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Smart Objects System: A Generic System for Enhancing Operational Control

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Many companies are making considerable investments in tracking technology, such as GPS and RFID. Although tracking technology captures vast amounts of information about the ongoing operations, companies struggle to effectively apply this captured information for enhancing their operational control. In order to contribute in solving this problem, this paper presents a generic system for enhancing operational control, which applies the captured information in a more effective way. The proposed system is based on the approach of intelligent products. The intelligent products represent physical objects, and are capable of autonomously performing some of the repetitive tasks required for operational control. The usefulness of the system is demonstrated by presenting the results of several applications of the system.

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  1. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

    Gerben G. Meyer & Men-Shen Tsai

  2. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    W. H. (Wilrik) Mook

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  1. Dept. Computer Science & A.I., University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Jorge Casillas

  2. Dept. of Management, University of Granada, Granada, 18071, Spain

    Francisco J. Martínez-López

  3. Department of Computing Science, and Control, Universidad Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced, s/n s/n, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez

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Meyer, G.G., Mook, W.H.(., Tsai, MS. (2012). Smart Objects System: A Generic System for Enhancing Operational Control. In: Casillas, J., Martínez-López, F., Corchado Rodríguez, J. (eds) Management Intelligent Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 171. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30864-2_7

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