NGOs and humanitarian organisations
Vehicles and consignments moving through multiple locations and custodians, often to places with patchy coverage.
Humanitarian logistics shares the accountability problem of commercial cargo and adds a harder operating environment: longer distances, weaker network coverage and more handovers.
Cargo seals, tracking and radios all apply. Coverage is the honest constraint to plan around — a connected device cannot report from where there is no service, whatever is fitted. This page is a starting point; the relevant solutions are below.
Solutions
What applies to this sector.
Vehicle tracking
Live GPS tracking, route playback, trip reports and geofence alerts for one vehicle or a fleet — with remote immobilisation where it is configured, and anti-jamming options where the risk warrants them.
Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS)
Cargo and container security that adds electronic access control, GPS tracking, tamper detection and event recording to a container, so its location and security status are visible for the whole journey rather than only on arrival.
Radio communication — PTT and PoC
Two-way radio for teams that need to talk instantly: short-range radios for a site, and PoC radios that carry voice over 4G so a driver in Mombasa and a dispatcher in Nairobi share one channel.
Tell us how you operate.
Sectors differ less than operations within them. Tell us the vehicles, the routes and what has gone wrong before, and we will tell you what is worth fitting.