This full-text paper was peer-reviewed and accepted to be presented at the IEEE WiSPNET 2016 conference.

Smart Supply Chain Management using Internet of

Things(IoT) and Low power Wireless
Communication Systems
S.Yuvaraj M.Sangeetha
Department of ECE Department of ECE
SRM University SRM University
Chennai, India Chennai, India

yuva8892@yahoo.co.in sangeetha.m@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in

Abstract Radio frequency identification (RFID) is the platform for the organization to expand and develop further
technology that uses an RFID tag on objects or people, so that which satisfies the customer. It is used for the goods to be
they can be identified, tracked and managed automatically. Due delivered to the customer without any damage and at specified
to its wide application in the automobile assembly industry, time so that it satisfies the customer and also helps to increase
warehouse management and the supply chain network, RFID has the output efficiency for the organization. It also provides the
been considered as the next promising technology in serving the
detailed flow of information from the supplier to customer and
positioning purpose. Since the goods need to be monitored it
should be tracked in both indoors and outdoors. Existing also provides the time of arrival of goods. Ending Inventory is
positioning technology such as Global positioning system (GPS) equal to the Beginning Inventory + Receipts of the goods (in) -
are not available indoors as the terminal cannot get the signal Shipments (out). SCM provides the current information about
from the satellites. To enhance the availability of the positioning
systems for indoors, the development of RFID positioning system
for locating objects or people have became a hot topic in recent
research. GPS is mainly used for outdoor tracking. This paper
deals with the process of goods which is to be tracked in both
indoor and also outdoor environment and to monitor the goods
with the IOT anywhere and also at anytime.
Keywords RFID, GPS , Arduino , IoT, PHP.

I. INTRODUCTION
Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of flow
of goods or assets and services. SCM includes movement and
storage of raw materials, assets and goods from one place to
another place. SCM is basically termed as the design,
planning, execution, control and monitoring of goods. These
methods are heavily followed from the areas such as
operations management, logistics and information technology.
SCM is the approach that manages the movement of raw Fig 1.1 Flow of goods in SCM
materials into an organization and it is deployed in both indoor
and outdoor environments and the information updates about the location, status and condition of your assets or goods. For
the goods are uploaded in the server with the help of IoT. IoT indoor tracking of goods Radio Frequency Identification
refers to the wireless communication between the objects and (RFID) is used. For outdoor tracking, Global positioning
it can be controlled and monitored from anywhere, any place system (GPS) is used. Thus, from the process of SCM,
and at any time. SCM keeps the record of the movement of Shipments of the Distribution Center = Receipts of the Retail
goods from the supplier to the manufacturer which moves Location.
along with the wholesaler to the retailer and finally to the
customer. SCM is mainly used to benefit for the company and
it links and collects the overall data collected by the II. PRINCIPLE OF TRACKING
warehouse management system, communication software and A. Indoor tracking-RFID technology
distribution management system as well. SCM is mainly used
in order to increase the efficiency of the company and also to RFID is the wireless use of electromagnetic fields to
make sure that the materials reach to the customer. SCM transfer data, for the purpose of automatically identifying and
controls the product flow, Information flow and financial flow tracking tags attached to the objects. Tags contain
as well and it also helps in business growth and gives it global electronically stored information. RFID Reader is a device that

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is used to interrogate with the RFID Tag. For short range is displayed on the server with the tag name and also the tag
communication, Low frequency (LF) RFID is implemented. time.
The frequency range of LF-RFID is 125 kHz and it consumes
only less power and data interface is done by RS 232 cable.
Arduino Board is used here which is interfaced with RFID
Reader which is used to display the output on the server.
Arduino is the open-source computer hardware and software
that designs and manufactures microcontroller-based kits for
building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense
and control the physical world.

Fig 2.2 XAMPP Server

XAMPP stands for Cross platform (X), Apache (A),

MySQL (M), PHP (P) and Perl (P). Xampp is a simple tool,
easy for developers in order to create a local web server for
Fig. 2.1 RFID Reader-Arduino Interface testing purposes. To setup a Web server - server application
(Apache), database (MySQL) and Scripting language (PHP) is
used. Apache is the web server application which is used to
Standards Specifications process the information and delivers the web content to the
RFID Type LF RFID computer. MySQL is the database for storing the collected
data. MySQL is the open source, popular database
Frequency 125 kHz management system. PHP is the server side scripting
Reading Distance 20 mm to 30 mm language.

Time of Identity Less than 1 Second

Power Consumption Less than 2W in reading
state, 0W in Idle state
Data Interface RS 232
Operating Temperature -5 C to 50 C

Tab. 2.1 RFID Standards and Specifications

B. Outdoor tracking-GPS
GPS is used in order to track the goods or assets in outdoor
environments. Tracking is done with the help of latitude and
longitude and the information of the goods are displayed on
the server and the location of the goods is determined. In
Outdoor tracking, Server is used which plays a major part and
back end coding is done using Hyper text pre-processor Fig 2.3 GPS Marker Implementation
(PHP). XAMPP control panel is the server used here which is
With the help of latitude and longitude the location of
used to determine the location of goods and information
the goods is displayed on the server with marker
updates on server. Geo-coding, Reverse Geo-coding, Geo-
implementation. Hence the goods that are dispatched from one
fencing is performed. Web Server application and the database
point to another point the process of delivery of goods can be
has to be started in the XAMPP control panel in order to
viewed by means of Marker implementation and the location
determine the location of the objects with tag name details. It
also can be obtained.
fetches the information from the database and the information

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III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
A. Results Indoor tracking
RFID Tag data implementation is done with is interface
with Arduino board and the output is displayed on the serial
monitor and as well as the results are taken in database.
Fig. 3.1 RFID Tag Data
From the image, coding is performed in such a way that the
transmitter of RFID Reader is interfaced with the 9th pin of
Arduino board and the serial begins at 9600 bps. My Serial
available () - Checks for any data coming from the RFID
Reader through Software Serial via pin 9 and returns the
number of bytes to be read from the serial port. My Serial.read
() - Reads the incoming data through serial port Serial.write()
- Prints the data to the serial monitor.
Fig. 3.2 RFID - Database
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The above image determines the RFID tag information
with RFID-Tag ID is displayed in the database. Coding is
provided to the arduino and the tables are entered in the
database thus when the specific RFID tag is read by the RFID
reader module, then the result is updated in the database and
also in the server.
B. Results Outdoor tracking
Latitude and Longitude is obtained on the server
which is used to determine the location of the goods or assets.
Fig. 3.3 Geo-coding
From the above image, latitude and longitude is displayed
in the local server by giving the address in the coding using
PHP the output is obtained. In coding , the address is
mentioned which contains the goods and in the web server the
content is displayed in terms of latitude and longitude.
Fig. 3.4 Reverse Geo-coding
From the above image, latitude and longitude is given in
the coding part and the address is displayed in the local server.
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Fig. 3.5 Geo-Fencing
The above image determines the virtual barrier for
certain Meters which are given in the coding part which
allows the administrator to trigger when the device enters into
the boundary.
IV. CONCLUSION
In this paper, Supply Chain simulation platform system is built
based on IoT technology. This system is used to provide a full
range of search service for the customers through internet and
can visualize the whole process of mobile commerce. The aim
of this project is to monitor the goods or raw materials at both
indoor and outdoor environment and to update the information
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on the server. Data is used for future reference for the analysis
of the work in which SCM plays a vital role in it.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by SRM University, Chennai, India.
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