Patent ID: 8294573

Claim:
A system for monitoring containers, logically coupled to respective tracking devices, transported in a transport vessel from a geographically located source location to a geographically located destination location, comprising: a mesh network located on said transport vessel, formed at a predetermined time from a plurality of first short-range transceiving devices, each coupled to a respective tracking device; a satellite navigation system receiver located on said transport vessel and obtaining location information of said transport vessel; a processing device, coupled to said transport vessel and said satellite navigation system receiver, said processing device including a second short-range radio transceiving device adapted to communicate with said mesh network via at least one of the first short-range radio transceiving devices, said processing device transmitting a sleep mode duration message, based on said obtained geographic location of said transport vessel and including a sleep mode duration command, to disable said mesh network according to the transmitted sleep mode duration; and a user interface disposed on the transport vessel, wherein the user interface is in operative communication with said processing device and wherein the user interface is configured to set a sleep mode duration to be transmitted by said processing device.