Featured in Food Logistics: IoT Technology Uplifts Container Tracking

“Intelligent” containers can provide real-time visibility of inventory, including critical areas such as temperature, humidity, vibration and air quality.

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The Maersk Line remote container management system uses satellite signals for monitoring vessels at sea and cellular signals for tracking over land.
The Maersk Line remote container management system uses satellite signals for monitoring vessels at sea and cellular signals for tracking over land.

The expansion of satellite and cellular networks has unleashed a tidal wave of opportunities for tracking containers in transport.

As a result, technology investments have increased from 2014 to 2016, with IoT (Internet of Things) sensor and monitoring technology posting the biggest increase at 19 percent, followed by data loggers at 14 percent and GPS and satellite technology at 5 percent, according to a survey by AT&T and eft Supply Chain and Logistics Business Intelligence. The survey polled 600 supply chain decision makers to learn about their existing and future plans for leveraging IoT within their operations.

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