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>Seems like something you could put a stop to very quickly with the use of some tracking technology & a medium-sized budget. yes, it's true, any office with a
by logicallee 10y ago
>Seems like something you could put a stop to very quickly with the use of some tracking technology & a medium-sized budget.
yes, it's true, any office with a handful of experienced engineers should be able to put together a GPS food tracker using a budget of only $100,000 and in just six months... in 1997.
Today, any hobbyist can assemble one for $100 in marked-up hobbyist parts and in an afternoon, or, if that's too much work, buy one for $30 that works out of the box.
- bluesign 10y agoOr put one cheap android phone, and track
- pavel_lishin 10y agoAnd a sim card. And a power supply. And remember to keep topping up that sim card.
- cauterized 10y agoOk, now what's the margin on a pallet of apples? What's the R&D cost that the tech firm has to recover? How about the costs involved in the labor to attach and recover the devices on every single pallet of apples that doesn't get stolen... or to track them, or the cost of the ongoing contract with the tech firm, or the tech firm's profit margin? And where are you going to put your GPS device such that the thieves won't immediately discard or disable it anyway?