Comments on: Internet of Things Reaches Into the Trucking Business https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/internet-of-things-reaches-into-the-trucking-business/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 14 May 2026 06:12:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: A Boy and His Dog https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/internet-of-things-reaches-into-the-trucking-business/comment-page-1/#comment-2273725 A Boy and His Dog Fri, 08 May 2015 05:57:58 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37970#comment-2273725 It turns out my speculation above is already starting to be surpassed by reality.

]]> By: A Boy and His Dog https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/internet-of-things-reaches-into-the-trucking-business/comment-page-1/#comment-2272472 A Boy and His Dog Thu, 07 May 2015 01:37:52 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37970#comment-2272472 It’s only a matter of time before all trucking is automated anyway. With research into self-driving cars continuing (I think Nissan has one out now that can parallel park automatically, and Google is working on automating the roads), living drivers will end up being an actual detriment at some point. If the highway drive can be automated you really only need a driver at the beginning and end of the journey to help with getting the truck hitched up. And that one parking driver can handle a lot more shipments. Efficiency gains abound.

]]> By: David Foster https://www.isegoria.net/2015/05/internet-of-things-reaches-into-the-trucking-business/comment-page-1/#comment-2271887 David Foster Wed, 06 May 2015 16:07:01 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=37970#comment-2271887 Rail cars have been electronically tracked since the early 1990s.

Railroads have also been controlling switches and signals remotely, and observing train progress via track occupancy remotely, since the early 1930s.

The government has been collecting stream-height data and aviation weather data and making it available on the Internet for quite a few years.

A lot of the gee-whiz stuff about the “Internet of Things” fails to consider just how far the remote monitoring and control of physical devices has already progressed.

I think some of the greatest potential is for very cheap sensors that can be added to common machines to predict failure before it happens. For example, I recently had a basement sump pump fail, with unpleasant results. It would have ben nice if the incipient failure had been pre-announced.

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