Tracking and data analysis as the key to efficient transport

Even Daniel MacGregor was surprised at the beginning by the size of the efficiency boost. “A Dutch firm had asked us to track its journeys and record how efficiently it was transporting its goods. The result was shocking and, until that point, the company itself had no idea that it had been working so inefficiently.” However, this realisation was not down to the Globehopper alone, but to all the data it had collected and to Nexxiot’s algorithms, which had led to the correct conclusions. “There is no overarching monitoring system for freight cars,” says the company’s founder. He gives an example: “If a delivery does not reach a company on time, the logistics manager starts phoning the various stations the train is supposed to have passed through with the cargo. It can sometimes take days to track it down.” Nexxiot avoids these problems by mounting the Globehopper on its customers’ freight cars, automatically analysing the data collected and showing customers how to become more efficient. Daniel MacGregor explains: “Our system means, for example, that different customers’ goods can be transported in the same freight car – something that hasn’t been done before now.”