1. The Dynamic Smart Box™ (DSB) is a standard twenty-foot equivalent unit/shipping container equipped with a system of RFID readers and antennae designed to read the RFID tagged items as they enter or exit the shipping container. The RFID tags continuously track the container as-well-as identify its contents. The Dynamic Smart BoxTM may be modified to apply to other enclosed structures, or designed to a client's needs.
2. Inteligistics' middleware, Inteliware™, enables the smart system to read a combination of passive and active tags and compile the aggregate content information in an IT server associated with the shipping container.
3. The Dynamic Smart Manifest™ (DSM) is the database created from the InteliwareTM as it converts information gathered from the interrogator as it reads the RFID tags on the cartons in the shipping container. The Manifest server, then communicates through a global transportation network. The DSM provides the database used to count, record, identify, track and locate individual items, cartons/packages, pallets and the shipping container, itself, in real time. It will also permit information to trigger alerts, prompts and distribute critical information.
Figure 2: Inteliware interaction with DSM Server
4. The QUAD™ Universal Container is constructed from advanced composite materials that are strong, light weight, and easily manufactured and recycled at the end of the containers useful life. The overall dimensions for the Universal Container are 48 inches in length, 40 inches in width, and 48 inches in height. The container is stackable and capable of supporting at least its own weight when completely loaded, is constructed from durable abrasion resistant materials, transparent to X-ray and other scanning technology, and compatible with radio frequency identification (RFID) technology.
Figure 3: Design Features of Quad™ Universal Container
5. The 5QuadPod™, A Self-contained Modular Shipping Platform, is comprised of five articulated QuadPods™ containing four Quads™. The 5QuadPod™ forms a unitized twenty-foot equivalent unit or shipping container.
Figure 4: Design Features of QuadPod™ Frame
and 5QuadPod™ Self-contained Modular Shipping Platform
(Rendition courtesy of Lanxess)
