Patent ID: 11924278
Assignee: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  A  B  G | IPC A  B  G  H

Claim 78:
79. A command node apparatus for securely monitoring a shipping container for an environmental anomaly using elements of a wireless node network, the shipping container maintaining at least a plurality of sensor-based ID nodes, the command node apparatus being disposed with the shipping container and comprising:
a command node processor,
a command node memory coupled to the command node processor, the command node memory maintaining at least command node container management program code, and a plurality of security credentials where each of the security credentials are specific to a respective one from a subset of the sensor-based ID nodes,
a wireless transceiver-based communication interface operatively coupled to the command node processor, the wireless transceiver-based communication interface being configured to communicate with each from the subset of the sensor-based ID nodes and communicate with the external transceiver associated with the transit vehicle; and
wherein the command node processor is programmatically configured, when executing the command node container management program code, to be operative to
monitor, via the wireless transceiver-based communication interface, signals broadcast from each of the sensor-based ID nodes, the monitored signals including sensor data generated from each of the sensor-based ID nodes,
identify which of the sensor data is trusted sensor data based upon validation data included within each of the respective monitored signals that includes the sensor data,
detect the environmental anomaly for the shipping container based upon only the identified trusted sensor data, and
in response to detecting the environmental anomaly, initiate a mediation response related to the detected environmental anomaly.