HANDLING OF DANGEROUS GOODS USING IOT DEVICES

• US 20180151044A1
• Filed: 11/28/2016
• Published: 05/31/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP SE
• Inventors: Puchta, Markus
• Granted Patent: US 10,192,188 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0832 Special goods or special handling procedures, e.g. handling of hazardous or fragile goods
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking

Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for monitoring dangerous goods based on networked devices including actions of registering a dangerous good with a monitoring system, the dangerous good being associated with a networked device, the networked device including one or more components that provide data associated with the dangerous good, determining at least one rule that is to be applied to handling of the dangerous good, receiving the data associated with the dangerous good, determining that a violation has occurred by comparing the data associated with the dangerous good to the at least one rule, and transmitting a notification to at least one application of a plurality of applications, the notification indicating that the violation has occurred.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring dangerous goods based on networked devices, the method being executed using one or more processors and comprising:

registering, by the one or more processors, a first dangerous good and a second dangerous good with a monitoring system, the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good comprising potentially harmful chemicals and being associated with a first networked device and a second networked device, respectively, the first networked device and the second networked device comprising one or more components that provide data associated with the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good and communicating with one another forming a mesh network to determine global locations of the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good and a relative location defining a distance between the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good, the data comprising an environmental data;

determining, by the one or more processors, at least one rule that is to be applied to handling of the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good to prevent a harm, the at least one rule being dependent on types of the potentially harmful chemicals, quantities of the potentially harmful chemical chemicals, and the global locations;

receiving, by the one or more processors, the data associated with the dangerous good;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a violation has occurred by comparing the data associated with the dangerous good to the at least one rule, the violation being associated with a respective degree indicating a severity of the harm based on the types of the potentially harmful chemicals, the quantities of the potentially harmful chemical chemicals and the relative location; and

transmitting, by the one or more processors, a notification to at least one application of a plurality of applications, the notification indicating that the violation has occurred.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a signal to the networked device in response to the violation, the networked device issuing one or more of an audible alarm and visual alarm in response to the signal.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting a signal to another networked device in response to the violation, the other networked device being proximate to the networked device and issuing one or more of an audible alarm and visual alarm in response to the signal.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the monitoring system comprises a plurality of product check objects, each product check object being associated with a respective networked device of a plurality of networked devices, and processing one or more rules associated with respective dangerous goods to determine respective violations.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the networked device is attached to one of the dangerous good, a collective package, within which the dangerous good is contained, a logistics component.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the logistics component comprises one of a car, a truck, a boat, a ship, a plane, a train, a factory, a distribution center, and a storage facility.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium coupled to one or more processors and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations for monitoring dangerous goods based on networked devices, the operations comprising:

registering a first dangerous good and a second dangerous good with a monitoring system, the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good comprising potentially harmful chemicals and being associated with a first networked device and a second networked device, respectively, the first networked device and the second networked device comprising one or more components that provide data associated with the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good and communicating with one another forming a mesh network to determine global locations of the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good and a relative location defining a distance between the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good, the data comprising an environmental data;

determining at least one rule that is to be applied to handling of the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good to prevent a harm, the at least one rule being dependent on types of the potentially harmful chemicals, quantities of the potentially harmful chemical chemicals, and the global locations;

receiving the data associated with the dangerous good;

determining that a violation has occurred by comparing the data associated with the dangerous good to the at least one rule, the violation being associated with a respective degree indicating a severity of the harm based on the types of the potentially harmful chemicals, the quantities of the potentially harmful chemical chemicals and the relative location; and

transmitting a notification to at least one application of a plurality of applications, the notification indicating that the violation has occurred.

8. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein operations further comprise transmitting a signal to the networked device in response to the violation, the networked device issuing one or more of an audible alarm and visual alarm in response to the signal.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein operations further comprise transmitting a signal to another networked device in response to the violation, the other networked device being proximate to the networked device and issuing one or more of an audible alarm and visual alarm in response to the signal.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the monitoring system comprises a plurality of product check objects, each product check object being associated with a respective networked device of a plurality of networked devices, and processing one or more rules associated with respective dangerous goods to determine respective violations.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the networked device is attached to one of the dangerous good, a collective package, within which the dangerous good is contained, a logistics component.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the logistics component comprises one of a car, a truck, a boat, a ship, a plane, a train, a factory, a distribution center, and a storage facility.

13. A system, comprising:

a computing device; and

a computer-readable storage device coupled to the computing device and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations for monitoring dangerous goods based on networked devices, the operations comprising;

registering a first dangerous good and a second dangerous good with a monitoring system, the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good comprising potentially harmful chemicals and being associated with a first networked device and a second networked device, respectively, the first networked device and the second networked device comprising one or more components that provide data associated with the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good and communicating with one another forming a mesh network to determine global locations of the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good and a relative location defining a distance between the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good, the data comprising an environmental data;

determining at least one rule that is to be applied to handling of the first dangerous good and the second dangerous good to prevent a harm, the at least one rule being dependent on types of the potentially harmful chemicals, quantities of the potentially harmful chemical chemicals, and the global locations;

receiving the data associated with the dangerous good;

determining that a violation has occurred by comparing the data associated with the dangerous good to the at least one rule, the violation being associated with a respective degree indicating a severity of the harm based on the types of the potentially harmful chemicals, the quantities of the potentially harmful chemical chemicals and the relative location; and

transmitting a notification to at least one application of a plurality of applications, the notification indicating that the violation has occurred.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein operations further comprise transmitting a signal to the networked device in response to the violation, the networked device issuing one or more of an audible alarm and visual alarm in response to the signal.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein operations further comprise transmitting a signal to another networked device in response to the violation, the other networked device being proximate to the networked device and issuing one or more of an audible alarm and visual alarm in response to the signal.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the monitoring system comprises a plurality of product check objects, each product check object being associated with a respective networked device of a plurality of networked devices, and processing one or more rules associated with respective dangerous goods to determine respective violations.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the networked device is attached to one of the dangerous good, a collective package, within which the dangerous good is contained, a logistics component.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the logistics component comprises one of a car, a truck, a boat, a ship, a plane, a train, a factory, a distribution center, and a storage facility.