Nexxiot launches largest-ever deployment of IoT hardware devices in the ocean

By leading TradeTech and the digitalisation of cargo transportation, Nexxiot empowers global shipping companies and suppliers to harness the power of their data through proprietary, cutting-edge technology and integrated data solutions to ensure accountability, security, and efficiency.

Nexxiot’s Globehopper Edge transmits real-time location and temperature data, monitors container impacts, and can connect to other sensors via Bluetooth. To ensure the safety and security of crew, cargo and ships, the devices are designed and certified in accordance with the ATEX Product Directive for use in potentially flammable or explosive environments (Zone 2). The data is processed using the latest algorithms and Big Data analytics to create essential business intelligence on container fleet utilisation, critical events, and supply chain processes for all stakeholders across the value network.

The partnership with shipping company Hapag-Lloyd will represent the largest-ever deployment of IoT hardware devices to date. Nexxiot will have a significant share of the fleet from Hapag-Lloyd with IoT Technology. Hapag-Lloyd owns or leases a container stock of ~ 3 million TEU for transporting cargo. A TEU or Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit is an exact unit of measurement used to determine cargo capacity for container ships and terminals. This measurement is derived from the dimensions of a 20ft standardized shipping container. 

As part of Hapag-Lloyd LIVE, the shipping company will be the first carrier in the world to be able to monitor and analyse the location, movements, and status of its standard containers in real-time in the ocean and intermodal shipping space, which is shipping is the backbone of the global economy. Innovative sensor technology, such as that developed by Nexxiot and used by Hapag-Lloyd, is helping to make container transport a more resilient and transparent piece of the global supply chain puzzle. 

“This is the largest deployment of active hardware monitoring devices to date in the ocean and intermodal shipping space, with the potential to create a vastly more efficient and sustainable global supply chain,” said Stefan Kalmund, CEO of Nexxiot. “The location, status and associated processes of ‘dry’ containers on the high seas and during inland transportation are mostly untraceable today. TradeTech projects, such as those implemented by Hapag-Lloyd with Nexxiot as a system partner, change this paradigm.”

“Nexxiot as a system partner provides us with an important technological building block,” said Olaf Habert, Director of Container Applications at Hapag-Lloyd. “This allows us to detect delays earlier, automatically inform the affected customers and initiate countermeasures quickly. We are firmly convinced that not only our customers benefit from the new technology, but that this new approach will revolutionise the entire container shipping industry.”

(Press release/RAN)