
Use of IoT in Transportation Industry

The internet of things is a popular term these days that are used to interrelate computing devices, digital machines, and mechanical objects. IoT technology is used to transfer data over a network without any human interaction. Plenty of organizations are using IoT to improve their efficiency and to better understand their customers. This enables the company so that they can deliver improved and enhanced customer services and accelerate the overall decision-making process too.
Let us discuss the IoT benefits for transportation.
Transportation is the second largest industry for the investors of IoT. Among overall investment, a small portion of this goes to fleet management and monitoring. IoT has changed transportation or trucking industry rapidly. Here, the reason behind this is connectivity enhancement and mobile technology as well. Today gadgets are being used by everyone that makes the work more efficient and carry out many vital roles and important operations. IoT has made trucking and road safety system quite easier, even fleet management also has become quite organized and managed post involvement of IoT.
In every country, most of the freight management is being done by trucks and in the US truck transportation is a major part of the economy. Due to IoT involvement even autonomous trucks will also become reality.