A transport container and a system for monitoring the contents of a transport container

Abstract

A transport container includes a plurality of side walls including a door in at least one of the side walls through which the inside of the container can be accessed to insert and remove goods from the container. A floor of the container includes several load supporting beams each connected directly or indirectly to at least one side wall of the container. A plurality of weight sensors are located on top of the load supporting beams and an intermediate layer is then located on top of the weight sensors. The intermediate layer is not connected to the side walls so that any load placed on the intermediate layer is transferred on to at least one of the weight sensors which sense the weight of the load and transfer the weight of the load onto at least one of the plurality of load supporting beams.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.