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The Global Monitoring Server enables shipping lines to establish automated, centralized remote monitoring of all reefer containers, covering their entire journey from producer to final destination. The secure web server, accessed with a password, provides historical data of container conditions, enabling value adding analysis and integration of container and system data – whenever and wherever desired.
- Improve operation efficiency by integrating online container conditions into central IT-systems and grow business knowledge about operational and assets performance
- Fast settlement of disputes by Web access to historical container conditions including temperature trend curves - independent of time and place
- Enable customers online access to documentation and allow cargo carriers to provide information and additional services which facilitates trust, alliances, and partnerships with the customers
Reefers Online is the web-based interface for the Global Monitoring Server (GMS), which collects and stores data from REFCON, RefLine, and RefBox reefer monitoring systems. These effective monitoring solutions for shipping terminals, warehouses, ships, trains, and trucks record data from reefer refrigeration equipment and sensors, and send it to the Global Monitoring Server via Internet connections, satellites, and GSM SMS/GRPS services.
In their search for a better way of serving their customers, the United States Department of Agriculture - USDA - contacted Johnson Controls to discuss the possible use of the Johnson Controls based tools and infrastructure. It was soon identified that the monitoring products and infrastructure already implemented and operational from Johnson Controls was a perfect platform for a new automated electronic USDA approval procedure.
As a result USDA and Johnson Controls have recently made a joint announcement of the plans to offer fully automated electronic USDA approval of container loads being transported into USA. For USDA as well as the container shipping line this offers a significant efficiency improvement.
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