Motor Carrier Freight Equipment - Freight Equipment Functionality
Subsystem Description
'Freight Equipment' represents a freight container, intermodal chassis, or trailer and provides sensory, processing, storage, and communications functions necessary to support safe, secure and efficient freight operations. It provides equipment safety data and status and can alert the appropriate systems of an incident, breach, or tamper event. It also provides accurate position information to support in–transit visibility of freight equipment.
Functional Object: Freight Equipment Monitoring
'Freight Equipment Monitoring' includes the on–board devices used to monitor intermodal freight equipment. These devices provide freight equipment location and status of the freight, container, or chassis equipment.