Patent ID: 7352284

Claim:
A security material for protecting an article from tampering comprising: a cloth woven of a plurality of threads, one or more of the plurality of threads comprising a conducting wire, the conducting wire carrying an electrical current and/or voltage; an integrated circuit electrically connected to each of the one or more conducting wires for monitoring the conducting wires, the integrated circuit containing logic for determining whether tampering is occurring and activating one of a plurality of pre-programmed alerts, the integrated circuit logic being programmable to prevent false alarms; and a plurality of accelerometers embedded in the cloth and electrically connected to the integrated circuit; wherein tampering with the article causes a break in one or more of the conducting wires resulting in a loss of current and/or voltage therein or causes accelerations detected by the plurality of accelerometers and thereby causing the integrated circuit logic to activate at least one of the plurality of pre-programmed alerts.