On this episode of the IoT For All Podcast, Himanshu Mehrotra, Vice President of Product Administration at FourKites, joins Ryan Chacon to debate IoT within the freight business. The dialog covers how IoT and AI allow revolutionary delivery visibility options, reminiscent of real-time transport visibility platforms, the significance of IoT in offering real-time knowledge and predictive analytics to make sure well timed manufacturing and supply, automating gate operations and using sensible labels for granular monitoring, knowledge standardization and intermittent connectivity challenges, laptop imaginative and prescient and cameras as sensors, and utilizing generative AI to supply suggestions for optimizing the provision chain.
About Himanshu Mehrotra
Himanshu Mehrotra is the Vice President of Product Administration at FourKites. He oversees the core cargo visibility options and the information platform that allows FourKites to hook up with exterior ecosystems of knowledge indicators, both from direct integrations, indicators from IoT units, or onboarded units on property.
Himanshu has over 20 years of expertise in provide chain know-how. Previous to FourKites, he formed the answer technique and go-to-market method for management tower and logistics options at Blue Yonder, the place he additionally leveraged machine learning-based predictive analytics.
Himanshu has been on the forefront of the provision chain business’s most transformational modifications, witnessing firsthand the profound affect of occasions such because the pandemic on retail and manufacturing and the revolutionary affect of innovators like Amazon on buyer conduct.
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About FourKites
FourKites extends real-time visibility past transportation into yards, warehouses, shops, and extra, monitoring over 3.2 million shipments each day throughout 200+ international locations and territories. FourKites combines real-time knowledge and highly effective AI to assist firms make their provide chain extra environment friendly. Over 1,500 of the world’s most acknowledged manufacturers – together with 9 of the highest 10 CPG and 18 of the highest 20 meals and beverage firms – belief FourKites to cut back prices and enhance buyer satisfaction.
Key Questions and Matters from this Episode:
(00:23) Introduction to Himanshu Mehrotra and FourKites
(03:14) IoT within the freight business and provide chain
(08:04) Developments in IoT units and connectivity
(10:32) What does real-time IoT knowledge allow?
(12:42) Knowledge standardization
(14:07) Intermittent connectivity challenges
(15:47) Turning knowledge into worth with AI
(19:39) Utilizing generative AI within the provide chain
(21:03) What’s the way forward for IoT within the freight business?
(23:46) Cameras as sensors and laptop imaginative and prescient
(26:30) Be taught extra and observe up