Cargo Tracker

Seeking Pilot 2019
Cargo Tracker

Sensitive shipments — medical equipment, wine, vaccines, precision instruments — can be damaged or tampered with between sender and recipient with no one knowing until the crate is opened. Existing tracking solutions tell you where cargo is; they rarely tell you what happened to it en route.

Cargo Tracker is two things that work together.

The device. A compact, autonomous black box that rides inside the shipment. It logs temperature, humidity, pressure, and impact events to internal flash with no network dependency — it stores everything and uploads when connectivity is available. Unlike most single-use monitoring labels, it’s reusable. Smaller than most competitors. An app retrieves the log via Bluetooth and pushes it to the cloud; the recipient can scan the device on arrival to get a full chain-of-custody record.

The platform. A web dashboard that aggregates status events from carrier APIs (rail, regional trucking, last-mile) alongside the device telemetry. Coordinators see current location, ETA, customs clearance status, delay flags, and environmental condition graphs in one view — without logging into five separate portals. Route templates and notification rules cover customs holds, ETA deviations, POD confirmations, and condition threshold breaches.

The platform backend uses NestJS with a carrier-adapter pattern so new logistics providers integrate in days. Alerts route to email, Telegram, and webhook. The device prototype is at TRL 4; the platform is in active use.

What we're looking for

Looking for a logistics company to run a paid pilot.

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Stack

ESP32 NestJS Vue.js PostgreSQL Redis Docker BLE REST APIs