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Better Smart Seals with IoTRobin Puthli, Tanja Borger

Itude MobileWCO Technology and Innovation Forum 2015, Rotterdam

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Contents• Seals are not locks• Traditional seals• Technology trends• A better smart seal• Demo and questions

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Seals, not locks

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Traditional plastic or bolt seals

• Store evidence of opening• Easy to fool• Tamper indication misses time

or place

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Traditional electronic seals• Use GPS and GSM• Expensive, proprietary• Power hungry• Asset based, requiring installation

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How good are traditional seals?

Extensive research for transportation of nuclear

materials

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Not great…

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The internet…

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Complicated tradelanes make matters worse

• Plaatje tanja

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Anti evidence seals are better

• Seperate seal from lock• Device is inside the container • Stores evidence of staying closed• Wipes evidence when container opened

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Using new technology• Internet of things

• ARM chips• Bluetooth chips• LoRaWan

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Babbler• Bluetooth / LoRa based low cost

devices• Can stay with cargo, end to end• Smartphone and tablet access• Inspect wirelessly from outside• Worldwide online visibility

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Worldwide visibility

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Pet container demo

9 cm

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Itude MobileSmart Seals and Apps for supply chains

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