Understanding Sensos Label Location Tracking

Real-time tracking provides end-to-end visibility of your shipment's location and condition, crucial for everyone involved in the supply chain. This transparency helps you manage shipment movement effectively, track production data automatically, and comply with regulations.

Supply chain visibility

Supply chains and logistics use location tracking to gain valuable information about their shipments' whereabouts at any given moment. This data is used for ongoing reports and critical alerts, including shock events, temperature breaches, and arrival at the destination.

Sensos Label Coverage

Sensos Labels provide location data using two layers of coverage: cellular and GPS.

Users can define the criticality of their shipments and locations, set the desired location tracking method, and manage battery life.

Cellular location

Unlike cellular triangulation, Sensos Label cellular location uses data from nearby devices to estimate the Label's geolocation. This method does not consume battery life.

The accuracy of cellular location depends on the cellular coverage in the area and the distribution of nearby cell towers. In denser urban areas, cellular location can provide an accuracy of up to 1 km.

Important Note: When cellular connectivity is unavailable, such as during flights or maritime transportation, critical events like shocks are still recorded with a timestamp but without a location.

GPS

If you need greater precision for critical events like arrival at a specific location, warehouse, or building, Sensos offers GPS location.

GPS location relies on satellite connectivity, meaning the Sensos Label needs a clear view of the sky. Operating inside a container or a closed truck can pose a challenge and result in partial or complete signal blockage.

• When the Label has a full connection, the location accuracy is 10 meters.
• When the connectivity is poor, the accuracy is up to 100 meters.
• When there's no GPS connectivity at all, the Label switches to cellular location.

User settings

To save battery life, Sensos users can choose to use cellular location only. Alternatively, users can enable continuous GPS tracking or set it to activate only for important events (e.g., shock, temperature). The Label can also be configured to activate GPS within a specific radius from the destination.

Important Note: In areas with known poor cellular connection, the Label will automatically turn on GPS.

GPS reporting consumes up to five times more battery than other methods.