Enhancement of Quality Assurance Controls in a Smart Transportation System: Application to Petrol Product Distribution

The goal of this paper is to describe an Intelligent Transport System which manages different kind of entities and sub-systems to ensure safety and security during petrol products transportation. This consists in monitoring in real-time the whole system which makes it possible to enhance its quality control. The data collected from the network allows studying the conformity between the planned quantity and path of distribution with the actual ones. This information is later used for realizing an accurate real-time management system with the aim of identifying possible anomalies. Among the different physical logistics measures which are monitored in real time, temperature has been taken as an important factor which impacts the loses in the quantity of product. In the manuscript, the system design and some results related to specific investigations are reported.