GPRS BASED REMOTE MONITORING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT LOGISTIC DECISIONS

The increased complexity of business behaviour leaded to the appearance of new techniques, tools and technologies to fulfil market demands. The need for managing networked logistics or global supply chain is recognised due to the importance of the optimal control of logistic functions, such as purchasing, production, distribution and recycling. There are two wide categories of tools that support the development and control of logistic systems: design techniques and IT solutions. Unfortunately, a huge number of production and service companies do not possess all advantages of IT solutions and they continue their quest in improving their business processes without available up-to-date technologies. Wireless based data acquisition technologies are the focus of a huge number of research papers but in the field of logistics these technologies are not widely used. Within the frame of this paper authors are focusing on the IT solutions, especially on the General Packet Radio Service based remote monitoring. They describe the composition and the operation principle of the remote monitoring system.