Real time monitoring of cross border E-commerce end delivery status through low power IoT sensing
The rapid expansion of cross-border e-commerce has exposed critical bottlenecks in end-delivery transparency and excessive IoT monitoring energy consumption. To address these challenges within global multi-modal logistics, this paper proposes a real-time, low-power sensing framework utilizing narrowband internet of things. To overcome severe battery life constraints in long-cycle international transit, we introduce a hardware-constrained algorithmic co-design featuring an adaptive event-triggered sampling algorithm. This method extracts kinematic features via a tri-axial accelerometer to dynamically adjust data acquisition frequencies strictly within edge-memory limits. Furthermore, a difference variation data compression mechanism is integrated to filter redundant macro-environmental data, minimizing costly global roaming transmissions. Extensive empirical evaluations on an ARM Cortex-M4 physical testbed across real-world cross-border routes demonstrate that the proposed system achieves an 84.25% reduction in overall energy consumption compared to continuous sensing baselines, achieving an average critical-event capture latency of 2.4 s (95th percentile: 4.2 s) under standard network coverage, while bounding the absolute worst-case alerting time within 20 s under extreme weak-signal conditions. This research establishes a highly robust and energy-efficient technical paradigm for macroscopic smart logistics supervision.
Authors
- Yue Wang
Institutions
- Sias University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Discover Internet of Things
- Published
- 2026-09-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s43926-026-00506-4
- Primary Topic
- E-commerce and Technology Innovations
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00