期刊名称：International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology
印刷版ISSN：2347-6710
电子版ISSN：2319-8753
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：3519
DOI：10.15680/IJIRSET.2016.0503144
出版社：S&S Publications
摘要：Food security is one of the main global challenges today. Despite the fact that the number of foodinsecure populations remains unacceptably high worldwide, each year, enormous quantities of food are lost due tomany factors such as spoilage, infestations, theft and spillage during transporting. These losses are called PostharvestLosses (PHLs). Zambia's Food Reserve Agency (FRA)currently faces PHL grain inventory losses, the current graininventory management system is manual and paper based, and the cost of implementing a commercial automatedinventory management system such as one that utilizes RFID technology is high. Hence, we proposed a sensor networkthatuses Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), ZigBee Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), and Cloud technologies inthe development of a grain inventory management system for the FRA. An extensive literature review was conductedto find existing RFID applications in object tracking, monitoring and inventory management. A baseline study wasconducted to determine the challenges faced by FRA regarding grain inventory management. The results of thebaseline study were analysed and it was found that inventory is counted manually, records are mostly kept on paper andthefts are experienced. Interviews with warehouse supervisors were also conducted to get details FRA’s currentbusiness transactions. These findings were used to design automated RFID Grain Inventory Management System(RFID-GIMS) models with the goal of eliminating manual and paper based systems, and eliminating theft altogether.
