Disrupting Logistics and Transportation Using IoT Technologies

Speaker #1: Damon Allison - C.H. Robinson

The logistics industry is ripe for disruption. It's a trillion dollar, fragmented market with legacy tech. Despite the hype around autonomous trucks and automation, the industry remains largely manual and inefficient. Tracking packages, trucks, and deliveries remains largely manual. EDI connections dominate data transmission. Millions of deliveries are tracked via email, phone, and SMS.

But fear not. Disruption in logistics is well under way. VC investment and tech companies are pouring into the industry. And IoT is playing a role. IoT is advancing the entire supply chain - from smart sprinklers in a farmer’s field, to ELD and tracking devices in vehicles, to energy tracking in warehouses, to road sensors and autonomous driving, to final mile delivery.

In this talk, we'll discuss the current state of IoT in logistics. Where and how IoT is improving the industry, the potential it has, and opportunities individual hackers and small companies have in the space. And quite frankly, where the pain points are today. IoT in logistics is in its infancy.

We'll also look at a real world IoT initiative I was involved with at C.H. Robinson. Our goal was simple: reduce high value freight spoilage for key customers like Starbucks and Driscoll's Produce. I'll discuss the IoT temp sensors we evaluated and used, the data we collected for analysis and the collection and analysis process. We'll look at the success the project had, along with the frustrating logistic, tech, and device challenges we ran into along the way. By the end, you'll realize, without a doubt, that there is huge opportunity for IoT in logistics.

Speaker #2: Kelly Nehowig, President / CTO of Applied Logic Engineering, Inc.

Telematics in the IoT space - The Internet of Things space has been extended to include telematics, which is the convergence of telecommunications and information processing, as it applies to the transportation industry. This talk will focus on how this technology is being used in several different transportation sectors, but will focus on the long-haul trucking industry. We will discuss the equipment deployed in the vehicle, the information collected, and the methods used to mine the data to allow the fleet manager to improve efficiency, decrease down time, and increase driver safety.

Mr. Nehowig is the founder of Applied Logic Engineering, Inc. ALE was started in 1984 as a consulting business in the areas of embedded systems and associated software development. Over the years, additional capabilities have been added to ALE’s range of services, including technical business consulting, commercial product development, and development team construction

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