The challenge
Logistics is always
only as efficient
as its least efficient part.
Logistics is absolutely vital to the economic health of any economy.
Increased demand, added complexity of eCommerce and global supply chain disruption have all made managing operations at logistic hubs challenging.
Logistics plays an even more important role as eCommerce becomes more popular.
Increased pressures on logistics hubs to increase output should never be done by compromising health and safety.
Truck driver shortage – economic stimuli and monetary policies across Europe are driving inflation. Shortages in the labor market are also driving up road freight costs. Acute driver shortages are prevalent across the UK and Europe.
Reports say that there’s a potential 178% increase in return on investment (ROI) thanks to port automation.
Almost 4,900 fatal crashes in the United States in 2018 involved large trucks.
Increase efficiency and visibility
Incremental adoption of semi-autonomous technologies could help improve safety and increase efficiency. This also helps prepare business for further innovations.
Private 5G opportunitiesSemi-autonomous technologies in the logistics industry
Private 5G has the potential to transform the logistics industry by enhancing the data compute required as logistics hubs evolve operations and adopt autonomous technologies.
Rapid responsiveness is critical to realizing safe, efficient semi-autonomous technologies.
The low lag (or latency) of private 5G could help enable near real-time sense and response to complex, dynamic environments like warehouses, ports and airports.
The throughput of private 5G could eventually handle the large volumes of data gathered from sensors and cameras across hubs.
Cómo funciona
A day in the life of a semi-autonomous reach stacker
At a port, a reach stacker operator receives instructions in a storage block to move a container.
Private 5G, with its high-speed connectivity and massive data capacity, could help support or amplify the reach stacker’s safe navigation of the port’s storage block.
A day in the life of a semi-autonomous reach stacker
- The reach stacker uses a variety of sensors utilizing radar, lasers and cameras to create an internal map; this computes traffic and obstacles and adjusts speed and direction accordingly.
Private 5G and the computing power of edge computing servers could enable low latency and faster response for semi autonomous technologies.
A day in the life of a semi-autonomous reach stacker
- The reach stacker’s specific location is able to be monitored from the company’s online platform; so they know exactly what’s going on and when the reach stacker arrives at its designated container.
- Near real-time analytics into the fleet performance could help companies better manage and plan their supply chain and increase their efficiency.
Future use case not currently available.
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