RF4CE for automotive and industrial environments

A mobile container system comprising:

• a cargo container;
• a controller that monitors and maintains conditions of a space within the cargo container;
• and
• a wireless personal area network (WPAN) comprising:
• a set of wireless sensor nodes that generate, for the controller, status information relating to the cargo container, and
• a coordinator node that receives, on behalf of the controller, the status information via wireless connections to paired ones of the set of sensor nodes, thereby enabling the set of sensors to provide the status information for use by the controller via the coordinator node;
• wherein a wireless sensor node, of the set of wireless sensor nodes, is configured to sense a status of a control point in the cargo container,
• wherein the wireless sensor node is configured to sense an open/closed status of a door, and
• wherein the wireless sensor node is configured to sense a change in magnetic field in response to a change in the open/closed status of the door.