Hardware, IoT & edge integration

Many transportation disputes come down to physical evidence: when a trailer arrived, what a pallet weighed, whether a seal was intact, what temperature a reefer held. Today that evidence is often re-typed from separate devices. A Rust edge runtime could capture it close to the source with the same event schema the TMS uses.

Candidate devices include barcode and RFID scanners at docks, floor scales, door and yard sensors, temperature loggers and ELD or telematics gateways. Each would publish provenance-tagged events into the shipment timeline. All of this is future research; no device integration exists.