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Freight Cargo Containers Use Reed Sensors to Thwart Theft

Large truck containers and/or shipping containers usually contain valuable equipment worth millions of dollars/euros. So they can attract the interest of unsavory characters wanting none other that to steal the goods contained within the containers. To do this in the most efficient manner they must remove the entire container and/or truck. Truck/container designers working with MEDER's design engineers have come up with a one-component reed sensor that uses the influence of a steel casing to activate the sensor.

 

Containers generally are off loaded and sit in secure container yards. They will eventually be loaded on trucks for shipment to their final destination. During this time, they are subject to theft. Since the goods in these containers are generally worth millions of dollars/euros, the trucking companies have found it necessary to have gps systems mounted on the containers to track their whereabouts every 20 minutes. Thieves have found out about this and have taken the GPS's off the container and placed them in a car that drives the route of the original destination, while the thieves drive the containing in a different direction with their heist. Truck designers working with MEDER engineers have come up with a solution to this problem.