CONTINUOUS SECURITY STATE TRACKING FOR INTERMODAL CONTAINERS TRANSPORTED THROUGH A GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN

摘要

A control center (110) continuously monitors a security state of a container through an extended network spanning from a shipper to a consignee. Control center (11) changes the security state responsive to explicit information received from a trusted agent, or implicit information detected from business logic. Trusted monitor agents continuously track the security state from the shipper checkpoint to the origin checkpoint to a destination checkpoint. A trusted consignee agent sends termination information from the consignee checkpoint to the data center. The checkpoints further comprise site managers (410) to communicate information gathered by RFID from tags on containers to the control center (110).