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Spatial temperature profiling by semi-passive RFID loggers for perishable food transportation

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In this paper, the authors show how miniaturized RFID temperature loggers can be adapted to analyze the amount of local deviations, detect temperature gradients, and estimate the minimum number of sensors that are necessary for reliable monitoring inside a truck or container.
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This article is published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.The article was published on 2009-03-01 and is currently open access. It has received 234 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cold chain & Radio-frequency identification.

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A Review of Wireless Sensor Technologies and Applications in Agriculture and Food Industry: State of the Art and Current Trends

TL;DR: The paper focuses on WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification), presenting the different systems available, recent developments and examples of applications, including ZigBee based WSN and passive, semi-passive and active RFID.
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Smart packaging systems for food applications: a review

TL;DR: The market for active and intelligent packaging systems is expected to have a promising future by their integration into packaging materials or systems.
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Time–Temperature Management Along the Food Cold Chain: A Review of Recent Developments

TL;DR: A combination of prospective experimental and modeling research on precooling uniformity, responsive food inventory management systems, and cold chains in developing countries is proposed for the improvement of the cold chain at the global scale.
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The role of RFID in agriculture: Applications, limitations and challenges

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive view of current applications and new possibilities of RFID, but also explain the limitations and challenges of this technology, including the operation in harsh environments, with dirt, extreme temperatures; the huge volume of data that are difficult to manage; the need of longer reading ranges, due to the reduction of signal strength due to propagation in crop canopy; the behavior of different frequencies, understanding what is the right one for each application; the diversity of the standards and the level of granularity are some of them.
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Review: Wireless sensors in agriculture and food industry-Recent development and future perspective

TL;DR: An overview on recent development of wireless sensor technologies and standards for wireless communications as applied to wireless sensors for agriculture and food industry is presented.
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Rfid Technologies: Supply-Chain Applications and Implementation Issues

TL;DR: This publication contains reprint articles for which IEEE does not hold copyright and which are likely to be copyrighted.
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Applied statistics for engineers and scientists

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of data sets utilized in the book's examples and problems, which are automatically packed with every new copy of the book and not available separately.
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RFID: an enabler of supply chain operations

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual discussion of the evolution of RFID, addressing its capabilities and its application in various industries, discusses implementation challenges, identifies adoption phases, and reviews RFID's success factors.
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