The Future of Logistics Tech: Track & Trace
“Track (verb) — Follow the trail or movements of (someone or something), typically in order to find them or note their course.”
Oxford English Dictionary“Trace (verb) — Find or discover by investigation.”
Oxford English Dictionary
For most of us, it has become quite normal to be able to track a package that we ordered on the Internet. After all, we have developed a lifestyle where it has become ‘vital’ to receive anything as quickly as possible and to have as much information as possible at any point in time. For that purpose, we do not only track the items we ordered on Amazon, but also vehicles, animals, and even ourselves.
While we started using navigation-based services, such as Google Maps or Uber, more frequently in the past decade, we have made one term synonymous with tracking in general — at least in popular language. This term — or technology — is GPS, the Global Positioning System, which was developed by the United States Department of Defense (DOD) in cooperation with various other organizations from the 1970s to the 1990s. Just like many other inventions, GPS was first developed for military purposes and is now also used for civilian activities.
