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4 min read•Last updatedUpdated Oct 7, 2022
INTRODUCING ABLY ASSET TRACKING - PUBLIC BETA NOW AVAILABLE
Written by
Kieran Kilbride-Singh
Over the past 18 months, as we’ve sheltered at home, the demand for global and
last mile logistics, food delivery applications, and urban mobility services has
skyrocketed. Realtime location data underpins much of the core value these
applications and services provide. It enables delightful user experiences that
make hungry end-users happy. Or it can drive back-end optimizations that make
logistics operations more efficient and effective - for example, by improving
vehicle utilization rate or minimizing time between pickups and deliveries. But
it isn’t easy to pull off.
To help these fast-moving companies focus on what they do best rather than
complex cloud infrastructure and mapping specialisms, Ably is launching an asset
tracking product in partnership with Mapbox. Ably Asset Tracking is simply the
best and fastest way to build delivery apps and logistics services that rely on
realtime location data to track any asset.
Before and after Ably Asset Tracking
THE PROBLEMS WITH ASSET TRACKING TODAY
Today, to provide a globally-available application underpinned by realtime
location data is a complicated affair. It requires building complex distributed
systems across multiple cloud services and then testing, managing, and scaling
that infrastructure so that it performs to expected standards. This is
resource-heavy, time consuming, and downright difficult.
The difficulties begin right from the get go when collecting location data on an
end-user device to send back to the cloud for processing:
* Raw device location data is noisy and quality can be low. This requires
additional processing for location data to be truly useful. You’ll need to
build additional logic that sits within your cloud infrastructure that does
mapmatching on location data from the device sensor. When the data is matched
it can be animated smoothly along the map - with no jumping, skipping, or
spinning.
* Realtime location data requires a persistent connection between device and
cloud for low latency, which can negatively impact battery life. A persistent
connection is battery-intensive at the best of times. For a driver out on the
road for upwards of 8 hours a day battery life is a precious commodity, so
your solution needs to be battery-efficient. Unreliable mobile network
conditions make this particularly difficult to engineer for.
* Synchronizing and managing application and device state adds additional
engineering complexity. Device location data - or the application state -
needs to be persisted in realtime to the cloud and then any changes
synchronized to subscribed devices. This introduces various engineering
complexities including handling state during reconnections and managing state
conflict across clients and regions.
A typical cloud architecture using AWS services that achieves realtime asset
tracking
HOW ABLY ASSET TRACKING HELPS
Ably Asset Tracking solves all of the problems outlined above by providing a
serverless service that is optimized for asset tracking across last mile
logistics, food delivery applications, and urban mobility services.
Ably Asset Tracking simplifies cloud architecture so Dev & Ops teams can refocus
on their core product engineering
Location data is cleaned right on the sensor device using the latest technology
from Mapbox, with no additional processing required. All realtime networking,
connection, and cloud infrastructure problems are handled by Ably’s
battle-tested realtime communication platform. There’s no infrastructure to
provision or manage - just simple yet powerful and versatile SDKs that let you
quickly add realtime asset tracking with a few lines of code.
On the mapping side of things, Mapbox’s Enhanced Location Engine provides high
position accuracy, with low latency, so that the driver’s location on the map
stays in sync with the vehicle’s actual location. It does so by continually
filtering and processing GPS signals and even extrapolates a driver’s current
location when GPS signals are unavailable using dead reckoning algorithms, to
avoid data interruptions.
For all realtime networking, out-of-the-box you benefit from Ably’s massively
scalable global edge network, unique data ordering and delivery guarantees that
ensure seamless end-user experiences, legitimate 99.999% uptime SLAs thanks to
our fault tolerant infrastructure, and integrations and plugins that make it
easy to connect Ably Asset Tracking to any existing infrastructure or systems
you’re already building with.
If you’re interested in learning more about why we’ve built Ably Asset Tracking
and partnered with Mapbox to do so, check out Mapbox’s asset tracking blog post.
GET STARTED WITH ABLY ASSET TRACKING
As of today we’re releasing Ably Asset Tracking in a public beta. Right now we
have SDKs targeting Android, iOS, and web. To get started sign up for your free
Ably account and head over to GitHub:
* iOS SDK
* Android SDK
* JavaScript SDK
If you want to learn more about Ably Asset Tracking or have any questions, read
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