The hardware part consists of a module for the automated documentation of the material flow directly at the
venues. As a kind of telematics, the module provides the information and communication technologies (ICT) to
determine the actual position of the transport device, to document the material flow movements using motion
sensors and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and to transmit the collected data to the distribution system via
the cell phone network [6]. For a possible use with foreign rental vehicles, the module can be mounted and removed
easily. Fig. 3 shows the overall system architecture for both the software and the hardware part.
Fig. 3.