SolarLive: Long Lasting Solar-Powered Tracking
Founded in 2015, Hanhaa is a leading British internet-of-things innovator and private LTE/5G network supplier. Over the past 6 years, Hanhaa has become a key player within the logistics industry providing the world’s leading 3PLs and freight forwarders with the technology to achieve supply chain visibility and operational efficiency.
Logistics and transportation companies are constantly looking for ways to improve internal processes and increase profitability. In an effort to meet the evolving needs of our customers and to solve the issues they face, the team at Hanhaa created SolarLive, the solution to long lasting solar-powered tracking.
SolarLive has been specifically designed with shipping containers in mind. It’s built for flexibility, longevity and extreme robustness on all kinds of non-power-supplied assets.
Why SolarLive and Why Now?
SolarLive was born to meet our customer’s logistic challenges whilst also inventing a new solution to tackle the global issues that businesses the world over have endured in 2020/2021 and continue to experience now.
Global Restrictions
Global restrictions as a result of Covid-19 saw the industry being greatly affected when it came to the transportation of cargo, availability of containers and goods production.
National lockdowns have seen a customer shift from spending on services to commodities. With the shift to e-commerce in both B2B and retail sectors, supply chains have graduated from a second rung in the strategic hierarchy of business planning to becoming a backbone around which all strategic decisions by firms are now based.
These changes in shopping patterns triggered by the pandemic has led to increased import demand for manufactured consumer goods, a large part of which is moved in shipping containers.
The global shortage of shipping containers has highlighted the need to know where containers are located at any given moment further.
Consumer Demands
Global opinion on freight tracking has significantly developed over the course of past years. Earlier, simple methods such as track-and-trace were considered to be sufficient to get insights.
Manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers and other shippers now require full visibility into freight status, condition and location. Business owners expect to access a single-point, comprehensive information dashboard including arrival and departure time, pick-up and destination locations, in-transit updates with a real-time concrete GPS-enabled system. 100% visibility has become a core service offering and an important metric evaluated by shippers when choosing service providers.
Late Shipments = Expensive Consequences
A late shipment can have an unexpected ripple effect on the entire supply chain process. For example, a factory might have to halt or increase its production or a docking business might have to make its onsite employees work overtime for when the shipment finally arrives. Situations such as this can be avoided if there is a container monitoring solution in place that can provide timely updates on freight movement.
Sustainability of Battery
Battery life is the chink in the armour of the fleet tracking industry.
Long battery life is imperative because most companies do not have the time to change the power source on a GPS tracker frequently. It’s not only a time-consuming process in case of a large fleet but also difficult to keep a tab on.
New solar technology is more efficient, particularly when it comes to generating more power with reduced sun exposure.
Today’s rechargeable batteries can often have the same lifetime as their associated assets, bringing significant cost savings to customers who no longer have to worry about battery replacements. Operational visibility also improves as blind spots and service interruptions due to depleted batteries disappear.
SolarLive: The One and Only Solution for Long Distance Tracking
Hanhaa’s cargo tracking and monitoring device, ParceLive, has and continues to provide our worldwide customer base with unrivalled supply chain visibility. Couple this with ParceLive’s telematics and blockchain integration.
A proportion of our customers ship high value and temperature sensitive goods all across the world, meaning that journeys can last up to 6 months and longer before they have the chance to get in contact with the container holding their cargo.
And thus, SolarLive was born.
SolarLive is the ideal solution for containers, trailers, or assets in remote locations and harsh conditions where no other recharging facilities exist.
Not only this, but all SolarLive users have access to our telematics platform enabling geofencing, automated reporting and more. It’s never been so easy to obtain improved fleet management, greater control and enhanced reporting abilities with a container monitoring device.
By using sustainable energy like solar, we take great pride in providing practical innovations that not only help clients make smarter decisions but also empower them to limit their carbon footprints.
We think so.