* New York - Lift truck data: The next frontier
... Lift trucks would one day function as mobile data hubs, connecting to systems and devices beyond warehouse management systems (WMS). It could soon be possible, he said, to use the resulting data to better manage the warehouse as a whole... Lift truck telematics—the transmission of data to and from industrial trucks— and the technologies used for collecting, sharing, and analyzing lift truck-related data have made great strides... These developments have enabled the once-humble forklift to become a full-fledged member of the Internet of Things (IoT), which the McKinsey Global Institute defines as devices that can "monitor their environment, report their status, receive instructions, and even take action based on the information they receive" ... With the right technology on board, lift trucks can do all that and more, opening the way for them to function as the data hubs envisioned several years ago. But it doesn't end there. Engineers and software developers are thinking up additional ways to apply lift truck telematics and data technologies. If their ideas become reality, then the forklift of the future could be more than to the basic material handling tool of the past... Providers of these systems expect that concerns about the technology's maturity and implementation costs will dissipate as prices drop. It won't be long, they say, before fleet managers stop thinking of telematics as a futuristic concept and come to see it as a necessary part of everyday operations... But many fleet managers are just beginning to recognize that telematics can introduce game-changing efficiencies to their operations...
NY, USA - DC Velocity, by Toby Gooley - September 7, 2015Labels: transport and logistics prognosis
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