"Sub-Saharan logistics sector gets a boost with floLIVE's latest IoT connectivity offering"
floLIVE, a global IoT connectivity solutions provider, has launched a new offering designed to revolutionize transportation and logistics monitoring in Sub-Saharan Africa. The service, available through select partners serving the transportation industry, aims to improve the cost effectiveness and physical security of freight transportation within the region.
High-Bandwidth Connectivity and Cost-Effectiveness
The floLIVE cross-border service offers a high-bandwidth cellular connectivity package priced about 70% lower than conventional roaming services. This makes it more cost-effective for logistics operators, while still supporting video telematics, network infrastructure, and fleet safety applications.
Seamless Cross-Border Coverage
The service provides seamless connectivity throughout major business corridors, addressing issues like network dead zones and inconsistent coverage. This ensures predictable and affordable connectivity for transportation companies, enabling them to scale video surveillance, track cargo in real time, and ensure uninterrupted fleet communications.
Operational Benefits
The solution enables logistics operators to enhance security and safety in their operations through the scaling of video surveillance. Real-time tracking allows for improved operational efficiency and reliability, while ensuring uninterrupted fleet communications is vital for timely and safe operations.
Economic Impact
The floLIVE cross-border service normalizes the incredibly disparate data subscription rates among carriers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This leads to greater performance and profitability for logistics companies, as it addresses service gaps and provides resilient operations.
Multi-Network Resilience and Partnerships
The service utilizes floLIVE's intelligent multi-IMSI technology, allowing a single SIM to switch between identities tied to different mobile network operators. This provides multi-network resilience, ensuring that the service remains available even in areas with limited network coverage.
The new offering is the result of a partnership between floLIVE and CommsCloud. According to Peter Walsh, CEO of CommsCloud, the partnership delivers resilient, always-on connectivity demanded by logistics and transport operators in Sub-Saharan Africa. Peter Walsh considers the floLIVE cross-border service a regional solution with 21st-century capability, purpose-built for African businesses ready to scale.
Availability
Transportation companies can share the subscribed data plan across multiple connected cameras for monitoring vehicle, driver activity, and cargo. Customers have a single contract with floLIVE or its authorized regional partner for seamless connectivity to the best available local mobile network.
In conclusion, the floLIVE cross-border service addresses service gaps and helps transportation, supply chain, and logistics companies maintain secure and reliable operations in Sub-Saharan Africa. By offering high-bandwidth connectivity, cost-effectiveness, seamless cross-border coverage, and operational benefits, the service is poised to revolutionize the monitoring of transportation and logistics in the region.
- The floLIVE cross-border service's high-bandwidth cellular connectivity, priced about 70% lower than conventional roaming services, enables logistics operators to support video telematics, network infrastructure, and fleet safety applications, thereby improving operational efficiency and reliability.
- The service provides seamless connectivity throughout major business corridors, ensuring predictable and affordable connectivity for transportation companies, which in turn facilitates video surveillance, real-time tracking of cargo, and uninterrupted fleet communications.
- The partnership between floLIVE and CommsCloud delivers resilient, always-on connectivity demanded by logistics and transport operators in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering a regional solution with 21st-century capability, purpose-built for African businesses.
