IoT in transportation and logistics
Manage, track, and monitor connected vehicles, freight, or other assets in real time—across town and around the world—with the Internet of Things (IoT).
Azure IoT for transportation and logistics
Bring greater efficiency and reliability to your value chain with world-class IoT and location intelligence services. Improve quality of service, increase safety, and reduce cost by finding smarter ways to get people and products where they need to be.
Keep your business moving safer and more efficiently with IoT
Explore these common uses for IoT in transportation and logistics and imagine how a new Azure IoT solution—employing Azure IoT Edge, Azure IoT Hub, Azure Machine Learning, and Azure Maps—could help your business.
Smart city and urban mobility management
Manage smart transportation infrastructure, assess road conditions, and ease congestion with real-time and historic traffic intelligence.
Fleet operations
Streamline smart logistics using real-time data and alerts powered by Azure Maps to optimize delivery routes, monitor performance, and respond to delays or issues as they happen.
Intelligent supply chain
Achieve greater security, efficiency, and peace of mind for your supply chain. Track connected vehicles, cargo such as pallets, parcels, and trolleys, and deliveries in-progress.
Keep traffic flowing with fleet management
Anticipate and manage deviations with a fleet management solution built entirely from Azure IoT products. In this demo, see how to detect a vehicle issue, calculate a new route, find the nearest service stop, and minimize route delays.
Fleet management
IoT leverages real-time device and location data, powered by Azure Maps, to manage daily operations, quickly analyze root causes, and perform predictive maintenance.
An alert signals an issue in the fleet
The fleet manager monitors dozens of vehicles on routes across Europe. Through remote maintenance, they can see that there’s an incident in Germany requiring immediate attention.
A deeper look at the problem
The fleet manager checks which type of vehicle is generating this alarm. In Germany, there are 872 active vehicles carrying three types of goods: refrigerated, dry, and hazardous. The alert is traced to one of the 370 vehicles carrying hazardous goods.
A deeper look at the problem
The fleet manager traces the alert to one of the vehicles near Frankfurt. When they zoom in, Azure Maps dynamically renders greater levels of detail, including city names and major highways.
A real-time view of routes in Frankfurt
The fleet manager identifies the vehicle creating the alert near Frankfurt. In this view, they can visualize real-time traffic in the city.
Route information
The fleet manager can learn this vehicle’s route, the driver’s name, the route origin and destination, the original estimated arrival time, the new delayed arrival time, and the type of cargo the route is optimized for.
Root-cause analysis
Finally, the fleet manager gets a closer look at telemetry from the various IoT sensors aboard the vehicle.
Root-cause analysis
The alert was generated by the cooling-unit sensor, triggered by an increase in humidity.
Rerouting the driver
Using Time Series Insights on the left, the fleet manager sees that the cooling unit’s humidity threshold has been crossed, requiring the driver to be rerouted to the nearest depot. Using Azure Maps, they can identify the nearest depot and create a new route for the driver.
Alerting maintenance crews and scheduling a replacement
Through Dynamics CRM integration, the fleet manager issues a ticket to alert the depot’s maintenance crew of the problem and schedules a replacement truck and driver.
Calculating a new route and communicating with the driver
The fleet manager calculates a new route based on the same parameters as the original route, including vehicle type, cargo type, and destination, and it’s sent to the new driver.
Issue resolved
The fleet manager identified the source of the sensor alert, calculated a new route for the driver, and assigned the route to a new driver. The fleet manager can now return to the original view to oversee the rest of the fleet.
Find an IoT partner for every project
IoT system integrators
Integrate customized IoT solutions with your existing systems.
IoT device manufacturers
Use Azure Certified for IoT partners for simplified device connectivity and security.
Join our IoT partner community
Systems integrations and solution developers
Offer your deep knowledge to help deliver the right IoT solution to your customers. Create and sell customized or ready-to-use IoT software and services in your area or industry of expertise.
IoT device manufacturers
Help ease device connectivity and security as an Azure Certified for IoT partner.
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