Microprocessors and Microsystems 80 (2021) 103565

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Development of cold chain logistics transportation system based on 5G

network and Internet of things system
Guie Li
Business College of Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi, 030031, China

A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T

Keywords: By implementing the Internet of things, the cold chain items are tracked in real time, and the data is tracked and
Predictive Data Transference Technique realized through the GPS system. WSM is realized by integrating wireless controller FPGA of Xilinx software. For
(PDTT) items that pass through the button position, the scaling effect under integer optimization and the overall eco­
Cold Chain Logistics
nomic benefits of transportation still maximize trunk transportation evidence. Cold chain logistics in the network
Real-time Tracking
IoT
design of transportation decision-makers provide a specific reference. It is believed to be based on the proposed
FPGA Predictive Data Transfer Technology (PDTT) framework and an optimized IoT data model. An Internet of Things
analysis framework for assessing overall performance. Simulation results confirm the performance of this
method. Also, freezing temperature monitoring and regular remote tracking of freight container locations are
needed to prevent food from being transported under cold chain logistics. Therefore, the access point (coordi­
nation) of GPS and 5G communication systems and wireless sensor network integration is extensive, developed in
our project. The proposed WSM is implemented by integrating mainly a wireless microcontroller FPGA based on
Xilinx software.

1. Introduction
With the development of the Internet, the Internet of things, as an
important part of the Internet, has also made rapid development. The
Internet of things is mainly through the network transmission technol­
ogy to a variety of commodity information network transmission. Then a
variety of commodity information will be collected and collected
through various information sensors.Subsequent open information and
other comprehensive services are based on a large number of network
technologies, integrated backbone networks, information resources,
general intelligent decision making, security assurance, management
technologies and services. The industry is currently facing significant
changes in response to consumers’ demands with increasingly diverse
products and high-quality standards. However, these products’ quality
can change rapidly as they are responsible for the various risks of pro­
duction, transportation, and storage of material loss. Cold chain man­
agement of new products requires rapid decision making to extend the
actual shelf life of fresh produce, as the goods are transferred within
hours after they arrive at the distribution center. Successful cold chain
logistics call for automatic monitoring and control of all operations.
For the shelf life of vegetables in cold chain, the shelf life of fresh
vegetables and food is mainly affected by temperature. The suitable
temperature can prolong the shelf life of some fresh vegetables and food.
Wireless sensor network monitoring can transmit and summarize all
kinds of data. Finally, the data report is obtained, which is faster and
more convenient than transportation. The response to fresh vegetables
and food is also more rapid. It can only be achieved with product
traceability and tracking by transmitting related products to all links of
comprehensive identification, collection and supply chain management.
This requires sufficient identification of products to end customers,
constructing a complete information system from the beginning of
production to a series of sales stages, and then collecting and effectively
associating process product information. Mutual information can be
communicated and integrated. That is, to achieve core traceability and
product tracking, information flow of logistics and connected products,
and product information, to form an information chain that is close to
the information chain that can track its physical location.
2. Literature survey
Because the living standard of people in modern society is generally
improved, the demand for fresh vegetables and food is becoming higher
and higher in daily life. The freshness of food can be protected most
efficiently by cold chain transportation, so cold chain transportation is

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2020.103565
Received 10 November 2020; Received in revised form 25 November 2020; Accepted 30 November 2020
Available online 3 December 2020
0141-9331/© 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Fig. 1. Proposed block diagram.
the main way to transport fresh food and vegetables. Due to the limi­
tation of environmental and economic conditions in different places,
cold chain transportation is mainly concentrated in large and medium-
sized cities, and the demand for cold chain transportation in rural
areas is not high. Because of the popularity of cold chain transportation,
so produced cold chain logistics. Through the analysis of cold chain
transportation system, cold chain logistics can effectively transport cold
chain food and vegetables, and realize the rational distribution of lo­
gistics goods. As a result, it can improve the efficiency [1,2] of cold chain
transportation and save cost and time. As the demand of embedded
system for information communication increases, the interconnection of
peripheral components of PCIe protocol becomes data bus at high speed.
The new technology has been embedded and used in some well-known
brands of mobile phones. As the economy develops rapidly, it is believed
that [3,4] will be widely used in the near future.
Cold chain logistics system, as an intelligent management frame­
work, is a comprehensive and timely deployment of cold chain logistics
such as cold chain logistics distribution, system management and risk
management. At the same time, this deployment also has traceability,
which to some extent also ensures the safety of cold chain logistics.Cold
Fig. 2. Real time tracking system.
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chain information datasets are used for simulation and are considered
compared to the other three recommended methods [5,6]. Cold chain
logistics, the process of distributing agricultural products, is funda­
mental, so there is safety in agricultural products’ transportation. Ac­
cording to the characteristics of the cold chain distribution of
agricultural products, carbon emission cost suggests the total cost [7,8].
This work demonstrates a new architecture using a ubiquitous
computing model to monitor the cold chain with the desired single
board computer. A perfect solution [9,10], the system has a powerful
database and remote management and man-machine interface equip­
ment and facilities. The development of the Internet of things and the
application of cloud computing and artificial intelligence provide a
faster and more convenient connection between cold chain logistics and
manufacturers. As a result, fresh food or vegetables in cold chain
transport, can make the freshness of these items to a great [11,12].
In countries around the world, the main intervention in public health
is vaccination of the population concerned. The vaccine used in vacci­
nation is transported and preserved by cold chain, so that the vaccine
can be used by consumers with complete quality assurance after pro­
duction. For the cold chain transportation and cold chain logistics of
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Fig. 3. FPGA Xilinx circuit.
vaccines, it is necessary to ensure that there is sufficient capacity to store
vaccines in the cold chain logistics [13,14], and to maintain the control
of constant temperature refrigeration during the transportation of vac­
cines. Through the research of vaccine cold chain logistics trans­
portation system, it can be found that the network structure of the
system is hub and banner. Because these two states require the lowest
cost and the least time for transportation, the network optimization
management of cold chain logistics transportation for vaccines should
be divided into two stages [15].
3. Materials and methods
As people’s living standards improve, people need more cold chain
logistics (PDTT) systems based on predictive data migration technology.
The three main parts of cold chain logistics are transportation, pro­
cessing and sales. The first two links easily meet the species’ large
quality and concentration due to the cold requirements. Simultaneously,
for the reproduction of large totals and links of goods, the real-time
monitoring system can be installed as a high-cost information device
in refrigerated trucks and processing workshops, allowing uniform
management of bulk materials. I will. On the contrary, it is difficult to
expand the sales and service operations of a certain number of customers
or a small number of deliveries. Also, the temperature and requirements
for various products that are difficult to control reduce the quality of
delivery service and the proposed system structure is shown in Fig. 1.
This work requires the use of layer device methods. This method can
improve the product quality of the goods in the delivery link, thus
forming an independent unit environment. FPGA system can also be
improved accordingly, so as to ensure the quality of goods in the Internet
of things. The system can record the environmental changes of cargo
entering cold chain transport vehicle in real time. These changes can be
reflected in mobile phone software. After receiving the goods, customers
can also view them in real time from the mobile phone software to un­
derstand the data of the environment in which the goods are located
during the whole cold chain transportation process. In order to fully
understand and master the cold chain transport process of the entire
transport of goods.
3.1. Logistics Real-time Tracking System
Based on traditional logistics operations and the logistics manage­
ment system’s development, the logistics management system is divided
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into many different modules. The first step in computerized construc­
tion, system analysis, is done using “top-down” design principles. Sys­
tem classification Background management, corporate users, individual
users, three large modules, and three large modules are further divided
into small modules as an exact functional configuration. It’s shown in
Fig. 2.
In modern society, the two main bodies of logistics service are lo­
gistics users and logistics suppliers. The whole logistics service trans­
action is carried out on the logistics platform. The supplier publishes the
logistics information on the logistics platform, and then the logistics user
inquires the relevant information on the logistics platform. Negotiate
and negotiate with logistics suppliers. After consultation, the logistics
supplier completes the whole logistics service. However, when dealing
with logistics service in logistics platform, some private information
security of logistics users and logistics suppliers can not be effectively
guaranteed. This personal information is easily stolen by others. This
requires the logistics platform to keep the information of logistics
transactions confidential and to ensure the traceability of this informa­
tion. After the transaction is successful, the transaction information can
not be arbitrarily modified. After the logistics service transaction is
reached, the damage or loss of the goods caused in the course of trans­
portation, as well as the delay in the delivery of the goods, are the
problems of the logistics supplier, and the corresponding liability should
be investigated in accordance with the provisions of the contract.
3.2. FPGA
FPGA applications to further integrate the FPGA architecture and
independent processors. An overview of the previous system integrated
with an independent processor in the FPGA architecture is shown in
Fig. 3. Now the main suppliers in the market are Altera,Xilinx and
MicroSemal and other three suppliers. According to relevant informa­
tion, the chips used in the system platform of these three suppliers are
ARM processor systems. And in other specifications of the chip also has
RAM multiple processors. By having the same processor and FPGA
structure in the same chip, the production cost can be reduced and the
space on the circuit board can be expanded. In addition, because there is
no need for bus communication connection between the two, this is also
the phenomenon of communication delay can be avoided, and the
bandwidth is increased accordingly. With the development and utiliza­
tion of more advanced systems and programs, more and more advanced
processors are needed to be placed in the system. Below is a brief
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Fig. 4. 5G Network-based IoT system.

Fig. 5. Proposed FPGA data transformation.

introduction to the application of SoCFPGA devices. in the Internet of things. The core structure in the Internet of things can
As shown in Fig. 3, a hierarchical protocol is required for devices in also be protected to a certain extent on the block chain. In general, the
the Internet of things. Because of the different amount of data, the time data processing applied in intelligent system can solve the problem of
to process these data information in the Internet of things will be data privacy through technical contract and so on. Setting up the pro­
different. This requires different devices for real-time processing of a gram to prevent the introduction of chain technology in the Internet of
wide range of data. But usually, such equipment does not have too much things can accelerate the application in the linked network. In the study
processing power. FPGA device can transmit all kinds of data to other of network model, the main consideration is heterogeneous network
devices through IoT platform, and the structure of this device can also model. The structural problem in heterogeneous network model is also
reduce the time required for hierarchical protocols in Internet of things the main problem we study. Through the study of this model, the
communication. The difference between this program and other pro­ network trust technology in heterogeneous networks can be considered,
grams is that some other connection devices are needed for data trans­ which can be divided into heterogeneous routing control technology,
mission and data synthesis on the Internet of things platform. network control technology and network monitoring control
technology.
3.3. 5G Network-based IoT Systems The Internet of things connects people with a variety of goods,
creating a way of communication between people and objects. The
As a new thing, the Internet of things can solve the equipment se­ connection between the end and the end is the main way. as shown in
curity problem in the Internet of things on the basis of the block chain Fig. 4. This is a network extension and extension based on the Internet of
after the moderate integration of the Internet of things and the block things. Of course, the most important part is the Internet. In the social
chain. Block chains have open, transparent and tamper-resistant prop­ Internet 1 user and the Internet of things system are two main aspects,
erties. So this plays an important role in the security of core equipment through the Internet of things system users form different social net­
works, so that things and people and people, form a variety of social
Table 1 network social relations. As a social feature of the Internet of things, the
Performance Comparison of the proposed system. application and service of the Internet of things is a form in which the
social Internet of things can reach agreement on technology applications
Measurement PCA SVM PDTT
and services.
Time Analysis (sec) 12.2 11.0 5.7
Accuracy (%) 76.1 86.2 94.6
Error Rate (%) 23.9 13.7 5.4

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Fig. 6. Performance comparison of proposed DROT system.
4. Result and discussion
By predictive data transmission techniques (PDTT). System analysis
for data acquisition and storage. The software also shows the circuit.
Fig. 5 gives the simulated result of the proposed Predictive Data
Transference Technique (PDTT), and the sensor value are shown in the
circuit of this proposed system.
Table 1: shows the performance comparison of the proposed Pre­
dictive Data Transference Technique (PDTT) system and the existing
PCA, SVM methods.
As shown in Fig. 6. A result analysis of predictive data transmission
technology (PDTT) is shown. It can be seen that the prediction data
transmission technology can achieve better results.
5. Conclusion
Through cold chain logistics to track the freshness of fresh fruits and
vegetables and food in real time. Based on the research, it is found that
using predictive data transmission technology (PDTT) in cold chain lo­
gistics transportation can keep fruits and vegetables fresh to the greatest
extent. And it can reduce the cost in the transportation process. Through
the research results, we can see that the state of hub type and width type
cold chain transportation network has strong advantages. Automatic
system monitoring of cold chain transport items can effectively prolong
the shelf life of food.
Declaration of Competing Interest
We declare that we have no financial and personal relationships with
other people or organizations that can inappropriately influence our
work.
Acknowledgement
This research has been financed by Soft science project of Science
and Technology Department of Shanxi Province in 2017“Research on
the Coordinated Development of the Two Industries in Shanxi Province
Based on the Grey Correlation Theory” (2017041028-5)
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Li Guie, female, associate professor, School of Business, Shanxi

University, Master of Management, senior logistics engineer,
graduated from Beijing Technology and Business University,
lecturing on Logistics System Planning, Warehousing and Dis­
tribution Management and other courses. In recent years, she
has presided over 4 provincial-and-ministerial-level projects,
published more than 10 academic papers, including 4 papers in
core journals, and participated in the compilation of 1
textbook.