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Coscon’s Customers Use Tags to Monitor Cargo
Coscon Logistics, a subsidiary of the Cosco Container Lines Co. (Coscon), is employing new active tags and the SaviTrak software platform, provided by Savi Networks, to allow the logistics company’s customers to track the location and status of product-filled containers as they pass from China to destinations throughout the world.
Each tag contains a GPS receiver to track its location, as well as sensors that can monitor a container’s internal temperature and humidity, and detect when its door has been opened. When the tag is within range of a GPRS/GSM cellular base station, it transmits its location and sensor data to a back-end system, to be accessed by Coscon’s customers (the shippers of goods contained in those tagged containers). Each tag has a GPRS transmitter with a SIM card for global roaming, as well as four RF options (850, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz) for worldwide operation. Savi Networks, which was established in 2005 as a joint venture between RFID systems provider Savi Technology and cargo terminal operator Hutchison Port Holdings. also provides another tag that includes a 2100 MHz option in addition to the quad GSM bands, for operation in Korea and Japan.
via rfidjournal.com