Possibility to make IT shipments more secure, deliver on promise of IoT, Pod Group, SODAQ, and Lufthansa Industry Solutions launched the first commercial Smart Label Tracking Device

“It looks like a piece of paper, it’s a little thinner than your traditional piece of paper, 2 mm thick, to accommodate the printed battery inside,” says Sam Colley, CEO, Pod Group. Pod Group has launched a new Smart Label tracking device, developed in partnership between Pod Group, Lufthansa Industry Solutions, and SODAQ. “It can work like a traditional shipping label, but you have built in this visibility for the supply chain.” In this podcast we learn about a shipping label that offers information about journey and events of a shipment, well beyond the last scan along the way.

Smart Label is 2 mm thick

The Smart Label uses the low-power cellular 5G connectivity standard (LTE CAT-M) to send data regarding device location and temperature back to a centralized dashboard, enabling logistics companies to track valuable goods which could be as small and light as an envelope containing important documents or as large as a full-sized oil painting. The powerful middleware platform provided by LHIND enables the use of geofences with notifications that can be set to alert the user when the package enters or leaves key points along the supply chain.

Colley sees this device as the beginning of what is needed to scale out IoT and to begin to deliver on the full promise of IoT. As he looks down the road at coming versions, he sees this as being a model for a wider assortment of shipments and shipping needs.

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