Chorus
Radically improving how we make, move, and manage the world’s goods
Chorus is developing a suite of orchestration tools that track how goods are moved and used in real-time to improve efficiency and reduce waste. The team is interested in working with customers across a range of industries. If you are interested in collaborating, please get in touch.
The Challenge
Despite trillions of dollars worth of goods moving through the world’s supply chains each year, many businesses today still lack the tools they need to see where their goods are in real time. What's more, critical information about these things, like their precise location or temperature, either simply doesn’t exist, is incomplete or is inaccessible to the people who need it.
This lack of visibility leads to staggering amounts of waste and inefficiency. Each year, 20 cents of every dollar spent on manufacturing is wasted, $50 billion worth of cargo is lost and 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted or lost while more than 800 million people go hungry.
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What If Every Object Had a Voice?
Project Chorus started when a team of scientists, engineers and product managers came together to explore ways to tackle waste and inefficiencies in our global supply chain and food systems.
Some of the team’s early questions included: What if every pallet, box and item had a voice? What if perishable objects like food or medicines could alert us if they are too hot or too cold, or how much shelf life they have left? How might we give businesses predictive, real-time insights they need to prevent unnecessary waste or delays? What if we could match supply and demand in a dynamic way?
Working closely with partners around the world, the team focused on creating new ways to deliver real-time insights into the exact location, condition and usage of physical goods. Together they developed new sensors, software, and machine learning tools.
The Chorus Platform
The Chorus platform is a suite of tools that give businesses key information about their goods in real time. The system has four elements: a suite of sensors for tagging individual goods, readers (The Chorus Reader) for monitoring the movement of those goods, AI-powered analysis to derive insights from this data, and a customer dashboard to see everything at a glance.
Chorus customers are using the system to track things like hospital inventory, to monitor vaccines that need to be kept at a stable temperature while in transit, and to see the exact location of critical shipments.
General Manager
Suresh is a serial entrepreneur and inventor who holds multiple U.S. and international patents. He has scaled successful businesses in the pharmaceutical, energy, and medical device industries. He began his career at Emerson Electric Corporation, where he built the Ovation Distributed Control System. Before joining X, Suresh was president of PharMerica Corporation.
