Recently, more and more business managers think of “physical distribution and logistics as the business strategy” in the business operations. The importance of physical distribution and logistics are realized again regardless of industries.
The “IoT”, an abbreviation for “Internet of Things”.
There is an “information technology revolution” behind the emergence of “IoT”. This “information technology revolution” is led by the basic three underlying technologies:
- Central Processing Unit (CPU)”
- Storage
- Networking
These technologies keep evolving exponentially. At the same time, evolution of “sensor technology” also advances. For example, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Global Positioning System (GPS), and sensors which sense acceleration, temperature, weight, or sound are improving and getting smaller everyday.
Information that has been traditionally transmitted by “humans” are now being handled by “IoT” enabled “things” to directly communicate with each other and vast amounts of digital “Big Data” to be stored and used in the cloud. By enabling data with “Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, various kinds of information, which could not be obtained by normal data visualization, become available. This allows for further insight into logistics and manufacturing processes that we will be able to discover previously undetected problems.
It may be possible to understand problems which could not be discovered through the conventional analysis and enable work to be done faster, safer, and more effeciently. This is just one of the benifits of “IoT”.
Paper documents can be converted into digital or electronic data (such as PDF, CSV, and e-mail). Although more and more information and content are available digitally a lot of paper documents are still used in the logistics sites.
For responding to upcoming “IoT society”, unexpected and innovative streamlining in the logistics operation will be proactively promoted by uploading and analyzing enormous amount of digitalized operation data of the site.
