Carrying more than 90 percent of the world’s goods—cargo worth an estimated $14 trillion each year—shipping containers are as essential to global logistics as ships, trains, and trucks. Keeping track of these ubiquitous steel boxes to ensure they and their contents reach their destination is a significant undertaking, with an estimated 65 million containers in circulation.
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Beyond leisure, drones offer enormous potential for developing a wide array of innovative applications that benefit society.
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Logistics companies can manage their supply chains and respond to issues more efficiently when they have a clear and continuous view of the location of assets carried by containers and pallets. Asset tracking enables them to have this. And it goes beyond mere logistics.
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How to trade-off location accuracy against battery life in cellular IoT asset trackers
By Ville-Veikko Helppi January 19, 2022
A global supply chain that was already under some strain has been placed under far greater pressure by the pandemic as locked-down consumers turned to online shopping in their hundreds of millions.
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Bluetooth LE can be used to report on the condition of fragile cargoes, while cellular IoT can forward that data to the Cloud wherever there's telecoms infrastructure.
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Low power wireless tech-based solutions can help instigate a productivity boost in the construction sector. Companies could take advantage of real-time field reporting by connecting and tracking materials, equipment, and, most importantly, workers at the construction site.
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Will manufacturers and distributors manage to ship COVID-19 vaccines safely to all corners of the world? The challenge is not only the magnitude and urgency of the task. The temperature requirements of the COVID-19 vaccines is a massive burden for the production and distribution chain.
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Cellular IoT asset tracker ensures timely delivery of critical shipments
By Jerry Pietroforte October 14, 2020
The global pandemic has seen a massive increase in online shopping, accelerating a trend that has seen the world move towards home delivery. That's made it even more critical that both consumers and commercial customers can track deliveries of goods from warehouses to their homes or businesses.
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Sophisticated technology is now on hand to track goods in transit, not only instruct where a parcel is on its journey but also to log and report what conditions and events it has been subjected to.
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