Patent ID: 8907793
Filing Date: 2014-12-09
Classification: F16M,G06Q,G08B

Abstract:
1. A security system for monitoring at least one cargo container, the system comprising: a container security device for detecting a tampering violation of a selected cargo container, said container security device being removably coupled with the selected cargo container and including: at least one anti-tamper sensor for generating output data that undergoes an individual sensor processing procedure and an integrated sensor processing procedure for determining a container alert status; a microcontroller for generating the container alert status from the output data; a communication device for transmitting at least one of the output data and the container alert status; and a plurality of accelerometers and a plurality of strain gages for defining a moment of inertia of the cargo container, said plurality of accelerometers having a first accelerometer being coupled with said container security device at a location distal from a second accelerometer disposed within the cargo container; and a network operations center for receiving at least one of the output data and the container alert stats from said container security device and comprising a communications facility for communicating with at least one telecommunication network.