is provided with a receiving terminal connected to the central server through the network to receive the information of the transport container, and determines the receipt of the transport container by comparing the transport container information read from the incoming RFID reader and the received transport container information. do.

Description

System for administration of physical distribution based on transport container}

The present invention relates to a transport container-based logistics management system, and more specifically, by recognizing only the RFID of the transport container by scanning the RFID instead of recognizing RFID tags of individual items in the point-to-point transport step, the recognition rate is increased and the logistics is increased. The present invention relates to a transportation container-based logistics management system for improving management efficiency.

In general, the goods received in the distribution warehouse, etc. are classified by logistics and goods by the manager, and the necessary information such as goods information, the date of receipt, storage location is created and stored.

However, the logistics management as described above is difficult to manage efficiently by creating and storing the goods information of each logistics through manual labor, and also difficult to manage the goods because information about the current location of the goods is not confirmed in real time. There was a problem in that it was not easy to obtain accurate management data on logistics due to the omission and omission of information.

Recently, in order to solve this problem, a method of directly attaching and managing an RFID tag to a logistics received in a warehouse has been proposed. By reading the information about the article recorded in the RFID through the RFID reader to be delivered to the host computer, it is possible to obtain the necessary information such as the date of manufacture of each article, the history of the article in real time to ensure efficient management.

A conventional logistics management system using RFID is disclosed in Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2009-0111358 (published on October 20, 2009) (name of the invention: RFID-based yard management system and method).

Such a conventional technology reads and processes RFID tag information attached to a material and transmits the history information to a management server, a management server responsible for functions such as storing history information and image information, and delivering image information in real time. It consists of CCTV which is a device for communication and the Internet which is a main communication network for data connection.

The conventional technology configured as described above can use RFID technology to easily manage materials in distant material warehouses even in the offices of construction companies.Effective management is managed by eliminating the difference between inventory on accounting book and existing inventory. Done.

1. Patent Publication No. 10-2009-0111358 (published October 20, 2009) of the Korean Intellectual Property Office (name of the invention: RF ID based property management system and method)

However, the prior art as described above is a method of individually managing the RFID information of the material (article) attached to the RFID having a unique identification number, so the performance limitation when the RFID reader is scanning multiple items at the same time (Multi-Scanning) Due to the high probability of failing RFID recognition, there is a disadvantage in that the accuracy of logistics management falls.

This requires manual processing, which increases the time and cost.

In addition, in the prior art, as described above, the accuracy of logistics management is lowered, and as a result, there is a fear that the product information is lost in logistics management.

Accordingly, the present invention has been proposed to solve all the problems occurring in the prior art as described above,

The problem to be solved by the present invention is a transport container-based logistics management system to increase the recognition rate and increase the efficiency of logistics management by scanning and recognizing the RFID of the transport container instead of recognizing RFID tags of individual items in the point-to-point transport step To provide.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a transport container-based logistics management system for solving the problem of increasing the frequency of the RFID recognition error occurs when a large amount of goods in and out of the logistics system based on the RFID system.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is by detecting the temperature, humidity, roughness, vibration of the transport container at the receiving point to determine whether or not, the transport can check the deterioration or damage of the individual goods accommodated in the transport container at the time of receipt It is to provide a container-based logistics management system.

"Transport container-based logistics management system" according to the present invention for solving the above problems,

An article unit which is a collection of individual goods with an RFID tag having product information and a unique identification number;

A transport container for accommodating the individual goods and having an RFID tag with a unique identification number;

A factory RFID reader positioned at a factory base and reading an RFID tag attached to the individual product and an RFID tag attached to a transport container;

A shipping terminal for mapping the RFID tag information of the individual goods read from the shipping RFID reader and the RFID tag information of the transport container to generate relationship information between the goods and the transport container, and storing them in a central server through a network;

A wearable RFID reader positioned at a receiving point and reading an RFID tag attached to the transport container;

It includes a receiving terminal connected to the central server through the network to receive the information of the transport container, and determines the receipt of the transport container by comparing the transport container information read from the incoming RFID reader and the received transport container information. Characterized in that.

The transport container,

A temperature sensor measuring temperature and storing temperature information;

A humidity sensor for measuring humidity and storing humidity information;

An illuminance sensor measuring illuminance and storing illuminance information;

It characterized in that it comprises at least one or more of the vibration sensor for measuring the vibration to store the vibration information.

The shipping terminal generates temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information for determining receipt of individual goods embedded in a transport container according to a manager's operation, and stores the generated information in the central server through the network. .

In addition, "transport container based logistics management system" according to the present invention,

It further comprises an information detector for detecting temperature information, humidity information, illumination information and vibration information by performing wireless communication with the temperature sensor, humidity sensor, illumination sensor, and vibration sensor built in the transport container,

The receiving terminal receives temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information about an individual product from the central server through the network, and detects the temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, vibration information, and the like detected by the information detector. The received temperature information / humidity information / illuminance information / vibration information is compared to determine the arrival of the transport container.

The present invention configured as described above accommodates the item (Item) attached with the RFID tag recorded the product information and the unique identification number at the base for shipping the goods in a transport container with an RFID tag having a unique identification number, Mapping the relationship between the transport container and the goods contained in it creates the relationship information and stores it in the central server.

At the base of receiving the goods, only the RFID tag of the transportation container is recognized to confirm the receipt of the delivered goods. At this time, since each item information can confirm the corresponding item information through the communication network, it is possible to confirm the delivery if only the receipt of the container unit in the receipt base.

In addition, the present invention by detecting the temperature, humidity, illuminance, vibration of the transport container at the storage location to determine whether or not, it is possible to check the deterioration or damage of the individual goods accommodated in the transport container during receipt.

According to the present invention, instead of recognizing RFID tags of individual items in the point-to-point transportation step, by scanning only the RFID of the transport container, the goods information can be accurately recognized, thereby increasing the recognition rate and improving the efficiency of logistics management. There is this.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the RFID system of the logistics system based on the RFID system recognizes the RFID information of the transport container only when a large amount of goods are received and received, the product information is recognized. The problem of increasing the frequency of RFID recognition errors occurring due to limitations can also be solved.

In addition, according to the present invention by detecting the temperature, humidity, illuminance, vibration of the transport container at the storage location, by determining whether or not, there is an advantage that can be confirmed the deterioration or damage of the individual goods accommodated in the transport container during receipt.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a transport container-based logistics management system to which the present invention is applied.
2 is an exemplary diagram of a mapping table applied to the present invention.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail since they would obscure the invention in unnecessary detail.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a transport container based logistics management system to which the present invention is applied, the article unit 110, the transport container 120, the shipment RFID reader 130, the shipment terminal 140, the network 200, It is composed of a central server 300, the incoming RFID reader 410, the information detector 420 and the receiving terminal 430.

The article unit 110 refers to an individual product to which RFID tags 111a, 112a, ..., (110 + N) a having product information and a unique identification number are attached, and the transport container 120 is the individual product. For receiving and transporting the goods, an RFID tag 121 having a unique identification number is attached. The transport container 120 includes a temperature sensor 122 that detects an internal temperature of the transport container 120 and stores temperature information therein, and outputs stored temperature information through communication with the outside; A humidity sensor 123 measuring internal humidity of the transport container 120 to store humidity information and outputting humidity information stored through communication with the outside; An illuminance sensor 124 measuring the inner illuminance of the transport container 120 to store illuminance information and outputting the illuminance information stored through communication with the outside; Vibration sensor 125 for measuring the vibration of the transport container 120 to store the vibration information, and outputs the stored vibration information through communication with the outside.

The factory RFID reader 130 is located at the factory base and performs a function for reading the RFID tag 121 and the RFID tags 111a, 112a, ..., (110 + N) a, and the factory terminal ( 140 maps the information of the RFID tag 121 read from the RFID reader 130 and the information of the RFID tags 111a, 112a, ..., (110 + N) a to the goods and the transport container. It generates the relationship information, and stores it in the central server 300 through the network 200. In addition, the delivery terminal 140 performs a function of generating temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information of the corresponding transport container 120 and storing it in the central server 300 through the network 200 according to an operation of an administrator. do.

The temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information stored in the central server are used as information for checking the deterioration or damage of individual goods contained in the transport container at the time of receipt of the transport container at the receiving point.

The network 200 refers to a communication network for interfacing data between the shipping terminal 140 and the central server 300 and the receiving terminal 430. The receiving RFID reader 410 is located at a receiving point, and the transport container. It serves to read the RFID tag 121 attached to the (120).

The information detector 420 performs wireless communication with the temperature sensor 122, the humidity sensor 123, the illuminance sensor 124, and the vibration sensor 125 built in the transport container 120 to be delivered to the temperature information and humidity information. Detects roughness information and vibration information, and transmits them to the wearing terminal 430 through a wire. In this case, it is preferable that the wireless communication is implemented by ordinary RF communication.

Receiving terminal 430 is connected to the central server 300 through the network 200 to receive the information of the transport container, and the transport container information and the received transport container information read from the RFID reader 410 The function of determining the goods receipt of the transport container by comparison. In addition, the wearing terminal 430 receives temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information about individual products from the central server 300 through the network 200, and detected by the information detector 420. The temperature information, humidity information, illumination information, vibration information, and the received temperature information, humidity information, illumination information, and vibration information are also compared to determine the receipt of the transport container.

Referring to the transport container-based logistics management system according to the present invention made in detail as follows.

First, as a shipping process, the RFID tags 111a to 110 + N in which product information and a unique identification number are recorded are attached to each of the goods 111 to 110 + N at the point where the goods are shipped. The RFID tag 121 having the identification number is attached to the transportation container 120.

Thereafter, the articles 111 to 110 + N of the article unit 110 to which the RFID tag is attached to the vessel 120 are accommodated. In this case, the delivery terminal 140 includes the vessel 120 and the individual articles 111 to 110. 110 + N) to map the relationship information is stored in the central server 300 through the network (200). Here, the method of mapping the relationship information between the transport container 120 and the individual items (111 ~ 110 + N) is first read the RFID tag 121 attached to the transport container 120 through the factory RFID reader 130, Next, the RFID tags 111a to 110 + N attached to the articles 111 to 110 + N accommodated in the transport container 120 are read and mapped to each other to perform relationship mapping.

2 is a mapping table for mapping the relationship information between the transport container and the goods contained in the transport container, first reads the tag attached to the transport container to set the transport container number, and the item information (P1 ~ P10) accommodated in the transport container ) Is mapped to each other, and the quantity information of the goods accommodated in the transport container is mapped to the relationship information.

Therefore, referring to FIG. 2, the transport container # B1 accommodates the items corresponding to P1 to P10, and the number of the received items is ten. Such mapping information is stored in the central server 300.

At this time, when the temperature sensor 122 / humidity sensor 123 / roughness sensor 124 / vibration sensor 125 is built in the transport container 120, the delivery terminal 140 of the transport container according to the operation of the administrator The temperature range, humidity range, illuminance range, vibration range, and the like are received and included in the mapping information to be stored in the central server 300. This temperature range / humidity range / illuminance range / vibration range will be used as information to determine the receipt of the container at the receiving point after the delivery of the container.

Next, as a receiving process, the receiving terminal 430 located at the receiving base is connected with the central server 300 through the network 200 to receive information about the transport container. At this time, the individual product information mapped to the transport container is received, and the temperature range / humidity range / illuminance range / vibration range information of the transport container is also received.

Thereafter, the RFID tag 121 attached to the transport container 120 delivered through the incoming RFID reader 410 is recognized, and the goods receipt terminal 430 receives information on the transport container received from the central server 300. When the transport container information read through the RFID reader 410 is compared and mutually matched, it is determined as the receipt of the transport container 120.

For example, the receiving point recognizes only the RFID tag of the transportation container, and compares only the information of the transportation container received from the central server with the recognized transportation container information to confirm the receipt of the delivered goods.

In this case, since each item information can be confirmed by connecting to the central server through the network, the goods information, the delivery base can confirm the delivery of the goods information only in transport units can be confirmed delivery. Therefore, by scanning and recognizing only the RFID of the transport container, it is possible to improve the accuracy of the results and the efficiency of logistics.

On the other hand, when the temperature sensor 122 / humidity sensor 123 / roughness sensor 124 / vibration sensor 125 is mounted to the transport container 120 as another feature of the present invention, the wireless information detector 420 Temperature information / humidity information / illuminance information / vibration information are acquired through communication, and the obtained information is compared with temperature information / humidity information / illuminance information / vibration information transmitted from the central server 300, respectively, and detected. It is checked whether the temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information fall within a predetermined range.

If the detected temperature information / humidity information / illumination information / vibration information belong to each of the preset temperature range / humidity range / illuminance range / vibration range, the receipt of the transport container is determined, and the detected temperature information / If the humidity information / illumination information / vibration information does not belong to each of the preset temperature range / humidity range / illuminance range / vibration range, the receipt of the transport container will be decided unacceptably. Here each sensor can be selectively applied to the transport container as needed. For example, only the temperature sensor may be built in the transport container 1, and the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor may be built in the transport container 2 at the same time. In addition, only the humidity sensor may be built in the container 3. Therefore, the present invention is to receive the information about each transport container from the central server, and based on the received information to communicate with the sensor embedded in the operation container in the information detector 420 to obtain the corresponding detection information desirable.

This means that if the goods accommodated in the shipping container are sensitive to temperature / humidity / illumination / vibration, if the temperature / humidity / illumination / vibration is changed during delivery, the goods contained in the shipping container may be deteriorated. Therefore, each sensor is built into the shipping container to detect such information, and by detecting the internal information of the shipping container at the receiving point to determine the goods receipt, it is possible to easily check whether the goods are deteriorated, and the wearing of the deteriorated products is not allowed. Will be.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims and their equivalents. Of course, such modifications are within the scope of the claims.

110 ... Goods department
120 ... Container
140... Shipping terminal
200 ... network
300 ... Central server
420... Information detector
430 ... Wearing terminal

Claims (4)

An article unit which is a collection of individual goods with an RFID tag having product information and a unique identification number;
A transport container for accommodating the individual goods and having an RFID tag with a unique identification number;
A factory RFID reader positioned at a factory base and reading an RFID tag attached to the individual product and an RFID tag attached to a transport container;
A shipping terminal for mapping the RFID tag information of the individual goods read from the shipping RFID reader and the RFID tag information of the transport container to generate relationship information between the goods and the transport container, and storing them in a central server through a network;
A wearable RFID reader positioned at a receiving point and reading an RFID tag attached to the transport container;
It includes a receiving terminal connected to the central server through the network to receive the information of the transport container, and determines the receipt of the transport container by comparing the transport container information read from the incoming RFID reader and the received transport container information. Transport container-based logistics management system, characterized in that.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the transport container,
A temperature sensor measuring temperature and storing temperature information;
A humidity sensor for measuring humidity and storing humidity information;
An illuminance sensor measuring illuminance and storing illuminance information;
Transport container-based logistics management system characterized in that at least one or more of the vibration sensor for measuring the vibration to store the vibration information.
The storage device of claim 1, wherein the shipping terminal generates temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information for determining receipt of an individual product embedded in a transport container according to a manager's operation and stores the information on the central server through the network. Transport container-based logistics management system, characterized in that.
The method according to claim 1,
It further comprises an information detector for detecting temperature information, humidity information, illumination information and vibration information by performing wireless communication with the temperature sensor, humidity sensor, illumination sensor, and vibration sensor built in the transport container,
The receiving terminal receives temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, and vibration information about an individual product from the central server through the network, and detects the temperature information, humidity information, illuminance information, vibration information, and the like detected by the information detector. A transport container-based logistics management system, characterized in that to determine the receipt of the transport container by comparing the received temperature information / humidity information / roughness information / vibration information.

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