Logistics Monitoring and Security

Abstract

The economy of a country is majorly based on business and trade with the other countries. Trade involves moving logistics, which are very excessive and expensive. They move over hundreds of kilo meters through different kinds of terrain and remote areas. In our country, moving containers are always at risk of theft and terrorist attempts. These sort of attempts on NATO containers were a big story in recent years of Pakistan. Now we have the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) at its start. It is the biggest economic trade Pakistan has ever been into. To our enemies and other land pirates, this economic trade concerns the most. They can or tend to harm logistics carrying containers in any possible way. In addition to attacks and hijackings, there also exist other reasons of losing expensive logistics i.e. If logistics within containers catch fire due to leakage of gas or any other reason. Security of these logistics is very important for the owners and related authorities. Keeping track of containers on the move is not physically possible as their location and status is not known by the authorities. The only way of monitoring logistics 24/7 is by remote access. Our project is based on monitoring logistics on real time. Every container on the move is to be monitored by using GPS and get status of fire, gas leakage and opening of the doors during journey. This information will be accessible to the owners and authorities on web and mobile application.