Systems for coordinated mediation action in response to an identified environmental anomaly on a shipping container

An improved fire suppression system disposed on a transit vehicle for coordinated mediation action in response to an identified environmental anomaly on a shipping container being transported by the transit vehicle, the transit vehicle including an external transceiver, the shipping container having a plurality of wireless ID nodes disposed at different locations within the shipping container, wherein each of the wireless ID nodes being at a low level of a hierarchical wireless node network and each of the wireless ID nodes being respectively configured and operative to broadcast signals over a first wireless communication path, the system comprising:

• a fire suppressant material reservoir that temporarily maintains a fire suppressant material;
• a fire suppressant material pump connected to the fire suppressant material reservoir and responsive to a pump control input to activate pumping the fire suppressant material from the fire suppressant material reservoir;
• an articulating delivery nozzle connected to the fire suppressant material pump that receives the pumped fire suppressant material and deploys to deliver the fire suppressant material to the shipping container;
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• a wireless transceiver-based controller operating as a master node at a middle level of the hierarchical wireless node network, the master node being operative to generate the pump control input and cause the articulating delivery nozzle to deploy and deliver the fire suppressant material to the shipping container;
• wherein the master node is further configured to operate as a primary monitor for the environmental anomaly by being operative to:
• (a) wirelessly monitor the signals being broadcast from the wireless ID nodes,
• (b) responsively identify the environmental anomaly based upon the monitored signals broadcast from the wireless ID nodes,
• (c) generate a layered alert notification related to the environmental anomaly for the shipping container in response to identifying the environmental anomaly for the shipping container, wherein the layered alert notification identifies a targeted mediation action and establishes a mediation response priority, and
• (d) initiate a mediation response by the fire suppression system related to the targeted mediation action and the mediation response priority.

An improved fire suppression system disposed on a transit vehicle for coordinated mediation action in response to an identified environmental anomaly on a shipping container being transported by the transit vehicle, the transit vehicle including an external transceiver, the shipping container having a plurality of wireless ID nodes disposed at different locations within the shipping container, wherein each of the wireless ID nodes being at a low level of a hierarchical wireless node network and each of the ID nodes being respectively configured and operative to broadcast signals over a first wireless communication path, the system comprising:

• a pressurized fire suppressant material container that temporarily maintains a fire suppressant material;
• a release nozzle coupled to the pressurized fire suppressant material container that receives the pressurized fire suppressant material and selectively opens to allow the fire suppressant material to flow from the pressurized fire suppressant material container, in response to an activation input signal, to deliver the fire suppressant material to the shipping container;
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• a wireless transceiver-based controller operating as a master node at a middle level of the hierarchical wireless node network, the master node being operative to generate the activation input signal and cause the release nozzle to open and deliver the fire suppressant material to the shipping container;
• wherein the master node is further configured to operate as a primary monitor for the environmental anomaly by being operative to:
• (a) wirelessly monitor the signals being broadcast from the wireless ID nodes,
• (b) responsively identify the environmental anomaly based upon the monitored signals broadcast from the ID nodes,
• (c) generate a layered alert notification related to the environmental anomaly for the shipping container in response to identifying the environmental anomaly for the shipping container, wherein the layered alert notification identifies a targeted mediation action and establishes a mediation response priority, and
• (d) initiate a mediation response by the fire suppression system related to the targeted mediation action and the mediation response priority.