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Protect your goods via mobile radio

GERMANY -- Siemens Information and Communication Mobile Group (ICM) has begun offering its m.traction Parcel Watch Service that offers a mobile data service for monitoring high-value goods.

This new location-dependent service (LDS) utilizes conventional mobile phones or special modules that enable shipping companies, package service companies, insurers and security companies to track even individual goods via the Web on their way to the customer and to determine their location at configurable tracking intervals. It is also possible to determine whether stationary items have been removed from their location. The m.traction uses a combination of GSM and GPRS, and can even be used where GPS systems no longer provide data because there is no line-of-sight to a satellite.

This mobile data service activates an alarm, as soon as one of the packages protected by the modules deviates from its planned route or is opened at the wrong time. A radio module, equipped with light and motion sensors, reports the location of the goods to a central computer at defined intervals (tracking intervals). This computer enters data into a geodata server, which displays the location of the goods to the administrator at the push of a button on a scalable card segment via the Internet. The entire transport route can be viewed via the Internet. Similarly, the m.traction Parcel Watch Service can be utilized to monitor stationary goods, such as bank ATMs. The integrated motion sensors are activated for these applications.