MSPs servicing the Logistics industry are providing IoT solutions, which include devices containing un-steered multi-network roaming SIMs, to improve efficiency and safety records in the industry as a whole.
Fleet Management
Monitoring devices are used to provide management teams with real-time data on fuel consumption and regulatory compliance. Critical information is displayed in dashboards for management teams to monitor in real-time and analyse KPIs.
Transit Management
Devices track the exact location of a vehicle and accurately estimate arrival times. Tracking information is gathered in a central system and can be sent to relevant parties.
Smart Inventory Management
Smart inventory management systems analyse real-time data across warehouse distribution centres. By implementing sensors to track stock levels, stock management has been improved leading to more efficient distribution.
Challenges
Typically, MSPs have partnered with the mobile carriers directly for SIMs, however many have struggled with a lack of flexibility and control.
Jola’s solution
Jola is proposing an alternative to dealing with mobile carriers directly. We offer a range of competitively-priced mobile data SIMs, including unique products you can’t buy from the carriers.
Our multi-network SIMs connect to the strongest available signal and retain connectivity when multiple carrier networks fail. Using Mobile Manager, partners are able to order new SIMs and pools from a single supplier, add SIMs to pools, set up alerts and monitor the pool. If any site fails, they have the data pool to draw from.
Our solution allows resellers to compete with the end user prices of the MNOs, offers a lot more flexibility and control and has eliminated overage charges. There is only one supplier to contract with and a single portal for ordering and management of the entire SIM estate.
Logistics Frequently Asked Questions
Logistics runs on data arriving on time, whether that is a tracking update, a temperature alert or a delivery confirmation. A dropped connection does not just lose a signal, it loses visibility of where a vehicle or a shipment actually is, which is exactly the risk a multi-network SIM is designed to reduce.
Yes. Connected sensors and tracking devices across vehicles, warehouses and even individual pallets or containers can feed live location and condition data back through the supply chain, giving businesses, and their customers, visibility that was previously only available after the fact.
Jola gives partners serving logistics and fleet businesses multi-network SIMs for reliable tracking and telematics, with pooled data and a white label portal for managing every vehicle’s connectivity from one place. That means one supplier relationship instead of several, and full visibility of the fleet’s data usage as it happens.
Fleet operators typically manage connectivity through a single portal that gives visibility of every SIM across every vehicle, rather than dealing with separate contracts per network. This makes it possible to monitor usage, set alerts for unusual activity, and pool data across the fleet so individual vehicles are not hit with overage charges.
Warehouses use IoT sensors to track stock levels, monitor storage conditions such as temperature and humidity, and flag when goods need reordering, all automatically rather than relying on manual counts. Connecting these sensors reliably, particularly across large sites or outdoor storage areas, is what makes the automation useful in practice.
Live visibility of the fleet allows a logistics business to spot a delay as it develops and reroute or reallocate resources before it snowballs, rather than finding out after a delivery is already late. That depends on connectivity that keeps tracking and communication devices online throughout the route, which is where a resilient multi-network SIM makes a difference over a single-network one.
Real-time tracking lets logistics businesses see exactly where a vehicle is, react to delays as they happen, and give customers an accurate delivery estimate instead of a rough window. Without a reliable connection behind it, tracking data arrives late or has gaps, which undermines the whole point of having it.
A multi-network SIM roams to whichever mobile network is available at the vehicle’s current location, rather than being fixed to a single operator. For logistics fleets covering long routes across the country, this reduces the coverage gaps that would otherwise interrupt tracking and telematics data.
Logistics fleets use IoT connectivity for real-time vehicle tracking, telematics on driver behaviour and vehicle condition, and temperature monitoring for sensitive loads such as food or pharmaceuticals. All of this depends on a mobile connection that stays up as vehicles move across the country, not just within range of a single network.