ronmental factors will be replaced with sensor equipment transmitting those readings remotely. IoT is much more targeted and efficient, and it will change everything.”
Many of those changes are already occurring in the regulatory environment. Regulatory pressures and recall prevention are big drivers of IoT implementation across the supply chain, but limiting the financial toll of product loss and spoilage has become attractive too. IoT-enabled solutions enable each player in the food supply chain to monitor the condition and location of their products in any environment throughout their journey. Consider temperature monitoring, for example. There are a number of reasons companies utilize sensors for this purpose. According to Andrew Dougherty, vice president of sales for SmartSense
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Preventing Product Loss and Spoilage in Transit
by Digi International, FSMA is one big driver as more regulations are mandating it, while some companies are simply trying to avoid a food safety disaster. “They understand what lasting damage that can have on the brand and the equity value,” Dougherty notes. “They look at companies like
Chipotle and say, ‘We don’t want that to happen to us.’” Others, he adds are financially motivated and look to IoT devices to avoid lost or spoiled product. Intel recently unveiled a solution, the Intel Connected Logistics Platform (CLP), to address those issues. The goal of the platform is to
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