Ninja Tracking Systems, located in UK declared that based on GPS tracking devices, shipping containers from the UK have been GPS tracked to global ports and to land-based destinations, following three month-long testing. GPS tracking has been carried out from within the sealed containers that are ranked as a ‘Faraday Cage’ for GPS signal transmission.
Previously, an autonomously powered GPS tracker placed inside a container with no container modifications for signal enhancement failed to achieve this feat. The final test featured a steel container that prior to setting-off to its destination stateside left Southampton during early July and reached New York nine days shortly after.
The advanced technology deployed in sophisticated GPS tracking devices enables the signal to return to a secure server. Using this capability, users can have access to all tracking information.
With increase in container crime, tampering or hijack of a container, en route can be tracked and detected using this device. Tracking is found to be effective here even in case the doors are opened; the information reaches the operator who can rapidly carry out tracking live on a map, and adopt suitable action to protect the freight. In the past, containers greenly reach destination without important items.
The cost-effective feature of Ninja solution makes freight protection to be a feasible economic solution for massive increase in organized container content stripping, thereby benefiting relocation companies. At present, relocation containers frequently reach destinations without high value items like Plasma televisions and even cars. This versatile, economic solution enables cargo protectiong.
Source: http://www.ninja-tracking-systems.co.uk/