Parcelcall
Research team
Research team
Overview
Description
1 January 2000 - 31 December 2002
ISSTI researchers were recently part of a consortium of leading European industrial and academic partners involved in the research and technological development project ParcelCall. The project’s aim was to create a scalable real-time, intelligent, end-to-end tracking and tracing system for transport and logistics applications - to operate across all border, carriers and transportation modes. In order to ensure seamless tracking and tracing across the entire logistics and transportation chain, the research has pointed to the need to focus on interoperability, open interfaces, and standardization.
It was also found that by using an open and scalable system architecture, the ParcelCall system can be easily extended by adding new server components, whilst the use of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to complement existing automatic identification methods using bar codes and labels, allows reliable automated data capture and status acquisition for individual movements, key processes and events throughout the transport cycle.
Researchers: Dr Ian Graham; Dr James Stewart
Contact: James Stewart