Scan4Transport: Connecting the transport unit to its digital twin
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Voorspuij, Jaco
Ruighaver, Michiel
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The transport and logistics industry has long struggled with ensuring that operators could always effectively and efficiently handle the transport units at hand. Three challenges especially hampered the industry: 1. Transport units are often handled by several operators from source to destination. Many operators are SME with low IT capabilities. 2. Connectivity to an IT system is often not feasible and thus access to remote data not possible. 3. Proprietary approaches by large LSP makes things worse for the SME.
Scan4Transport1 (S4T) is a global standard for encoding transport data in a 2D barcode on a Logistics Label attached to Transport Units, supporting organisations across the entire transport chain from seller to buyer.
The 2D barcode: 1. contains the minimum information available for the (field) operator even in case there is no connection with a remote host system. 2. may be read with modern standard mobile phones that all operators (including SME) will have with them. 3. is globally standardized independent from any shipper, carrier, receiver, LSP or other stakeholder.
Any operator working with several/many other operators can suffice with a single application to interpret the 2D barcode and be able to handle the transport unit effectively and efficiently.
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2023-06
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