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Modern day cargo container ports form an essential part of any products supply chain, and a huge range of products pass may pass through several of these en route to market. Products range from waste paper, to refrigerated foodstuffs, to extremely valuable microprocessors, all packed into the same set of standardised containers for overseas shipping. The value of single containers may be as much as millions of dollars, and so protecting and monitoring these containers while in the relatively vulnerable environs of the port is paramount
Above: The Containers Project has the goal of achieving the monitoring of cargo containers through Wireless Networking.
Current container tracking technology relies on expensive differential GPS systems, which due to unreliability must be combined with Inertial Measurement Units. The Containers Project seeks to develop a low-cost alternative, which requires little infrastructural change
The Containers Project utilises the new generation of Tyndall Zigbee motes to communicate. The adaptive platform allows optional inclusion of container monitoring functions such as, shock/drop detection, illegal entry, and temperature control
Contact: Brendan O’Flynn – brendan.oflynn@tyndall.ie | webpage
Selected Publications:
- Dennis Laffey , Daniel Rogoz, Brendan O’Flynn, Fergus O’Reilly, John Buckley,& John Barton, “Containers – Innovative Low Cost Solutions for Cargo Tracking” Information Technology & Telecommunications Conference 2006, Institute of Technology, Carlow, October 25-26, 2006. Proc pp 187-188
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