Logistics
Logistics Overview
In an increasingly complex logistics landscape, Energous is at the forefront of innovation with its cutting-edge wireless power solutions, providing you with a new strategic advantage. Flawless asset tracking, automated inventory management, and clearing operational bottlenecks are all enabled through our technology. From warehouse efficiency to real-time people tracking, Energous is revolutionizing operational processes for logistics service providers.
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Improved Loss Prevention
Energous-enabled wireless sensors on pallets, containers, and trucks provide real-time tracking to detect tampering and attempted theft as well as identify problematic routes where losses occur so they can be corrected proactively.
Reduced Product Waste
Wireless sensors can continuously monitor environmental conditions like temperature and humidity to provide alerts to risks like cold-chain breaches that can cause cargo damage. Sensors on perishable items can track expiration dates to enable automated first-in/first-out (FIFO) stock rotation to minimize waste.
Enhanced Quality Control
To succeed, businesses must create an agile organization that can take advantage of market factors in their favor and protect against those that aren’t. IoT sensors are designed to future-proof the organization, arming decision makers with the tools to make the right decision at a moment’s notice.
Automated Pallet Building
Wirelessly powered sensors let warehouse employees know exactly what’s in each box on every shelf throughout the building. If staff starts prepping a pallet and there’s a gap on the shelf where the last box should be, tag readers can scan the warehouse and find it instantly. No opening boxes to search by hand, and no need for the truck to backtrack because they left items behind.
Enhanced Accuracy and Efficiency
Warehouses are bustling with activity and it can lead to mistakes if someone grabs the wrong box off a mislabeled shelf. It creates a snowball effect, because now efficiency is impacted while the search is on for the right item. Electronic shelf labels are always on and constantly being updated with the latest information, so there’s no guessing game involved.
Reduced Operational Cost
Paper labels can lead to potential inaccuracies and costly mistakes in the shipping process. Every time products move, another label has to be printed to replace the previous one. Electronic shelf labels are powered wirelessly over the air so they always maintain a charge and can be updated without being replaced.
Operational Scalability and Flexibility
Active energy harvesting enables the placement of sensors in challenging environments where physical connections or battery replacement are impractical. IoT networks can be deployed in remote locations, hazardous environments, or hard-to-reach areas, expanding the possibilities of data collection and analysis.
Improved Data Quality and Accuracy
Wireless transmission ensures a consistent power supply for IoT sensors, eliminating the risk of power interruptions and improving the reliability and accuracy of data collection. Sensors remain operational around the clock, delivering real-time insights critical for decision-making.
Predictive Maintenance Capabilities
By eliminating the need for battery replacements and maintenance visits, active energy harvesting significantly reduces operational costs. The data from IoT sensors lets the organization know maintenance is necessary before equipment goes down. Organizations can redirect resources to more strategic initiatives, improving overall efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
Faster Shipping Speeds
For organizations that are shipping perishable, time-sensitive products, such as medication or food, speed is paramount. If truck loading takes too long, or boxes get lost in the shuffle, these products can go bad before they even leave the warehouse. Tracking sensors enable speed and efficiency, delivering automated data that eliminates time-consuming manual processes.
Automated Traceability
It is critical to know where products are coming and where they’re going. Counterfeiters and other bad actors can infiltrate the supply chain with fake products and bad materials that must be thrown away. With the automated insights from IoT sensors, organizations can trace the lineage of every item and ensure its authenticity before it taints the lot.
Real-Time Shipping Conditions
Organizations need to ensure products are headed to the right place and they’re going to make it on time. But beyond real-time GPS data, tracking sensors can deliver insights about temperature and other external factors that might impact the usefulness of those products, and make adjustments on the spot to ensure nothing goes to waste.
End-to-End Product Tracking
Sensors can be placed on boxes, and scanners can check thousands at a time automatically without stopping the process. Plus, they can be placed around the warehouse to collect data about the efficiency with which products are being moved to eliminate bottlenecks.
Automated Packing and Shipping
Wireless sensors offer the next best thing to costly robots that pack and ship without human intervention. As humans are building pallets and loading trucks, sensor tags and readers can automate quality control and let teams know if something isn’t quite right.
Streamlined Distribution
Tracking sensors are built to operate on the go from anywhere, as they’re powered wirelessly over the air so nobody has to worry about stopping the conveyor belt to change a battery or find a charging cord to scan boxes as they go by.
Enhanced Product Visibility
Tracking sensors attached to each unit in the shipment eliminate the possibility of losing track of shipments in the production and distribution process. Organizations can use readers that are capable of scanning thousands of tags at once and immediately delivering location data and other information critical to preventing any lost inventory.
Data-Driven Efficiencies
In today’s environment of high costs, it’s important to be as lean as possible. That means looking beyond what the eye can see and using data to analyze the entire organization. Tracking sensors powered wirelessly over the air work from anywhere, delivering information about bottlenecks big and small, and offering insights into a solution.
Future-Proofed Scalability
To succeed, businesses must create an agile organization that can take advantage of market factors in their favor and protect against those that aren’t. IoT sensors are designed to future-proof the organization, arming decision makers with the tools to make the right decision at a moment’s notice.
Delivery Route Efficiency
When trucks don’t follow the most efficient route, they end up backtracking, using more fuel and releasing more emissions. Plus, perishable products might sit in the truck too long and reach expiration before anyone can use them. Sensors placed on shipments can use data to find inefficiencies and squash them early on.
Improved Worker Safety
Wirelessly powered wearables can provide hands-free, automated risk detection, emergency alerts, and preventive insights can enhance employee safety without the fear of disruption due to power-related issues.
Optimized Shipping Conditions
One person can’t necessarily build a pallet and load a truck alone. Wearables and other devices, always on and powered by RF-based active energy harvesting, can help employees track each other and communicate when help is needed. That way, shipments aren’t just sitting around waiting for hands to come help load them.
Reduced Fuel Use and Emissions
Wireless sensors on trucks provide data for route optimization, load balancing and other analytics to improve efficiency and reduce wasted fuel mileage.
Mitigated Stock Waste
Pallets and containers with wireless tracking devices provide real-time visibility into inventory levels across the supply chain to optimize orders and prevent overstocking.
Protection of Natural Resources
Wireless power transfer enables the circulation of existing resources, minimizes dependence on fossil fuels and enables reuse and flexibility.
