[mschuster91]

Tracking the status of your cargo. At the moment you always have uncertainity during the voyage - you don't know if e.g. temperature was held consistently until you took control of the cargo after arrival, or if it was tampered with during transit in any way.

For fleet owners, no matter if for ships, cars/trucks or planes, management becomes way easier if they have global high bandwidth data uplink: you can detect stuff like engine or other part wear early by running big data analysis on telemetry, and in disaster case you have way better logs to operate on (both post mortem and during troubleshooting).

This by the way also is relevant for car manufacturers - with the exception of Tesla, the only way classic car manufacturers get information on how their cars are used in the real world comes from test drivers, accident reports and shop visits. Consistent data uplinks allow for a lot more telemetry that can be used to improve their products.

Surprisingly, even scientists can benefit from this - have ships transmit real-time data about air pressure, sunlight, wave height etc. and suddenly you have a global network of floating data buoys.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

> temperature was held consistently until you took control of the cargo after arrival, or if it was tampered with during transit in any way.

There are already temperature and tamper devices for sensitive freight. There are devices that will show if orientation has changed or if shock occurred etc.

Sensitive freight is an entire industry that has already innovated around the lack of connectivity.

That's not to say there isn't further innovation to be made.

[mschuster91]

> There are already temperature and tamper devices for sensitive freight. There are devices that will show if orientation has changed or if shock occurred etc.

Tiltguard stickers or how were they called... about the most useless bullshit I've seen. Back when I worked in stage lighting, many cases had these affixed... and you can guess what every shift leader had in their pocket: yep, a load of replacement ones.

[nitrogen]

Consistent data uplinks allow for a lot more telemetry that can be used to improve their products.

Shipping is one thing -- the company still owns the goods. But keep this out of my cars.

[sedgjh23]

I’m curious, why?

[mschuster91]

Because that data can be seized by cops or mined by secret services.