Borderlands Mexico: Wiliot chatbot would like a word about food supply chain safety

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Wiliot chatbot would like a word about food supply chain safety; Maersk opens logistics warehouse in El Paso; Stotland Trucking expands operations in Texas; and Continental Tire plans $87M Fort Worth production facility.

Wiliot chatbot would like a word about food supply chain safety

With food imports in the U.S. expected to reach record totals in 2024, reducing the...

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Wiliot aims to help secure food supply chain using ambient IoT

Internet of Things start-up Wiliot recently launched a food -safety initiative that works to create transparent and traceable supply chains using ambient IoT technology.

Wiliot’s ambient IoT food- safety initiative — a partnership with iFoodDS and Trustwell — comes ahead of the Food and Drug Administration’s new Food Traceability Final Rule (known as FSMA 204), which begins enforcement in January 2026.

“[FSMA 204] is a challenging rule, because you’re spanning changes up and down the supply chain...

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Wiliot Version 2.0 amplifies IoT company’s sensor technology

Wiliot V2 builds on the company's Internet of Things offering

The Internet of Things –– essentially a system of interconnected tracking and sensing devices that provides data on goods moving through the supply chain –– has been built around places and spaces, using cameras and wall-mounted sensors.

Simply put, it’s too costly for most companies to attach sensors to the millions of goods flowing through their supply chains, meaning only high-value objects, like your refrigerator, typically get tagged.

Today’s IoT is an Internet of Expensive Things, but...

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