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samstave
on Oct 28, 2015
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Convoy presents itself as “Uber for trucking”
In 2007 or so, a number of us engineers from Lockheed had created a shipping/trucking cargo tracking device... It was a combo rfid tag with gprs, gps, wifi and mesh networking capabilities along with sensors like accelerometers...
Nobody wanted it.
Yakimoto
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in 2012 we had this in Afghanistan on almost every single container/pallet/load.
samstave
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Yeah thats what we originally built at Savi... but there was no security, wifi or any other security in those original tags.
This was the impetus behind us trying to make the modular version.
pnathan
on Oct 28, 2015
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I chatted with an engineer from Oracle a couple years ago who talked about those existing in Afghanistan, he was involved in that project somehow.
sdrothrock
on Oct 29, 2015
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Do you know what they were called/who made them? I had no idea they were actually in production.
ArkyBeagle
on Oct 28, 2015
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Around 2009 I talked to some people who offer that exact mix and were still at least open.
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Nobody wanted it.