Research on Vehicle Material Support Model Based on “Internet of Things”
Da-peng Zhang1,2, Liang Wang2, Feng-zhong Wang2, Xiao-ping Kuang2
2
1
Company of Postgraduate Management, the Academy of Equipment, Beijing, China;
Department of Automobile Engineering, the Academy of Military Transportation, Tianjin, China
(birdzdp@163.com)
Abstract - The conception and the meaning of the
"internet of things" are introduced in this paper. Related to
integrative construction of vehicle material support, this
paper builds a support model based on the analysis of the
characteristics under the “internet of things”, which can
make sense for the informatization construction of the
vehicle equipment support system in theory and practice.
Keywords - Internet of Things, Informatization, Support
Model, Vehicle Material
I. INTRODUCTION
As we all know that vehicle material supply is very
important in the high-tech brushfire war. So a new vehicle
material supply model based on the “internet of things”
can fit the modern war pattern has been built.
In recent years, with the development of the information
technology and network, the field of vehicle material
supply has gone through drastic changes; the information
collection, exchange and transfer for the vehicle material
supply have become more and more efficient. Numerous
vehicle companies and land force in various nations have
undertaken major initiatives such as recombining efforts
and investment in Information Technology (IT) to better
manage their storehouse and reduce inefficiencies in their
supply chain. However, little information showed that one
challenge in all vehicle material support is the efficient
management of inventory in a complex network of
facilities and products with stochastic demand, random
supply and high inventory and transportation costs, which
have baffled the better management purpose in vehicle
material supply chain. This requires us to start with
information management of the vehicle material and to
change the supply model. The appearance of the “Internet
of Things (IOT)” makes it possible to come true [1].
On the understanding that internet is the
interpersonal communication by network, “internet of
things” is a network which links all things together by
information sensor equipment (such as radio frequency
identification technology (RFID), infrared inductor,
global orientation system, laser scanner and so on) and
makes the communication expanded at “any time”, in
“any place” and with “any person” to “human to thing”
and “thing to thing”. And an intelligent supply system
which can long-distance detect and control the material
will be built based on the “Internet of Things”. So, in this
paper, we build a vehicle material supply model based on
the “Internet of Things” [2].
II. THE TREND OF VEHICLE MATERIAL SUPPORT
MODEL BASED ON “INTERNET OF
THINGS”
A. Informatization and Intellectualization
In the future war, the core and soul of vehicle
material will contain three steps: information resource,
command and controlling, and survivability, which are
decided directly by the content of informatization and
intellectualization. Firstly, information is the most
important invisible resource in vehicle material support,
which can guide the whole process of material support
including
preparing,
planning,
organizing
and
implementing. Vehicle
material support needs
cooperation of logistic activities and information streams
to make supportability. Secondly, intellectualization is the
core of vehicle support’s command, controlling and
correspondence. In the data battlefield of future, vehicle
support could realize the intellectualization and network
of command and correspondence by “internet of things”
system, which transmits the vehicle material information
such as storage, transportation, fuel loading and
consumption with current data and images to every visible
system, and the commander can control material states
such as production, storage, transportation and
supplement etc directly and give command precisely.
IOT information platform has provided with the
commander with great support. With its support, the
commander can intellectualize the control and
commanding of vehicle material by mastering the
consumption of vehicle material, the amount of time,
space, species and quantity that vehicle material needs,
proper dispatching, automated selection of secured routes,
automated decision of solutions, etc[3].
B. High-speed and High Efficiency
High-speed and high efficiency make the vehicle
support decisive and efficient in modern wars. One reason
is that only the high-speed support can adapt to the
cadence of the informatization war, and with the
improvement of support speed and efficiency to a large
extent, the supplement of vehicle material can be timely
and in place[4]. The other reason is that quick reaction
achieves high efficiency. The extensive application of
“internet of things” technology will lay the foundation for
high speed and high efficiency of vehicle support. At the
same time each factor of the safeguard for vehicle
materials will change at all: on the facet of the
transmission and disposal of vehicle material support,
data communication and automatic command system will
achieve the transmission and disposal of the information;
on the facet of organizing and command, computer
simulation technology can predict the amount of the
demand and make support plan quickly according to the
factors like model, scale and geography of the battlefield,
which cuts down the command and decision time largely;
on the facet of storage of vehicle material, it can adjust
the changes of environment and the mission[5].
C. Omnidirectional and Integrative
The unity and integration of modern war gets the
vehicle material support to develop towards omnidirection
and integration. On the one hand, the frontispiece and
depth of vehicle material support will be larger and larger
with the development of warfare ability, mode and means,
and flat line style would be replaced by solid network.
Only if we have an omnidirectional vehicle material
support can we adapt to the informatization battlefield. On
the other hand, the informatization war is a kind of united
warfare with multi-service joint operation, and the
informatization command and warfare system will
combine all kinds of multi-service battle effectiveness
together into one unit[6]. We will not meet the needs of
combined operations without the integrated support.
Therefore, the vehicle material support system has to
break the borders of army services, integrate organization
and command as one, and optimize the deployment and
vehicle material resource in general. The appearance of
“internet of things” will realize the integration and
digitalization of vehicle material support, combine the
support forces of all army services into one unit, and also
combine storage support forces of front-line and backline, which could provide conditions for integrative
vehicle material support[7].
data transmission in support system, making use of this
information platform and, acquire, identify, dispose,
transit, transmit, memorize, use and control support
information effectively, then transform into energy to
make a great benefit quickly[9].
As every step during support is in the condition of
motive or friability, the information and direction always
shift with actual actions in time and space, which would
affect the availability, sharing, instantaneity and
accuracy[10] of the information. Vehicle material support
system bases on “Internet of Things”, which could solve
these problems effectively. It could use the information
platform to make the “internet of things” be widely used
in many occasions,” such as storehouse management,
transport management, production management, material
track, means of delivery and shelf identification[11]. It is
shown in Fig 2.
Information
net of
vehicle
material
support
Application
of "Internet
of Things"
technology
Vehicle
material
support
information
system
policy,
regulation,
and
techonlogy
standards of
"Internet of
Things"
Information
source of
vehicle
material
RFID
device,
infrared
sensor,
GPS etc
Fig. 1. Vehicle material support information platform based on “Internet
of Things”
Vehicle material information platform
III. THE DESIGN OF THE VEHICLE MATERIAL
SUPPORT MODEL BASED ON “INTERNET OF
THINGS”
A. The Real-time Information Disposal Systems
The management doctrine of the USA United Air
Lines is “the right parts, to the right aircraft, at the right
time-at the lowest possible cost.” This doctrine explains
the relationship between vehicle material cost and support
effectiveness incisively: the lowest cost and provision
assuring the supply of vehicle materials. The key sections
below should grasp skills of the safeguard for vehicle
materials: whole support total safeguard for vehicle
materials, the importance of planned stockpile, cycling
period control, quality assurance, continual cleaning up of
remainder, making real-time disposal and decision on
support information[8]. As a result, a support model based
on “internet of things” should build up an efficient
information platform (fig 1) for vehicle material support
at first. According to characteristics and requirements of
production enterprise
information
database of
spare parts
production
storage department
information
database of
vehicle spare
parts storage
demand department
information
database
including
warehouse
geography
surroundings
etc
supply department
smart
transport and
dispatching
command
system
(geographical
database
including
railroad
,highway ,air
ferry etc)
maintenance unit
information
database
including
spare parts
maintenance
experts,
technology
forces etc
Fig. 2. Sketch map of vehicle material support system network
(1). Spare parts production enterprises of vehicle
material. The platform will display spare parts production
factories, enterprise network charts according to
requirement, and locking the factory of a certain spare
part, show its location, which provides information for
raising material to leaders in the warfare, and meet
requirement of vehicle material.
(2). Spare parts storage enterprises of vehicle
material. The system will switch to network chart of spare
parts storage automatically according to requirement
information, and present optimal storage information of
spare parts based on “handy principle”. Then display the
distance from storage point to requirement point[12].
(3). Demand department of vehicle material
.Providing the information such as location,
characteristics, vehicle modes and the number etc.
(4). Supply department of vehicle material. After the
storage point and the requirement point are confirmed, the
system will create provision route network chart to fix
optimal transport plan.
(5). Maintenance units which consume the vehicle
material. If there is no storage of spare part and material
that could be repaired, the system will provide reference
information to display maintenance department,
maintenance expert and maintenance capacity, which
assists management leaders to make decision of
organizing repairing of vehicle material rapidly[13].
geographical space and place, information on product
attribute, production flow condition, supply chain key
indices and data flow speed etc. The “intelligence” supply
chain of “Internet of Things” age could meet the need of
informatization vehicle material support, enhancing its
efficiency (e.g. dynamic supply and demand balance,
detection and solving of predict accidents, aimed at
reducing stockpile level and product position visualization
etc) and also reduce conserving pressure of supply chain
(e.g. reducing the consumption of energy and resource,
reducing the pollution of exhaust emission) [15]. Right now
the factors such as prolix and low effective
infrastructures, high stockpile cost and low load
efficiency have severely affected the function of supply
chain network. The “intelligent” supply chain of vehicle
material would optimize the supplying model from raw
and processed material to product through powerful
analysis and simulated engine. This would assist factory
to make sure of the product facility location, optimize
material storage place, and set stockpile distribution
strategy. Furthermore, a “internet of things” would make
the real seamless, end to end supply chain come true, it
will reduce capital and cost (transport, storage and
stockpile cost), at the same time, heighten control
capacity of vehicle material support.
B. Integrative Support Model for Vehicle Material
IV. CONCLUSION
The support of vehicle material should not only
provide material and money to support objective, but also
meet its demand using informatization support
technology, means and method. With adoption of
advanced information technology, an information system
for equipment support should be founded due to the
profound principium of vehicle equipment, its
complicated structure, and its changeable support means
and content. Then it can improve the efficiency and
effectiveness of equipment support[14]. As a result, the
idea and the technology of “Internet of Things” will make
an immeasurable influence on the command, the process
and the technology method of the information
development. Aimed at the characteristics of supply
chains we could design a model as shown in Fig.3.
Production
department
Provision
department
Production
Depot
center
Delivery
center
Troops
Efficient delivery/dispatching
Gross toots
units
Timely supplement
equipment research, flow management, information integration, resource sharing, cooperation
operation
Information platform of support based on "Internet of Things"
material flow
information flow
decision
Fig.3. Real-time integrative vehicle material support model
The value of integrative vehicle material model is that
we can extract the information we need from data by
“Internet of Things” including information based on
The application of “Internet of Things” in vehicle
material support will make the safeguards for the
environment more transparent, support resource more
timely and support model more efficient on the condition
of informationization wars, which make great sense to
informationization construction of Land Force.
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