So ideally, we want a cheap backup option for both of these needs. Also, as anyone living outside metropolitan areas can attest, coverage outside metropolitan areas can be iffy. Just beware of the cost of connectivity, especially if you’re not a big enough fish to sweet-talk your way out of per-device maintenance charges (I omit satellite options for just this reason). Off-brand cell modems from the usual sources can probably be had for much less. You can get a uBlox module for $35USD that covers this as well as free access to their cell triangulation database, which will provide rudimentary location, even indoors. The tried-and-mostly-true approach for #1 is GPS, with the caveat that it won’t work well, if at all, indoors (including units lost in your distribution center) or under dense cover.
This applies to whatever object you’d like back, including toilets, dumpsters, lighted traffic devices, reusable shipping containers… Housepets too if you can convince them to wear it. A FindM圜rapper app tied into your logistics would let you opportunistically round up your lost sheep on the way by and bring them home.ġ) Get the location of the object periodically This happens more than you might think, with various computer glitches or simple human screwups leaving inventory trapped on trucks or lost right under your nose in your own warehouse.Īs a world leader in mobile outhouses with over 1 meeeelion units in circulation worldwide, you can’t afford to have your product going walkabout all the time, so you’d like to tag them with a bit of battery-powered IoT smarts so they can report back their locations periodically. As it happens, they often get lost, stolen, blown away, forgotten somewhere or simply lost track of somewhere in your own logistics chain. Suppose you are a company that rents, leases, or otherwise loans out large numbers of some mobile object that you hope to get back at some point… say, Port-a-Potties Port-a-Johns Portaloos Honey Buckets portable toilets (yes, this is based on a true story). Internet of Toilets, data exfiltration and wardriving! Superpowers include starting the toaster via TCP/IP and tripping over tall bandwidth bills in a single bound.
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