MOBILE IOT
GSMA Mobile IoT summit San Francisco
Mobile World Congress 2017 Highlights
Parker is also keen to point towards the industrial applications on show at the event , with one example surrounding the connectivity of pallets coming to mind . “ There are around 15bn pallets in the world , and trying to fit tracking devices to them is difficult , chiefly because they fall off and run out of power ,” he says . This causes particular issues for food companies looking to track shipments , a major problem being the significant temperature fluctuations in the cold chain – temperatures that need to be maintained from harvest to supermarket .
Monitoring which pallets of produce have suffered breaks in the cold chain can help the distributor minimize waste . A smarter pallet will be able to detect the produce that has suffered temperature fluctuations ,
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