WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
The Transport Industry’s migration to new Communications Technology
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Following the unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many future investment strategies for upgrading communications technology in the transport sector will have had their brakes put on.
ll across the globe we are witnessing a gradual though cautious reopening of the economy when individuals will once again be able to travel in safety will also be a time to consolidate, not to stand still. With such a difficult balancing act between reduced budgets and value added critical services through technology, how can transport companies best manage their communications upgrade? In this OpEd, Nicolas Hauswald, CEO, ETELM explores some of the ways in which it is possible to adopt OPEX rather than CAPEX solutions to solve this conundrum. Following the unprecedented
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economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, many future investment strategies for upgrading communications technology in the transport and logistics sector will have had their brakes put on.
Economies opening up However, the reopening of the economy when individuals will once again be able to travel in safety, and when global supply chains can get back up and running to pre-pandemic levels, will be a time to consolidate, not stand still. With such a difficult balancing act between reduced budgets and implementing value added critical services through technology, how can transport and logistics companies best
manage their communications upgrade? While demands for next generation, ever-faster, ever-higher bandwidth LTE technologies will continue to abound throughout industry, it is Private Mobile Radio (PMR) technologies such as TETRA that remain the choice of reason for not only transport, but also all critical national infrastructures (energy, utilities, oil & gas), emergency services, government agencies and public safety. In this article we’ll take a look at why TETRA is still one of the most reliable cornerstones of critical communications technology, and the advantages that this offers to planned upgrades by enabling a more gradual phase-in of advanced broadband services as part of a hybrid solution.
