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Fix late-event handling in Flink so duplicate alerts drop below 0.5%

You’re the software engineer. Your team is in the room. Printed Oct 14, 2026.

Late sensor events are trading location continuity for duplicate alerts.

The location pipeline must preserve a believable equipment path while fleet managers need timely arrival alerts.

Who you’d be doing this for

“Dispatch called twice about the same trailer arriving, and it never left the yard.”

Yara Ibrahim · Fleet Manager

Runs a regional commercial fleet that relies on geofence alerts to coordinate trailer pickups.

What is at stake

Duplicate geofence alerts reached 7.0% after a stream-processing deployment. You must weigh a fast event-time correction against an Embedded payload change that affects device data contracts.

Why it isn’t already fixed

Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.

  • fast alert recovery vs durable timestamp handling
  • location continuity vs timely geofence events
  • cloud correction vs device contract stability

Why Motive

Asset Gateways and BLE sensors feed the equipment visibility that fleet managers use to locate trailers, reefers, and small assets.

Written with these in mind

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