A Case Study to Explore IoT Readiness in Outbound Logistics

Most of the logistics companies are facing problems with tracking and tracing in their logistics networks that led to poor last-mile service quality. This problem can be solved by improving technology such as the Internet of Things (IoT). Midway through the second decade of the millennium, the rapid development of IoT has influenced the company’s outbound logistics operations such as last-mile delivery. Implementation of IoT will help courier companies to optimize their delivery process. Despite its popular perceived benefit in assisting last-mile delivery, IoT remains a new technology and its adoption rate is still low in Malaysia. Thus, the main purpose of this research is to explore the status of IoT readiness among logistics companies in Malaysia. Apart from that, this research also intends to propose the best practice for courier companies to implement IoT. The finding of this research will indicate the factors affecting the readiness of the organizations to adopt IoT and the best practice for the implementation of IoT for the last-mile of a parcel delivery service in Malaysia will be proposed. This research is carried out by making use of qualitative methods with a number of courier companies in Malaysia as case studies. The case study provided is related to a courier company in Malaysia. In the preliminary study phase, results show that IoT helps to improve productivity and enhance the efficiency of the company

The Digitalisation of African Agriculture Report 2018-2019

An inclusive, digitally-enabled agricultural transformation could help achieve meaningful livelihood improvements for Africa’s smallholder farmers and pastoralists. It could drive greater engagement in agriculture from women and youth and create employment opportunities along the value chain. At CTA we staked a claim on this power of digitalisation to more systematically transform agriculture early on. Digitalisation, focusing on not individual ICTs but the application of these technologies to entire value chains, is a theme that cuts across all of our work. In youth entrepreneurship, we are fostering a new breed of young ICT ‘agripreneurs’. In climate-smart agriculture multiple projects provide information that can help towards building resilience for smallholder farmers. And in women empowerment we are supporting digital platforms to drive greater inclusion for women entrepreneurs in agricultural value chains

Applications of Fog Computing in Video Streaming

The purpose of this paper is to show the viability of fog computing in the area of video streaming in vehicles. With the rise of autonomous vehicles, there needs to be a viable entertainment option for users. The cloud fails to address these options due to latency problems experienced during high internet traffic. To improve video streaming speeds, fog computing seems to be the best option. Fog computing brings the cloud closer to the user through the use of intermediary devices known as fog nodes. It does not attempt to replace the cloud but improve the cloud by allowing faster upload and download of information. This paper explores two algorithms that would work well with vehicles and video streaming. This is simulated using a Java application, and then graphically represented. The results showed that the simulation was an accurate model and that the best algorithm for request history maintenance was the variable model