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WHY LoRaWAN
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IS THE LOGICAL CHOICE
FOR ASSET-TRACKING CONNECTIVITY
significant impact on the environment. The industry
needs to mov e toward su stainab le way s of deliv ering
goods, way s that redu ce emissions and optimiz e sage
of resou rces. here are already ef orts in this direction
su ch as the reen nergy Logistics initiativ e L.
Legislation that aims to mov e transport sy stems toward
electric ehicles will hav e a great impact on how the
logistics indu stry will change.
3. New ways of working and the new workforce.
he increasing se of technologies su ch as rob otics,
oT au gmented reality AR) and irtu al reality R)
are changing the working env ironment in logistics.
Rob ots are reeing hu mans rom dangerou s tasks.
ollab orativ e rob ots are working together with hu mans.
All this creates new workplaces, and that req ires
inv estments on machine/ hu man interactions. t is also
likely that legislation in this area is orthcoming.
ASSET TRACKING IN LOGISTICS
he asset tracking is an important application or
addressing the first two trends described in the previous
section. hat is ecau se it is an important component of
the logistics serv ices. n act, the World ank LP Logistics
erf ormance ndex a composite indicator that measu res
the logistics capab ilities of a cou ntry inclu des racking
and racing" as one of the six indicators, which the index
is composed of .
Figure 3 shows the top 0 cou ntries
based on the LPI score and their scores on "Tracking and
racing." Note that the score goes rom ery Low) to
ery igh) .
n spite of these scores eing ite positiv e, the ality
of the asset-tracking capab ilities needs to e rther
dev eloped to enab le the logistics indu stry to ace the
challenges of cu stomer-centric shopping and su stainab ility .
he oT ision, in conv ergence with other emerging
technologies, can create a enu e or technological
dev elopment in asset tracking.
Top 10 LPI Countries
Tracking and
Tracing Score
ermany .24
weden .8
elgiu m .05
Au stria .09
Ja pan .05
Netherlands .02
ingapore .08
enmark .1
United ingdom .1
inland .3 2
Source: World Bank LPI (https://lpi.worldbank.org/international/global)
Figure 3. Top 10 Countries by LPI and their "Tracking
and Tracing" Scores
