CairGoLution - Real-time visibility of airfreight cargo flows
Overview
Background & policy context:
Air freight is of great importance in global trade. A large part of the freight traffic is carried out by passenger aircrafts. The concept of a secure supply chain has been introduced by the European Union to ensure security in airfreight traffic. This leads to a high effort in terms of processing technology for the parties involved.
Airfreight is a fast, but costly way of distributing goods. Increasing security requirements are a significant cost factor. The new hybrid service developed in the CairGoLution project is designed to make the airfreight traffic of the future safer and help to keep the effort - and thus the costs - low.
Objectives:
The goal of the project is to obtain a control system along the entire transport chain, which detects integrity violations and reports them to a control centre. For this purpose, a communication-capable telematics module with identification, sensor and localization functions for air freight containers is developed. Innovative X-ray technology will be a key element here: A so-called "profile" of the freight container is to be created from x-ray images, which is stored decentrally and reliably reveals manipulations by comparison with a second x-ray image afterwards.
Methodology:
The development of the system was carried out according to the waterfall model. In the analysis phase the requirements for the technical system were determined. Then a draft of the new security service was issued. This was followed by the implementation of the technical components for the realization of the security service. The developments were tested and improved in several field tests, so that the project results were finally used under realistic conditions.
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