RFID associated to Ambient Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems for Warehouses Decentralized Management and Control

RFID associated to ambient intelligence provide the basic interconnected network infrastructure for decentralized warehouses management and control. In this paper, we discuss benefits and barriers of decentralized approaches and how they can be adopted in warehouses. We examine mechanisms, protocols and architectures that can be used for warehouse decentralized control. Finally, we propose a warehouse architecture based on decentralized approach for warehouses order fulfillment process. This architecture associates RFID technology with ambient intelligence platform and multi-agent system.