SmartContainers: A technological revolution in logistics services

stazhao (61)in #bitcoin • 6 years ago

Transporting Perishables is Hard...

In the past 100 years global trade has been growing at a phenomenal rate and the logistics services have also grown at the same pace. However, the transportation of temperature sensitive goods has never been easy, as the sensitivity of the goods is increasing the industry is facing more problems and the need for a trusted and reliable transportation infrastructure to ensure the safety of sensitive goods is also increasing.

SmartContainers can Help.

SmartContainers, a combination of software and hardware equipped with IoT sensors provides a blockchain enabled logistics infrastructure that tackles the problems occurring in the transportation of temperature sensitive goods such as medicine and fresh food. The recent studies reveal that 8.50% shipments go wrong due to temperature deviation which causes enormous loss to the industry, SmartContainers have brought this number below 0.1% that means this modern logistics infrastructure is 75% more reliable as compared to the current market leader in logistics.

The company has two wings, Sky Cell responsible for the transportation of pharmaceutical goods via SmartContainers, is already functional and has been providing its services for the last 4 years and has already attained 4th position in the industry. Food Guardians the other wing of the same company is now entering the market of fresh food supplies, applying the same technology as used in the transportation of pharmaceuticals. The idea is to move the fresh food products from farm to the end consumer in an intelligently controlled and monitored temperature to make sure that the quality and freshness of the food is not compromised throughout the supply chain.

The company promises to develop and establish a powerful logistics infrastructure that will make it possible to create invoices through SmartContracts and the payments will be done in cryptocurrencies. It will allow real time tracking with the help of blockchain technology. In tradition supply chains there is no way to monitor the temperature deviation during transportation but the sensors used in SmartContainers provide a complete history of transportation from farm to the final destination, hence no risk of delivering damaged food items.

One can say with confidence that SmartContainers are bringing the much needed revolution in the transportation of temperature sensitive goods.