A Study on 5G Communication-Based Smart Logistics Cart System

5G in Logistics 4.0: potential applications and challenges

“…Regarding warehousing, only two papers in the corpus deal with the topic, and both refer to the possible use of drones to perform warehouse inventory activities: 5G networks, in facts, allow drones to travel longer distances N. of papers/Year without loosing the signal [18,19]. On the other hand, as far as material handling is concerned, excluding two literature reviews that refer to the uses of 5G in internal logistics (and specifically on material handling) [5,20], the two main topics discussed are autonomous guided vehicles [21][22][23][24] and "vehicles-to-everything" [25], which is a concept similar to the internet of things but related to the connection of vehicles (both traditionally and autonomously driven) to other elements (e.g., machinery, racking, portals) in the factory. For external logistics, on the other hand, the topics covered are supply chains, transportation, last-mile delivery and smart cities (Fig.…”