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Electronic security system for monitoring and recording activity and data relating to cargo
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A tracking system for identifying contents of a container includes an electromagnetic identification apparatus that provides an electromagnetic signal indicative of container content data set; a writer for use in encoding the container signal onto the apparatus; a controller for receiving the encoded signal and for storing the signal in a master database storage apparatus; and a reader configured outside the container for communicating with the identification apparatus and for receiving an encoded signal therefrom and corresponding to the container contents data signal set as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
A tracking system for identifying contents of a container includes an electromagnetic identification apparatus that provides an electromagnetic signal indicative of a container content data set; a writer for use in encoding the container signal onto the apparatus; a controller for receiving the encoded signal and for storing the signal in a master database storage apparatus; and a reader configured outside the container for communicating with the electromagnetic identification apparatus and for receiving the encoded signal therefrom and corresponding to the container content data signal set. A system for tracking items in an assembly includes an apparatus for receiving electromagnetic identification tag signals; an apparatus for creating a first tier aggregate signature; an apparatus for storing the signature in a master database; and an apparatus for receiving modifying command signals for creating a second tier aggregate signature corresponding to a modified set of electromagnetic identification tags in an augmented assembly.read more
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Securing, monitoring and tracking shipping containers
Thomas R. Berger,Joseph E. Denny,David S. Robins,LaMonte Peter Koop,Edward Allen Payne,Robert W. Twitchell +5 more
TL;DR: A method of securing a container includes inserting, into a seal device at a container, an electronic bolt, reading, by the seal device, a serial number stored in the electronic bolt; communicating, from the sealed device, to a user application, insertion of the bolt; scanning, by a user via a handheld device, an identification of the sealing device; inputting, by user at the container via the handheld devices, information associated with the container; associating, in a database by the user application as mentioned in this paper.
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Interrogator and Interrogation System Employing the Same
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Paul Shala Henry,Donald J. Barnickel,Farhad Barzegar,Robert Bennett,Irwin Gerszberg,Thomas M. Willis +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a system that receives, by a feed point of a dielectric antenna, electromagnetic waves from a core coupled to the feed point without an electrical return path, and radiates a wireless signal responsive to the electromagnetic waves being received at the aperture.
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Backhaul link for distributed antenna system
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TL;DR: In this article, a distributed antenna system is provided that frequency shifts the output of one or more microcells to a 60 GHz or higher frequency range for transmission to a set of distributed antennas.
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