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5Are Sensize trackers durable enough for harsh environments?
Yes. Sensize trackers are designed to withstand demanding supply chain conditions including impacts, weather exposure and repeated use.
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5Can asset tracking help reduce carbon footprint?
Yes. By improving efficiency and minimizing losses and redundancies, asset tracking contributes to more sustainable logistics operations.
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5Can asset tracking help reduce reusable packaging losses?
Yes. Asset tracking enables businesses to monitor reusable assets as they move through the supply chain, helping identify loss hotspots, improve recovery rates and reduce unnecessary replacement costs. Better visibility also supports more efficient inventory management and operational planning.
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5Can I customize alerts and notifications?
Absolutely, users can set up alerts for events such as asset movement, delays, temperature breaches or unexpected stops, ensuring proactive management of operations.
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5Can Sensize help with regulatory compliance?
Yes. For industries like food, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, Sensize provides traceability and monitoring that support compliance with relevant regulations.
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5Can Sensize integrate with our existing systems such as ERP, WMS and TMS?
Yes. Sensize can integrate with existing business systems through APIs, enabling seamless data flow into ERP, warehouse management and transport systems.
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5Can trackers be reused across multiple shipments or assets?
Of course, Sensize trackers are designed for reuse, making them ideal for circular supply chains, returnable transport items and reusable packaging systems.
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5Can we scale the solution as our business grows?
Absolutely. Sensize systems are designed to scale, allowing you to add more trackers and expand coverage as needed.
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5Does PPWR apply to businesses outside the EU?
Yes. Businesses based outside the EU may still need to comply with PPWR if they place packaged products on the European market. Exporters should review the regulation carefully to understand their responsibilities.
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5How can businesses prepare for PPWR?
Preparation starts with understanding how packaging moves through your supply chain. Businesses should review existing packaging processes, identify gaps in asset visibility, assess reporting capabilities and consider how reusable packaging will be monitored over its lifecycle. Investing in better asset tracking and supply chain visibility now can make future compliance significantly easier.
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5How do Sensize trackers reduce overall costs?
By improving asset utilization, reducing loss, enabling reuse and optimizing logistics processes, Sensize helps businesses lower operational costs over time.
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5How does asset tracking help a business stay compliant with regulations?
By enabling the efficient and sustainable use of reusable packaging, Sensize asset tracking helps companies stay compliant with the EU’s PPWR regulation, which makes producers responsible for recycling their packaging at the end of use.
In the US, businesses must monitor the temperature of food. This is achievable at the crate/box level with Sensize tracking.
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5How does asset tracking help a business stay sustainable?
When companies invest in high-quality reusable assets, they must have a way of ensuring they stay within the supply chain and return to them to be reused.
Otherwise, they are simply not reusable!
Tracking solves this problem, allowing customers to know where their containers are so they can collect and reuse them at the end of each cycle.
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5How does Sensize support cold chain logistics?
Sensize trackers help maintain product integrity by monitoring temperature and location throughout transit, reducing spoilage and supporting compliance with regulations.
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5How does Sensize support PPWR compliance?
Sensize helps businesses improve visibility across reusable packaging networks through its Parent/Child asset tracking technology.
By providing near-real-time insights into asset location, movement, utilization and return cycles, the platform helps businesses reduce losses, improve operational efficiency and build the data needed to support PPWR compliance.
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5How does Sensize support sustainability goals?
Sensize enables reuse of assets and packaging, reduces waste and improves supply chain efficiency. Better visibility also helps lower emissions by optimizing routes and reducing unnecessary shipments.
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5How does the Sensize platform provide visibility?
Sensize offers a centralized portal where users can monitor assets in real time, analyze historical data and generate reports. This allows businesses to make faster data–driven decisions.
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5How easy is it to implement Sensize within an existing supply chain?
Our implementation process is designed to be straightforward. Sensize provides support during onboarding, including hardware setup, platform configuration and integration with existing systems where required.
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5How is asset tracking evolving in the future?
Asset tracking is becoming more integrated, automated and data driven. Future developments will focus on predictive insights, AI driven optimization and deeper supply chain transparency.
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5How long do Sensize trackers last?
Sensize trackers are engineered for long-term use, with battery life and durability designed to support extended deployments. 5-10 years is realistic lifetime.
Longevity depends on usage frequency, reporting intervals and environmental conditions, but they are built to outperform typical short life alternatives.
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5How quickly can we start seeing value after deployment?
Many customers begin seeing measurable improvements such as reduced asset loss and improved visibility within weeks of deployment, depending on scale and use case.
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5Is PPWR replacing the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive?
Yes. PPWR replaces the previous Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD). Unlike a directive, which requires each EU Member State to create its own national legislation, a regulation applies directly across all Member States, creating a more consistent set of packaging rules throughout the EU.
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5Is Sensize suitable for last mile delivery tracking?
Yes, Sensize provides real time visibility into delivery operations, helping improve efficiency, reduce losses and enhance customer experience.
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5Is Sensize suitable for small businesses as well as large enterprises?
Yes. Sensize solutions are scalable and can be tailored to suit both smaller operations and global supply chains.
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5Is the data collected by Sensize secure?
Yes. Sensize uses secure data transmission and storage practices to ensure customer data is protected at all times.
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5What are returnable transport items (RTIs)?
Returnable transport items (RTIs) are reusable assets used to transport goods throughout the supply chain. Common examples include pallets, plastic crates, totes, roll cages, reusable containers and bins designed for repeated use rather than disposal after a single journey.
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5What are the business benefits of preparing for PPWR early?
Businesses that prepare early can do more than simply meet regulatory requirements. Improved packaging visibility can help reduce losses, increase asset utilization, lower replacement costs, improve sustainability reporting and create more efficient, resilient supply chains.
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5What are the main assets that Sensize can track?
Our Sensize trackers are used on reusable containers such as pallets, boxes, beer crates, plastic crates and roll cages.
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5What are the reusable packaging requirements under PPWR?
PPWR introduces measures to encourage greater use of reusable packaging and reduce reliance on single-use packaging in certain sectors. Businesses using reusable packaging systems will need to demonstrate that those systems operate effectively and support the regulation’s sustainability objectives.
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5What does Sensize do?
In short, Sensize works with container pooling businesses, post and parcel companies, retailers and other organizations to help them see where their reusable assets are in the supply chain.
Using our bespoke Sensize Tracking System, users can gain full visibility and easily access valuable location and temperature data, helping them reduce leakage, cut costs and streamline their supply chains.
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5What is asset tracking and how does it work?
Asset tracking uses smart devices attached to physical items to monitor their location, movement and condition in real time.
Sensize trackers transmit data via cellular , WiFi and Bluetooth networks to a central platform, giving businesses full visibility of their assets across the supply chain.
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5What is reusable asset tracking?
Reusable asset tracking uses technologies such as IoT sensors, Bluetooth and cellular connectivity to monitor the location and movement of reusable packaging and returnable assets.
This helps businesses gain near-real-time visibility into their packaging networks and optimize asset performance.
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5What is the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)?
The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is an EU regulation designed to reduce packaging waste, increase the use of reusable and recyclable packaging, and support the transition to a circular economy. It introduces new rules covering packaging design, reuse, recyclability, labeling and reporting requirements for businesses placing packaging on the EU market.
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5What kind of data can Sensize trackers provide?
Depending on the tracker type, Sensize can provide location data, movement history, temperature and other environmental insights critical for supply chain monitoring.
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5What kind of support does Sensize provide?
Sensize offers ongoing customer support from onboarding through to optimization, ensuring clients get maximum value from their investment.
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5What makes Sensize different from other asset tracking providers?
Sensize focuses on durable, reusable trackers combined with a user-friendly platform and strong supply chain expertise. The emphasis is on long term value rather than short term tracking. Our parent/child network architecture that allows low cost BLE tags to work like fully fledged GPS tracker, is unique.
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5What makes Sensize trackers different from the rest?
The key difference is that we don’t just use one type of tracker. Many tracking systems use one type of tracker that is added to all assets.
Our system consists of Parent trackers and Child trackers. Parent trackers are placed on around 1% of the assets in a fleet and Child trackers on the remaining assets.
This reduces the cost of tracking and no infrastructure is required.
At Sensize, we also offer trackers of varying sizes and shapes for different assets, ensuring each one is most suitable for its use case.
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5When does PPWR come into effect?
The PPWR entered into force on August 12, 2026, although some requirements will be phased in over time. Businesses should seek to understand how the regulation affects their packaging, supply chains and reporting obligations.
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5Which industries benefit most from Sensize solutions?
Sensize supports a wide range of industries including logistics, container pooling, automotive, cold chain, fresh produce, healthcare, manufacturing and reusable packaging systems.
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5Who does PPWR apply to?
PPWR applies to any business that places packaging or packaged goods on the EU market. This includes manufacturers, retailers, distributors, logistics providers, e-commerce businesses, packaging producers, pooling providers and importers. If your products are sold within the EU, the regulation is likely to affect your business.
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5Why is reusable packaging tracking important for PPWR compliance?
As reusable packaging becomes more common, businesses need accurate information about where assets are, how often they are reused and where losses occur. Reusable packaging tracking provides the visibility needed to manage assets efficiently, improve recovery rates and support compliance reporting.
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5Why is supply chain visibility important under PPWR?
Supply chain visibility allows businesses to monitor the movement and performance of reusable packaging throughout its lifecycle with visible data. Better visibility helps identify bottlenecks, reduce asset losses, improve utilization and provide evidence that reusable packaging systems are operating effectively.
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5Why should businesses invest in asset tracking now?
Without visibility, inefficiencies and losses go unnoticed. Asset tracking provides immediate insight and long-term competitive advantage in an increasingly complex and regulated supply chain environment.
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5Why should I use asset tracking across my supply chain?
If you’re not using asset tracking, you’re missing out on valuable insights into how your assets are used.
When we start working with new customers, it almost always turns out that their assets are being used in ways they don’t expect, such as being taken to locations they are unaware of, held for lengthy periods of time in certain locations or being sold on the second-hand market.
Tracking allows for full visibility of these potential challenges and provides customers with the data they need to make informed changes.