This new tracking label could help solve cargo theft
Imagine you’re Guy Fieri. (Stay with me.)
It’s late 2024 and the president of your company calls to tell you that 24,000 bottles of your tequila have vanished. You’d presumably have a number of questions, but chief among them is likely: how did this happen?
The answer is that global cargo theft is becoming increasingly sophisticated, all while the shipping and logistics industries are struggling to keep up. Unfortunately for the industry, much of the world’s cargo essentially goes dark between checkpoints at ports or distribution centers.
On Wednesday, fleet management company Samsara is announcing its own solution to this problem in the form of a business-card sized sticky tracking label. Simply called the Samsara Tracking Label, it resembles any number of shipping labels that might be affixed to cargo big and small. But that label is hiding a small zinc battery and Bluetooth low energy tech that can be...
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