Cargo Containers Pilferage: Tracking and Checking

Devanshu Suman; Ashutosh Kumar

Abstract

Due to pilferage from the cargo containers, industries suffer a loss of huge sum of money as the cargo containers are used in transporting vast amount of manufactured product/raw shipment material from one place to another. During the transportation, once the pilferage or employee theft is done, all the authorities intricate whether guilty or not comes under the point of suspicion. This results in culminate loss of the industry and people involved in the process of transportation. In United States, a region with emerging trend to ship goods was done either by rail directly from ports to inland or intermodal traffic terminals. To succeed such empanelment shippers requisitely have “visibility” into rail shipments. In this project we strive for provide visibility into shipments through optimal placement of sensor and communication technology. We formally define the notion of visibility and then highlight the objectives of our study. We also are responsible for a comprehensive description of an optimization problem which has been established to regulate optimal sensor locations. Numerous difficulties must be resolved to allow cost-effective perceptibility into rail shipments. We collapse these problems into responsibilities and confer how they can be addressed. The predictable consequence of the proposed research includes a model or several models, that forecast the system cost given an obligation of sensors to rail-based containers. This model can be used to govern cost effective consequences for deploying sensors to containers on a train, as well as the system trade-offs. Keywords: Sensor Placement, Cargo, Trains, Freight, GPSCite this Article: Devanshu Suman, Ashutosh Kumar. Cargo Containers Pilferage: Tracking and Checking. Journal of Offshore Structure and Technology. 2015; 2(1):1–8p.