Hi, I would like to share an idea i had a while back with you flexport folks.
I work in an IoT company that focus on the hardware side, while I am the one responsable for having the software running smooth.
Chatting about the new hardware piece that were coming my first though was the following.
Have a very small piece of hardware, transmitter, to ship along whatever you are shipping. The transmitter will regularly (even every 5 minutes) transmit its position so that would be possible to track the geographical coordinates of every lot of product that is shipped.
The difficult part is that the transmitter need a receiver (with Internet connectivity) in close range ~10km, the solution would be to install those receiver in the ship or in the truck or in the train.
The hardware itself is something that we are using every day and it is not a big issue, the only real problem that I see is the installation of those receivers.
Is this something worth solving?
I work in an IoT company that focus on the hardware side, while I am the one responsable for having the software running smooth.
Chatting about the new hardware piece that were coming my first though was the following.
Have a very small piece of hardware, transmitter, to ship along whatever you are shipping. The transmitter will regularly (even every 5 minutes) transmit its position so that would be possible to track the geographical coordinates of every lot of product that is shipped.
The difficult part is that the transmitter need a receiver (with Internet connectivity) in close range ~10km, the solution would be to install those receiver in the ship or in the truck or in the train.
The hardware itself is something that we are using every day and it is not a big issue, the only real problem that I see is the installation of those receivers.
Is this something worth solving?