US 2022/0063901 A1Published application

Intelligent equipment security system

AssigneeFederal Express Corporation

InventorsAnthony James HYATT, Andrew Charles JENSEN, Hal Wesley BORLAND, Dennis Wayne HARNER, Daniel Robert MARTIN

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Abstract

An equipment security system includes one or more sensors or optical recording devices disposed on or inside a cargo container. A computing device receives data from the one or more sensors or optical recording devices, determines whether an event has occurred at the cargo container, determines a geofence associated with the cargo container, and selects or configures a dynamic script including instructions that specify whether to begin recording an event occurring at or inside the cargo container, whether to record the event in an overwritable, local memory associated with at least one of the one or more sensors or optical recording devices or the computing device, parameters that govern how data associated with the event will be recorded, and whether to upload the data from the local memory to a remote server.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An equipment security system, comprising:

a remote server;
and
a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a cargo container, the monitoring system including one or more sensors disposed on or inside the cargo container and configured to sense attributes of at least one of the container, cargo within the container, or an area that is one of inside the container or within a distance from the container, and an onboard computer mounted on or in close proximity to the cargo container, wherein at least one of the remote server or the onboard computer is configured to:
receive data communications from the one or more sensors,
based on the data communications, determine whether an event has occurred at the cargo container,
determine a geofence associated with the cargo container,
based on at least one of a determination of whether an event has occurred, whether the cargo container is located within the determined geofence, or a type of data received from the one or more sensors, perform at least one of selecting or configuring a dynamic script, wherein the dynamic script includes software instructions that:
specify whether to begin recording an event occurring at or inside the cargo container,
specify whether to record the event in an overwritable, local memory associated with at least one of the one or more sensors or the onboard computer,
specify parameters that govern how data associated with the event will be recorded, and
specify whether to upload the data from the local memory to the remote server.

8 more elements

A cargo container security system, comprising:

a back office server;
one or more sensors disposed on or inside the cargo container and configured to sense attributes of at least one of the container, cargo within the container, or an area that is one of inside the container or within a predetermined distance from the container;
an onboard computer disposed in association with the cargo container;
and
one or more client devices or mobile devices communicatively coupled to at least one of the one or more sensors, the onboard computer, or the back office server, wherein at least one of the onboard computer, the back office server, or the one or more client devices or mobile devices is configured to:
receive data communications from the one or more sensors,
based on the received data communications, determine whether an event has occurred at the cargo container,
determine a geofence associated with the cargo container,
based on at least one of a determination of whether an event has occurred at the cargo container, the determined geofence, or a type of data received from the one or more sensors, perform at least one of selecting or configuring a dynamic script, wherein the dynamic script includes software instructions that:
specify whether to begin recording an event occurring at or inside the cargo container,
specify whether to record the event in an overwritable, local memory associated with at least one of the one or more sensors, the onboard computer, or the one or more client devices or mobile devices,
specify parameters that govern how data associated with the event will be recorded, and
specify whether to upload the data from the overwritable, local memory to the back office server.

10 more elements

A method of monitoring a cargo container, wherein one or more sensors are disposed on or inside the cargo container and configured to sense attributes of at least one of the container, cargo within the container, or an area that is one of inside the container or within a predetermined distance from the container, and a computing device is communicatively coupled with the one or more sensors, the method comprising:

receiving, at the computing device, data communications from the one or more sensors,
based on the received data communications, determining, with the computing device, whether an event has occurred at the cargo container,
determining, with the computing device, a geofence associated with the cargo container,
based on at least one of a determination of whether an event has occurred at the cargo container, the determined geofence, or a type of data received from the one or more sensors, performing at least one of selecting or configuring a dynamic script using the computing device, wherein the dynamic script includes software instructions that:
specify whether to begin recording an event occurring at or inside the cargo container,
specify whether to record the event in an overwritable, local memory associated with at least one of the one or more sensors, or the computing device,
specify parameters that govern how data associated with the event will be recorded, and
specify whether to upload the data from the overwritable, local memory to a remote server.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.