Method and system for monitoring the integrity of freight containers

US9828174B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Airbus Defence and Space GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Busch · Oberhaching, DE
• Klaus Hornbostel · Bremen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 15, 2012
• Grant date: Nov 28, 2017
• Expiry date: May 20, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08B25/10
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for monitoring the integrity of a freight container along a transport route, the container having a sensor monitoring the container integrity, wherein the sensing of an event violating the container integrity is followed by event data representing the integrity violation being transmitted to an analysis center, wherein the event data is rated using predetermined criteria in respect of either a sanctioned or an unsanctioned integrity violation, and wherein opening or closing of the container is rated as a sanctioned integrity violation if an electronic authorization code representing the sanction is sent to the analysis center for the event data representing this integrity violation. Different types of opening and/or closing operations are distinguished by using authorization codes from different function groups, and the analysis center uses the type of function code to determine what type of opening operation and/or closing operation has taken, or is meant to take, place.