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Home » RFID Continuously Monitors Containers While at Sea, According to Siemens Unit

RFID Continuously Monitors Containers While at Sea, According to Siemens Unit

February 5, 2008
RFID Journal

Siemens IT Solutions and Services has conducted a proof-of-technology test on RFID-based equipment that can be utilized to monitor shipping containers while they're at sea. The company says the test demonstrated the technology closes a gap found in commercially available cargo-monitoring RFID systems that provide RFID data only while on land.
"We have shown that it's now possible to continuously monitor containers--from the time they leave the harbor to their final destination," says Stefan von der Heide, head of the Mogis (Mobile GSM Infrastructure Over Satellite) solution at Siemens IT Solutions and Services.
The Siemens unit plans to repeat the test using additional tagged containers and a variety of satellite connections. The company is also considering a market launch of the cargo-tracking solution, but declines to disclose details since it's currently in negotiations with partners.
To develop the Mogis system, Siemens IT Solutions and Services teamed with Nokia Siemens Networks, which provided the solution's GSM telecommunications infrastructure, a smaller version of a cellular phone network. TriaGnoSys developed the satellite communications elements. The main application for Mogis is enabling GSM coverage where no such coverage exists, such as on ships at sea, at disaster sites or on airplanes. By adding RFID to the solution, however, the system was adapted for tracking containers on the high seas.
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