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Asset Tracking in Logistics: When and Which Technologies to Implement

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Modern asset tracking systems allow business operators and managers to always be on top of their assets’ location, condition, maintenance status, and performance, having access to all collected data in centralized storage. But there are also other important aspects to decide on. Which and how many assets have to be tracked?

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Fuel Management System: On the Road to Fuel Economy

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Fuel economy/efficiency in transportation is an indicator of how long a vehicle can travel on a unit of gas. Fuel cards are used everywhere, except in the instances where the transportation company uses their own fueling facilities. Fuel storage monitoring. In the US, it’s expressed as miles per gallon (MPG). per gallon saved.

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Making Sense of IoT Platforms: AWS vs Azure vs Google vs IBM vs Cisco

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Namely, these layers are: perception layer (hardware components such as sensors, actuators, and devices; transport layer (networks and gateway); processing layer (middleware or IoT platforms); application layer (software solutions for end users). Perception layer: IoT hardware. Transport layer: networks and gateways.

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Logistics Management Systems: How Warehouse, Transportation, and Distribution Software Work

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Digitalization will allow warehousing and transportation operations to elevate customer experience, deliver more value to partners, and consequently – create an effective ecosystem of supply chain providers: manufacturers, carriers, freight forwarders, and more. Strategic transport planning. Warehouse design.

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What is Streaming Analytics: Data Streaming, Stream Processing, and Real-time Analytics

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A complete guide to business intelligence and analytics. The role of business intelligence developer. Given those characteristics, stream analytics are typically used in the following industries: Heavy machinery/transportation/fleet operations : sourcing data streams from sensors and IoT devices. Batch processing.

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IoT Architecture: the Pathway from Physical Signals to Business Decisions

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Most commonly, these layers are: the perception layer hosting smart things; the connectivity or transport layer transferring data from the physical layer to the cloud and vice versa via networks and gateways; the processing layer employing IoT platforms to accumulate and manage all data streams; and. The skeleton of an IoT system.

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The Good and the Bad of Docker Containers

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During shipment, goods are carried using different types of transport: trucks, cranes, forklifts, trains, ships, etc. What’s more, the goods come in different sizes and shapes and have different transportation requirements. Then came standardized intermodal containers that revolutionized the transportation industry.