Spanish real-time location and telemetry company Witrac has integrated the LoRaWan protocol and Semtech’s LoRa 2.4GHz technology into its global track-and-trace platform.

This should provide users with full control and traceability of assets in the supply chain.

“Semtech’s LoRa devices have been instrumental in supporting Witrac’s mission to re-evolve and digitise Industry 4.0 through visibility, traceability, control and efficiency,” said Javier Ferrer, CEO of Witrac. “Our customers and their stakeholders have the ability to guarantee delivery times and maintain appropriate temperature conditions of fresh food transport inside refrigeration units throughout the entire cold chain by leveraging the long range, low power capabilities of LoRaWans and the global reach of LoRa 2.4GHz.”

A partnership of Boluda Corporación Marítima, a maritime services provider, has selected Witrac’s platform to monitor and ensure quality of cold chain transport in real time around the clock for Boluda’s Daily Canarias line, providing the citizens of the Canary Islands with the first daily transportation of goods from the peninsula.

Location and temperature status of fresh goods and medicines are tracked on seven container vessels traveling the maritime corridor linking the port of Cádiz to the island ports of Las Palmas and Tenerife. Tracking and monitoring continue uninterrupted while unloading goods from ships to land transport reefer containers that also use IoT controllers to keep food and medicines automatically within a pre-determined temperature range when traveling to the food retail and pharmaceutical industries.

“Our collaboration with Witrac replaces antiquated manual processes with sensors integrated with Semtech’s LoRa devices to provide customers with real-time temperature data to maintain a consistent temperature and help meet regulatory food safety requirements,” said Marc Pegulu, vice president of Semtech. “The ease of deployment, scalability and cost-savings capabilities of the LoRaWan protocol make it the LPWAN connectivity of choice for the smart supply chain and logistics IoT market.”

Witrac helps companies be more efficient and competitive thanks to technology that connects and gives visibility to the value chain of its clients. Able to identify, locate, measure and control wirelessly and in real time, any asset, anywhere, the firm fabricates its own hardware and software based on the IoT and AI technology. Its digitalisation and automation products combine multiple connectivity devices and protocols with a management platform to generate data and transform them into useful information and valuable insights.