Sigfox Partners Austrian Post to Help the Company Gain Full Visibility of Roller Containers
November 19, 2020 at 03:30 am EST
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Sigfox announced its partnership with Austrian Post, the leading logistics and postal service provider in Austria, to help the company gain full visibility of roller containers across its 2,000 sites and also customer sites. Austrian Post has set a target to track its entire roller container inventory by 2021. The organization uses two container types, for letters and parcels, each worth a few hundred euros. Buffering only one roller container more than necessary in its 2,000 sites, has a drastic impact in investment of roller containers. Austrian Post was introduced to Sigfox by DHL, a company that already benefits from tracking technology. Across 35 DHL parcel centers throughout Germany and adjacent countries, over 250,000 roll cages are fitted with Sigfox smart trackers, from Alps Alpine, providing exact information about location and movement. The Austrian Post implementation started with 500 roller containers, growing to 5,000 trackers by end of November and 30,000 by the end of 2020. The remaining roller containers will be fitted with trackers in 2021. The ramp up coincides with the high season for postal services from September to January, when roller containers are in demand. Through proactive management of its inventory, Austrian Post will be in a position to optimize roller container usage at a critical part of the year. Sigfox’s Austrian network operator Heliot has been working closely with Austrian Post. Heliot contracted the Sigfox solution, in collaboration with Alps Alpine, providing with low-energy and low-cost trackers connected to the Sigfox global 0G network. Heliot owns and operates the Sigfox 0G network in Austria, with a target of nearing full coverage by the end of 2023. significant benefit for Austrian Post is in the fact that the network coverage reaches well beyond Austrian borders, as many of the roller containers travel to Germany, the Czech Republic and other European countries. Supported by the Sigfox network, Austrian Post will be able to track roller containers on an international basis.
Osterreichische Post AG specializes in mail collection, routing, and delivery services. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by activity as follows:
- mail collection and delivery (44.4%; No. 1 in Austria): letters, postcards, ads and publicity materials, newspapers, etc. The group also offers stamps telecommunication and financial products and services (savings accounts, insurance, loans, etc.);
- parcel delivery (44.1%): operating in Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Croatia. Osterreichische Post AG also offers logistical services and express shipping;
- other (0.1%).
The remaining sales (11.4%) are from the retail banking activity.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Austria (81.2%), Turkey (10%), Germany (2.1%) and other (6.7%).