The 25th IIR International Congress of Refrigeration (ICR 2019)
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Abstract
This study is within the activities of Project “PrunusPós - Optimization of processes for the storage,
cold conservation, active and/or intelligent packaging and food quality traceability in post-harvested
fruit products”, project n.º PDR2020-101-031695, Partnership n.º 87, initiative n.º 175, promoted by
PDR 2020 and co-funded by FEADER within Portugal 2020.This paper presents the current status and future trends of sensor technologies for food products
traceability, specifically for systems devoted to be applied in the cold storage and refrigerated
transport of horticultural products. The available monitoring technologies such as dataloggers, TTI,
WSN, RFID, and combined approaches are evaluated and compared in terms of dimensions, sensor
parameter (temperature, relative humidity, water vapor, ethylene and other gases released during
the biological processes of fruit), robustness, reliability, energy autonomy, bandwidth (if applicable),
connection, among others. The aim of the study consists in evaluating how these technologies can
be successfully applied for traceability of horticultural products and are what the future trends in
terms of technical and technological specifications that will guide the development of these systems.
It is expected that the increasing use of these systems for food traceability increases food quality
and safety, reducing food waste.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio