Product Description
CONTAINER MARKINGS
With billions of containers in circulation in world (approx 200 million TEU), the main issue of those who must transport them is knowing how to locate their container and or course the goods that are being transported.
ISO “International Organization for Standardization ” has established a unique identification code for every single container.
This alphanumerical code has 11 figures and is known as the “CODICE BIC” by the “BUREAU INTERNATIONAL DES CONTAINERS” Paris.
EXAMPLE
From the code we can identify:
The PROPRIETER
The CONTAINER NUMBER
A CHECK DIGIT
TTNU 302512 4
The proprietor: 4 letters
[fourth position: U,J,Z for worldwide traffic]
Service number(6 digits, proprietors choice)
+ Check digit number.
The owner code, also known as Alpha Prefix, is only be issued for the whole world by BIC, while the service number is determined independently by the owner and the self-checking digit is automatically calculated by an algorithm starting from the previous ten letters and numbers.
The marking system of each container is normally performed using the letters and numbers, from the self adhesive plastic material that are applied on each side of the container to make sure it can be visually identified.
The control of each individual container is done visually by a human being that brings it back manually on the relevant documents.
A REGULARIZED CONTAINER, CAN HELP REGULARIZE OTHERSI
This is the control system largely used for checking containers: but it has serious deficiencies: Mainly the possibility of duplicating the same code on the self adhesive labels and applying it to more than one container.
As a result, as if by magic, an inspected and regularized container, automatically checks other containers “Homonyms” uninspected and therefore illegal.
The danger to the State and economical nature (is millions of dollars for every single container) also relative to the security (dangerous goods, arms explosives, chemical or biological hazards).
HUMAN ERROR
Human error when reading the container ID and documents is around 12%.
Even if the error in unintentional, the economical damage is still thousands of dollars for the parties involved – both private companies and the Customs who handle the inspections. The time required to read the ID code, write it down on the relative document and then check this is lengthy.
… The time taken has been calculated at between one to three minutes for each single container, which, if multiplied by hundreds of thousands of containers handled each year, gives an impressive figure of working hours that are used up to identify a container. The cost is millions of dollars.
ALL THIS CAN COME TO AN END IMMEDIATELY using an RFID tag which visually states the number and identification code of the container, but CANNOT BE MODIFIED ON AN ELECTRONIC LEVEL .
RFID stands for “Radio-Frequency Identification”
RFID ELECTRONIC IDENTIFICATION
Easy to apply RFID plaque “TAGETE ” can be immediately used in any terminal equipped with doors with RFID readers and interfaces directly with any management system.
It can be read from several meters away and reduces human error to zero.
The placque is also fitted with a unique serial number and a user memory that can store info and data according to the requirement.
The RFID tags within our “TAGETE*” CONTAINER RFID E-LABEL are of the ISO standard : ISOIEC 18000-6C EPC CLASS1 GEN 2.
MADE IN ITALY
The TAG RFID is uniquely numbered, cannot be modified in any way as the numbering is burned onto the chip’s memory.
This numbering on the chip is in turn linked to the container ID number, and together they ensure the identification of the container which can by no means repeated or copied.
The RFID tag can store the following basic information:
- Movement date
- Type of operation
- User who carried out the operation
- Container number
- Possible to add a further security code