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Whatever you’re looking for, and wherever it’s located – find it with Location Based Services from T-Systems.
Losing and replacing containers is an expensive business – whether they fall into the harbor, are destroyed by a crane, or simply stolen. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based in Paris, estimates that theft alone generates annual costs of up to 50 billion euros in the global container transportation industry. Thanks to Location Based Services (
LBSLocation Based Services (LBS)
Location Based Services play a key role in ensuring mobility and flexibility in today’s networked world. For complex business models – such as that of Toll Collect – LBS identifies the position of objects, and captures and manages the corresponding data. The company’s pioneering road-pricing system gathers information on a truck’s location and calculates road charges– one example of how LBS can be combined with satellite and wireless technology to provide visibility into the movement of traffic and goods. LBS are high-availability services that can be deployed practically anywhere – enabling entirely new business models. What’s more, Location-Based Services can simplify and improve everyday life for consumers, too.
) from T-Systems, ship owners and freight forwarders can now rapidly identify the precise position of their containers – enabling searches of local loading facilities, road networks, and entire fleets of ships. Knowing what is where, when
Where are the laptops ordered from Korea? Has the container of sneakers from Singapore already been unloaded in Hamburg? Why is it taking so long to change railroad tracks at the Russian border? For logistics companies, tracking and tracing cargo and transportation resources is key to efficient supply-chain management and communications. Combining GPS technology with wireless communications networks, such as
UMTSUMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System is a third-generation (3G) mobile telephony standard that will replace GSM-based mobile communications and offer a broader range of services. UTMS supports powerful multimedia offerings. In addition to voice and audio, these can include rapid transfer of data, graphics and text as well as moving images and video. To take fuller advantage of these new capabilities, UTMS cellular phones are equipped with video cameras and color displays.
and WLAN, gives freight forwarders, suppliers, and customers real-time visibility into the exact whereabouts of their container and its contents. What’s more, if a container is sealed with an
RFIDRFIDRadio Frequency Identification technology is employed to remotely retrieve information using radio waves An RFID system comprises a transponder and a data reader. A transponder receives incoming signals and automatically responds to them. In conjunction with RFID, transponders are known as tags, which can be active or passive. Tags are affixed to an object in such a way that the information stored on them can be retrieved remotely. Tagged objects can be unambiguously identified.
chip, any unauthorized attempt to open or move it is immediately detected. Locating employees – a matter of life and death?
The rapid localization of employees can also be of critical importance – in the health-care industry, for example. In emergency situations, LBS solutions ensure that the relevant hospital staff and equipment, such as infusion pumps, get to the patient as quickly as possible. In addition, LBS supports the management of blood reserves and medication throughout their entire lifecycle – delivering reliable information on how much is available and where, whenever it’s needed.
