IoT
The need for transparency in the supply chain will encourage experts in transportation, warehousing, manufacturing and retail to find innovative ways to improve information flows. Now-a-days, individual consumers make use of big data to improve their standard of living. For example, they use GPS data on traffic to choose which route they will take with their car. Like this, the Internet of Things (IoT) provides endless possibilities in supply chain logistics.
Same as customers use GPS data on car traffic, organizations can use for example the website www.marinetraffic.cm, that uses GPS data from cargo ships, tankers, fishing ships and pleasure crafts.
Inventory and Warehouse Management
Using sensors, tags, and other IoT devices to track goods through the global supply chain is one of the most important use of IoT. There are active and passive tags. Passive tags have an RFID antenna and a microchip for storing information, whereas active tags create their own battery power and sometimes have additional sensors. Internet-connected trackers use long-range networks to let companies track products throughout the whole supply chain. Some trackers also use satellite information to track items all over the world. In smaller areas Bluetooth tags are used. There are also tags that allow workers to use their mobile phones as reader for the tag.
Fleet Management
Fleet management can be divided in three categories:
- Physical asset movement and delivery, trucks that transport goods to fulfill consumers’ needs.
- Consumer transportation, using vehicles to transport consumers, mostly done by governments.
- Field-service vehicles, vehicles transporting workers while doing their job.
Companies and even governments also use IoT to improve their fleet processes. Much like inventory and warehouse management, these improvements are also based on data on the locations and operations of their vehicles that GPS and other tracking technologies offer.
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