The Internet of Things (IoT) vision enables multiple of resource-constrained embedded devices, objects, and humans to connect together through the Internet protocol for a ubiquitous data exchange. Logistics is considered to be a key player poised from this vision to achieve the full visibility and transparency through leveraging the pervasive interconnectivity to collect reliable and safe real-time data. In addition, the valuable information extracted and transformed from the IoT data can be exploited to create intelligent services and applications to improve the logistics activities as well as the overall performance of logistics operations. This paper aims at reviewing the state-of-the-art applications of IoT in the logistics sector. Although the adoption of IoT potentially gains huge benefits, there still exist barriers preventing the full adoption of IoT in the logistics. This paper also discusses such challenges that promise to expose a wide range of open research regarding the integration of IoT in the logistics domain.

物联网 (IoT) 愿景使多个资源受限的嵌入式设备、对象和人类能够通过互联网协议连接在一起，实现无处不在的数据交换。物流被认为是实现这一愿景的关键参与者，通过利用无处不在的互连来收集可靠和安全的实时数据，实现全面的可见性和透明度。此外，从物联网数据中提取和转换的有价值信息可用于创建智能服务和应用程序，以改善物流活动以及物流运营的整体绩效。本文旨在回顾物联网在物流领域的最新应用。尽管物联网的采用可能会获得巨大的好处，仍然存在阻碍物联网在物流中全面采用的障碍。本文还讨论了这些挑战，这些挑战有望揭示有关物联网在物流领域集成的广泛开放研究。