Invention Reference Number
A method is proposed to address the real-time tracking and monitoring of Radioactive/Nuclear materials in transportation using Smart Packaging (SP), together with 3-D printing and Ad-Hoc networking. Each R/N cargo/package in transport is equipped with an edge computing device and a suite of sensors using the SP technology. Integrated with the wireless sensing and secure networking, SP equipped R/N cargos communicate with each other and/or with the vehicle infrastructure and also eventually to the cloud, enabling distributed system-wide situation awareness and improving remote real-time crisis management capability. Beyond simple tagging, the sensors and edge devices can be embedded into 3D-printed cargo containers for additional security protection of sensor suite.
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