System and method for generating a transporting instruction using an environmental sensor

摘要

A system including an environmental sensor that can travel with a product within a carrier's logistics network. The environmental sensor being configured to sense an environmental condition capable of affecting the product to generate product environment data. The system includes a scanner configured to read product environment data from the environmental sensor. The system also includes a hub control unit configured to communicate with the scanner and receive the product environment data from the scanner and determine whether the product environment data enters into a pre-defined range of values associated with an exposure of the product to an environmental condition. The hub control unit is also configured to generate alert data if it is determined that the environmental data has entered the range of values. If a limit within the values is further transcended, a transportation instruction is also generated to alter transport of the product.

主权项

1. A method comprising the steps of:
collecting environmental data using an environmental sensor associated with a container such that the sensor travels with the container during transportation of the container within a carrier's logistics network; receiving the environmental data collected by the environmental sensor at a computer system; determining with the computer system whether an environmental condition of the container has entered within a pre-defined range of values based on the collected environment data; and prior to completing the transportation of the container and in response to the computer system determining the environmental condition has entered the range of values, generating and transmitting alert data to one or more users of the computer system, the generated alert data containing an indication of the environmental condition entering the range of values.