Take advantage of a complete end-to-end solution. 

Shipping companies and their customers bear a vital responsibility in safely moving temperature-sensitive products —pharmaceuticals, biologics, food and beverages—throughout the supply chain. Without proper environmental monitoring, unsuitable conditions during transport and storage can risk human lives, economic losses and damage to brands and customer loyalty.

 

That’s why one of the world’s leading professional services company, Cognizant, took on the challenge to be one of the first to engineer an intelligent asset tracking application on Verizon’s ThingSpace and Microsoft Azure IoT accelerator solution. Making it easier for companies to quickly power up an end-to-end solution that senses, monitors, and manages data at every link in the cold chain-- keeping food and medicine shipments safe.

 

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Driving compliance and value in Cold Chain management

The need for innovative, value-driven Cold Chain solutions is increasingly evident:

$15 Billion 1.3 Billion 1.3 Billion
Annual loss suffered by the life scinces industry due to cold chain interruptions* Tons of food is wasted annually - enough to feed 2 billion people Percentage of global shipments that are damaged
*Source: CargoSense

 

 

 

Cognizant's solution

Our solution helps cut implementation time and costs by integrating core IoT infrastruture components into one bundled solution:

  • Verizon ThingSpace platform gathers sensor data, manages it at the edge and uses APIs to deliver insights to enterprise applications using Microsoft’s Azure IoT Central cloud and analytics platforms.
  • Verizon’s LTE-M and 5G ultrawideband network delivers secure and reliable connectivity.
  • Verizon’s Critical Asset Sensor device monitors not only temperature, but location, vibration, humidity, pressure/impact, acceleration, tilt and light.
  • Cloud hosting on Microsoft Azure IoT Central provides a low-code enterprise-grade platform that easily scales as you deploy your solution.
  • The Cold Chain application provides cloud-based analytics and pre-built templates to quickly ingest critical data from business assets and begin visualizing it in near real time.
  • Cognizant’s experience in supply chain, industry and global systems integration guides how companies develop, deploy and operationalize a complete cold chain storage solution.

 

 

 

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