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Cargo terminal, logistics hub, and warehouse automation and monitoring

Find a specific item among millions of others with indoor and outdoor positioning solutions combining GPS, Wi-Fi sniffing, and Bluetooth indoor positioning.

Thousands if not millions of individual supply chains intersect at cargo terminals, logistics hubs, and warehouses, making them among the most logistically challenging environments. In these fast-moving settings, monitoring the location palettes, roll cages, or Kanban containers containing goods and taking advantage of automation are essential to efficiently fulfill orders, plan capacity, and address weaknesses as soon as they appear.

Benefits of u-blox solutions for cargo terminal, logistics hub, and warehouse automation and monitoring   

  • Seamless indoor and outdoor positioning combining GPS technology, cell tower fingerprinting (CellLocate), passive Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth indoor positioning
  • Simplified data management with u-blox communication as a service.
  • u-blox common API for outdoor and indoor positioning
  • Indoor tracking with submeter accuracy

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Use cases for cargo terminal, logistics hub, and warehouse automation and monitoring

Cargo terminal ground service equipment monitoring

Aviation and shipping cargo terminals need to be meticulously operated to ensure that personal belongings and other assets reach their destination. These indoor/outdoor environments benefit from seamless indoor/outdoor positioning solutions, for example, combining GPS technology with Bluetooth mesh and direction finding.

Pallet and roll cage tracking

Pallets, intermediate bulk containers (IBCs), and roll cages are widely adopted by logistics companies to efficiently handle goods in warehouses. To maximize coverage, pallet and roll cage trackers require redundant positioning technologies, for example, combining GPS, Wi-Fi sniffing, and Bluetooth direction finding.

Kanban containers

Kanban containers have become an industry standard in intralogistics to handle loose items such as screws, nuts, and bolts. They typically feature RFID transponders to automate stock keeping. These could be replaced with Bluetooth low energy tags in order to simplify infrastructure deployments of inbound/outbound raw material monitoring systems and enhance global scalability.

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