From blood donations to industrial chemicals

Whatever you’re looking for, and wherever it’s located – find it with Location Based Services from T-Systems.

Losing and replacing containers is an expensive business – whether they fall into the harbor, are destroyed by a crane, or simply stolen. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), based in Paris, estimates that theft alone generates annual costs of up to 50 billion euros in the global container transportation industry. Thanks to Location Based Services (LBS) from T-Systems, ship owners and freight forwarders can now rapidly identify the precise position of their containers – enabling searches of local loading facilities, road networks, and entire fleets of ships.

Knowing what is where, when

Where are the laptops ordered from Korea? Has the container of sneakers from Singapore already been unloaded in Hamburg? Why is it taking so long to change railroad tracks at the Russian border? For logistics companies, tracking and tracing cargo and transportation resources is key to efficient supply-chain management and communications. Combining GPS technology with wireless communications networks, such as UMTS and WLAN, gives freight forwarders, suppliers, and customers real-time visibility into the exact whereabouts of their container and its contents. What’s more, if a container is sealed with an RFID chip, any unauthorized attempt to open or move it is immediately detected.

Locating employees – a matter of life and death?

The rapid localization of employees can also be of critical importance – in the health-care industry, for example. In emergency situations, LBS solutions ensure that the relevant hospital staff and equipment, such as infusion pumps, get to the patient as quickly as possible. In addition, LBS supports the management of blood reserves and medication throughout their entire lifecycle – delivering reliable information on how much is available and where, whenever it’s needed.