FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: Breaking the bottlenecks with smart trailer technology
DETAILS: Customers are increasingly asking for their trailers to throw off data. Technology is catching up to that request.
SPEAKER: Deborah (Debbie) Sackman is the Senior Product Manager for the Fleets division of SkyBitz. She is interviewed by FreightWaves Editor at Large John Kingston
BIO: Deborah (Debbie) Sackman is the Senior Product Manager for the Fleets division of SkyBitz, a Telular Ametek brand, where she is responsible for driving strategic direction, product solution planning, program development, and sales and support enablement for SkyBitz’s software, services and hardware solutions. Prior to SkyBitz, Ms. Sackman worked for Savi Technology, and previous to that was Technical Director at the Air Force Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer. Her experience ranges from full lifecycle application development on small to large enterprise projects, to establishing and managing helpdesk operations, to technology assessment and insertion, to IT/business strategic planning and execution, to product line management and sales support.
KEY QUOTES FROM SACKMAN:
“The challenge was the technology really wasn’t ready to support this concept of a smart trailer. All of the sensors were talking over different protocols using different methods. That meant that any system that was going to collect this information had to talk a lot of different languages. Bluetooth Five technology has really changed that.”
“That set the stage for people like us to create a telematic product that forms the hub of that smart trailer technology.”
“After cargo, brakes and tires really come next for most carriers in terms of where they find the ROI from smart trailer technology.”