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Hazardous Cargo Bulletin
March 2003
Lat-Lon, a US provider of wireless monitoring and GPS tracking devices to the freight industry, has deployed its new RailRider™ product for train monitoring.
The device is part of the company’s RailTough line of tracking products.
RailRider™ joins several other innovative tracking products released by the group in the last 12 months, including a refrigerated freight monitoring and tracking system, and a freight security monitoring system for intermodal containers, which includes GPS tracking, break wire monitoring and open door detection.
"All these product lines were developed in response to customers who contacted us after looking for suitable technologies in the general market without success," says John Felty, national sales manager at Lat-Lon.
"Lat-Lon’s considerable experience in designing and building wireless monitoring devices for the railroad industry allowed us to develop an economical container tracking model quickly."
The patented X-8 transmitter at the core of the new RailRider™ Locomotive Monitoring System has been in deployment in rail service for about two years.
Lat-Lon broke new ground in the tracking and monitoring industry by making the X-8 a completely self-contained, industrially hardened, solar powered unit.
Equipped with an optional magnetic mounting system, it can be installed on a locomotive, rail car or other mobile asset in minutes, and may be moved if necessary to allow flexibility in assets being tracked.
"Containers carrying dangerous goods should be equipped with GPS tracking and monitoring systems," says Felty.
"It is likely that hazardous cargo shipments will be one of the early adopters of this technology due to the fact that it represents a high-profile segment of the supply chain.
But the real payoff for the shippers of hazardous goods will be in an improved bottom line through the power of increased asset visibility."
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