USA: The US Army Transportation Command has awarded AssetLink Global its Rail Car In-Transit Visibility contract to provide tracking and remote monitoring of wagons owned by the Department of War.
This includes load and impact detection sensors.
The contract ‘is a strong validation of our increasing focus on the rail sector’, said James MacLean III, CEO of rugged industrial monitoring technology company Geoforce which recently acquired satellite and cellular-enabled tracking and sensor integration specialist AssetLink.
‘As we integrate AssetLink’s secure communications and sensor expertise with Geoforce’s industrial platform, we are delivering solutions that meet the highest standards of security and reliability — exactly what defence and rail customers require.’
The Geoforce and AssetLink technology has also been deployed by ‘one of North America’s largest railcar manufacturing, leasing and management companies’ and by ‘a major global industrial minerals company’, which are using a variety of trackers, impact monitors, temperature, door entry and other sensors.