Carrier, the world's leading provider of solutions for healthy, safe and sustainable construction and the cold chain, is in a unique position to address this challenge. Carrier's broad offering includes equipment for commercial transport and refrigeration as well as load monitoring, offering opportunities for unique insights and bespoke digital services. With proper refrigeration, 475 million tons of food lost every year could be saved (International Institute of Refrigeration).
The Lynx digital platform, co-developed by Carrier and AWS (Amazon Web Services), is designed to provide customers with greater flexibility, visibility and intelligence along the cold chain. AWS and Carrier plan to introduce features that deliver the right information at the right time, through proactive recommendations to reduce deterioration and increase sustainability and efficiency.
Some examples of what a smart, connected cold chain can do:
- Better match the offer of food producers with refrigerated trucks for transport to consumers.
- Provide more efficient routes, enabling transport companies to take high-quality food further, potentially to regions that have no access.
- Improving the use of the fleet, providing proactive alerts and providing advice to improve operations and reduce deterioration by improving the reliability and predictability of food transport and related transfers along the cold chain.
The Lynx digital platform uses a foundation of AWS IoT, machine learning, and analytics to provide customers with greater cold chain connectivity, visibility and intelligence. With a comprehensive view of load location, temperature conditions, and external events that could affect cold chain operations, Carrier can apply machine learning to identify potential problems that could affect food load and develop recommendations for improving results. «Carrier is committed to promoting a healthy, safe and sustainable cold chain. Through this collaboration with AWS, we are building on our experience to develop a powerful tool that offers Carrier customers greater flexibility, visibility and intelligence throughout the cold chain,” said David Appel, President, Carrier Refrigeration.
Carrier and AWS are addressing the complexity and fragmentation of the cold chain to provide supply chain customers with transparency, flexibility and insights. With these, customers will be able to reduce risk and provide food, medicine and vaccines when and where they are needed.