International. Carrier and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a multi-year agreement to jointly develop Lynx, Carrier's new digital platform, which will feature a series of tools to provide users globally with greater visibility, connectivity and intelligence throughout their cold chain operations, to improve the delivery of loads that require temperature control, such as food, medicine, and vaccines.
The Lynx platform will combine AWS's Internet of Things (Idc) automation and machine learning services with Carrier's monitoring and cooling solutions to extend its digital offering to manage temperature-controlled transportation and perishable storage.
The platform offers the possibility of end-to-end tracking, real-time alerts, automatic processes and predictive analytics that will help them deliver cargo more efficiently, in addition to reducing the cost of cold chain operations from the optimization of resources and the reduction of freight loss or deterioration.
By considering and leveraging Amazon Web Services IoT services to collect, integrate, organize, and analyze carrier's large base of refrigeration equipment and monitoring solutions, along with other sources of information such as traffic and weather reports, the Lynx platform will provide comprehensive cargo location information, temperature condition and external events that could impact the operation of the cold chain.
The information will be stored in a data pool integrated into the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), from where Carrier can use AWS machine learning services to identify potential points that could affect cargo transport, or also run sophisticated analyses to develop recommendations that improve results. For example, through the analysis of historical performance data, by connecting the equipment in real time to the Carrier cloud, Lynx could suggest proactive maintenance to maximize the availability of a specific part of the unit.
"The Lynx platform will help our customers make faster, data-driven decisions to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of their cold chains. This digital solution will increase connectivity along the cold chain, decreasing the delay in freight delivery, which is critical to global well-being and health, as well as reducing damage or loss and unexpected costs," said David Appel, president of Carrier Refrigeration.
