What is the future of cold chain logistics?

In recent years, industry scholars and enterprises have conducted in-depth research on smart cold chain logistics. In 2010, IBM released a research report on "Wisdom of the Future Supply Chain", which put forward the concept of smart supply chain and extended the concept of smart logistics. The basic links (transportation, warehousing, packaging, loading and unloading handling, circulation processing, distribution) to achieve the system perception and data collection of modern integrated intelligent logistics system.

With the development of cold chain informatization and digitalization, intelligent cold chain logistics has become an inevitable development trend. Through intelligent hardware, Internet of Things, big data and other intelligent technologies and means, it improves the ability of analyzing and decision-making and intelligent execution of the logistics system, and upgrades the level of intelligence, networking and automation of the whole logistics system, so as to realize the intelligence from the aspects of circulation links, underlying technologies, application fields and functional objectives.

The 3D visualization system of the intelligent cold chain park gathers a variety of complex management system information in the virtual simulation environment, builds the presentation of the whole scene of the cold chain park, and adopts the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies in the logistics system, so that the operation of the whole cold chain logistics system is like the real-time collection and processing of information under the command of a human brain to make the optimal decision and realize the optimal layout. With the adoption of advanced technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and artificial intelligence, the entire cold chain logistics system can operate as if the human brain is directing it to collect and process information in real time, make optimal decisions and realize optimal layout.

Taking the 3D map of China as the background, the corresponding areas are marked on the 3D map according to the data of domestic transportation hubs, and the data relationship map of transportation hubs is displayed. By manually placing the key points manually, it presents the locations of cold chain business involved in the country on the 3D map, and at the same time draws the hub network with dynamic flow effect, which vividly and imaginatively demonstrates the real-time and intelligent nature of cold chain logistics.

The HT for Web GIS product also provides a solution for real-time display of national transportation hub data points and their dynamic changes in combination with GIS maps. The positioning of the HT for Web GIS product lies in the use of the product's powerful visualization technology to display the data from the geographic information system (GIS) in a rich visual way, realizing the following The large amount of point data is presented on a three-dimensional map. The advantage of using GIS is that more map details can be loaded by means of Levels of Detail (LOD), which can directly understand the specific location of each cold chain park.

Cold storage visualization management

TuPu adopts 3D virtual simulation technology and combines it with digital twin technology to simulate the whole warehouse environment in the real world, so that the warehouse area, workshop, equipment, etc. can be reconstructed in three dimensions in accordance with the isometric ratio. The environment is visualized in the front-end system, which clearly and completely shows the warehouse environment of the whole park.

In order to realize the visual management of cold storage and present the advantages of cold chain, the intelligence of cold storage information system is especially important. Tupu docking intelligent logistics integration system, collect, summarize and analyze all kinds of information of cold storage, establish a perfect database, and through the intelligent brain, carry out unified scheduling and control of on-site logistics equipment, real-time monitoring of on-site logistics equipment. Through the intelligent "brain", it can carry out unified scheduling and control of on-site logistics equipment, real-time monitoring of on-site equipment operation status, visualization of the whole process of logistics turnover, timely response and handling of problems, and timely switching in case of failure.

Real-time inventory management

TuPu HT Warehouse management monitoring visualization, real-time inventory and real-time occupancy of storage space display. Three-dimensional scene can simulate the location of goods/pallets, real-time display of warehouse operation, you can intuitively understand the shelf storage occupation or not, if there is a pallet occupation, click on the pallet, you can pop up the panel to display the pallet's bar code and storage code and other related information. The digital twin cold storage in and out of the warehouse, restore the site logistics process, data changes in the shelves and real-time feedback of the panel data, to achieve a full grasp of the activities of the storage and transfer center state, to play a supervision, maintenance, and deployment of multi-dimensional unity, so that the material in and out of the warehouse information can be displayed, can be monitored, can be managed.

Support to the three-dimensional warehouse lane dimensions of the viewing display, targeted monitoring of a particular lane to view the real-time inventory of the lane.

Real-time monitoring of equipment

For the cold chain industry, the working process of transportation solutions such as the "stacker + shuttle" system is simulated and animated through HT visualization technology. Combined with the automatic sensing and identification of shuttle, elevator, conveyor, AGV, three-dimensional warehouse shelves, and the integration of WMS and WCS system data, it monitors the whole process of information from the beginning of material entry to the completion of material exit, and realizes 24-hour fully automated batch operation of cold chain logistics.

The front-end adopts a three-dimensional mode to dock the corresponding system and mark the equipment points to realize real-time tracking of the equipment trajectory, restore the real-time location of the logistics equipment in the three-dimensional screen, and click on the equipment model points to view the detailed information of the equipment, so that the user fully understands the situation of the cold storage site and grasps the progress of the goods in and out of the storage in real time, as well as quickly responds and coordinates resources for the whole process of warehousing and logistics. The system can be used for quick response and resource coordination in the whole process of warehousing and logistics.

The 3D visualization monitoring system interfaces with the WCS system to obtain the monitoring data of the relevant equipment, and intuitively displays the relevant data of the key equipments in the 3D scene, and the information of the equipment's alarm status and offline status is clear at a glance in the 3D screen, which helps the management personnel of the cold storage warehouse to understand the resource scheduling in a timely manner. The 3D visualization displays real-time information such as overall logistics and conveying equipment operation status, equipment tasks, abnormal alarms, etc., which can quickly locate equipment failures, intuitively and efficiently.

In order to further present the concept of multi-temperature zone, temperature control transparency and full digitalization of the cold storage, the warehouse scenario restores the actual on-site layout of the temperature and humidity sensors, and Hightopo combines the real-time temperature and humidity management technology to realize the real-time management of the real-time temperature, humidity, breakage, and other information of the product, and the visualization system of the cold storage in the case of anomalies will send out a clear warning prompts to inform the management personnel, reduce risks, and facilitate management. In case of abnormal situation, the visualization system of cold storage will issue obvious alarm prompts, so as to inform the management personnel in time, reduce the risk and facilitate management.

Equipment search and positioning

To realize the fast search and positioning of equipment and bins, enter the keywords of equipment code or bin number in the input box, double-click on the search result, and the viewpoint can be automatically positioned to the target equipment or bin.

Multi-angle display of the warehouse

Adopting innovative 3D visualization modeling technology to build a virtual cold storage three-dimensional interactive environment, providing a full range of hands-on experience, can be rotated by the mouse at will, drag and drop, zoom and other operations to view the warehouse scene from any different viewpoints, and to support the top view, side view, front view of the warehouse scene from a variety of perspectives to monitor the scene of the actual situation.

The 3D visualization system supports cross-platform browsing, and any mobile terminal can be browsed, even if the operation and maintenance personnel are not at their workstations, they can also monitor through their cell phones or IPads, which makes it possible to overcome the limitations of the previous operation and maintenance personnel who had to be in the main control room for control and management.