Active Product Modeling for Chemical Security Management Based on Smart Object Concept

Nowadays the management of the security of goods and persons is a stake mattering in industries. In general, product’s security level is the matter of each individual product and it often depends on products’ interactions within vicinity. An efficient security management needs to be based on distributed security model supported by each individual products. Ambient and communication technologies bring new visions in creating reliable security systems, where products are transformed into smart products. Thus, each product acts as an active brick of the whole security system by means of embedded security functions as monitoring, controlling, decision making and alarming actions according to security and dependency rules. We propose the Active Product concept that provides product reactive behaviors to changes and inappropriate storage conditions, based on the security rules it is compelled. In our approach a product as for example a chemical container can be aware of its handling and storage conditions, and of changes in its environment and can be sensitive to products which surround it. Using wireless sensors attached to products, we create a network of interactive and communicating products to manage an Active Security System in an Ambient Intelligent Environment where human operators and hazardous chemical products are interacting securily in warehoursing and handling area. This article describes the concept Active Product by mean of smart object functionalities applied to hazardous industrial product and it proposes an internal structure model and associated capabilities of Active Product entity dedicated to security management.