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PORT OPERATIONS “Like PEIR, SpotSee aims to take the guess work out of what happened to your box or cargo, leveraging technology to do it. Unlike PEIR, SpotSee’s ShockLog is with you and your cargo over every mile of the journey. But, that’s just the beginning.” largest impacts, a CSV fle with the top 50 largest impacts, and direction of impact; and a slot-time report from the SpotBot. • Impacts-over-time visualization of each asset;

By using SpotBot to track cargo through the value chain, • Histogram the asset’s impacts; you can pinpoint issues during transportation so that they can • Real-time Reporting; be remedied and avoided in the future. The visibility to impact • Detailed Impact Alarm Data; and temperature data that SpotBot provides can help you real- • Cloud Solution Software.

ize signifcant savings of both time and money by ensuring that your product reaches the customer without incident. And,

CARGO SECURITY GOES HIGH TECH with the capacity to record data for 870 events and 262,000- “Our push to incorporate the IoT was simply the act of time slots, the device sends alerts whenever damage may have aligning our customers’ connected expectations with our great occurred so that the cargo owner can respond promptly. measurement and monitoring tools. The transformation helps

Finally, the SpotSee cloud is where trip data is aggregated in customers make better decisions with higher probabilities of real-time. The cloud features visualizations for multiple units. success through their data and experience over time. At the

The graphs are easy to read and include data such as specifcs end of the day, our mission is to give unbiased, virtual eyes to of impact with locations, impacts over time, histogram, and operations, maintenance, quality, logistics and supply chain temperature. managers around the globe,” said Tony Fonk, CEO, SpotSee.

Tom Burke sees a similar mission, saying, “Ideally, the condi-

SPOTSEE CLOUD FEATURES tion of a piece of equipment should be documented with PEIR • Access to data from wherever you are with a at every point of interchange. The cost of just under $1 is an dedicated web portal; introductory price point. We believe that PEIR will be frst uti- • Real-time reporting and tracking of incidents; lized at trucking interchange points, but PEIR’s value will be • Alarms with location, time, impact g-level, quickly realized by other industry participants and adopted.”

Looking ahead, any Party to a cargo ship- ment whose trading partner employs PEIR at any point along the way (and does not protect themselves by doing the same), puts them- selves at considerable risk. Similarly, the impact of that dropped box in Singapore can now be heard around the globe in Chicago by its owner, simply by employing the technolo- gies provided by SpotSee. Like the commer- cial vessel emitting that now ubiquitous AIS signal on a 24/7/365 basis, those responsible for cargo damage now have nowhere to hide.

But, only if shippers spend a little money in advance. These ‘high-tech’ solutions are just that simple.

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