Police are outsourcing criminal-catching to IoT in Dutch ports

The Internet of Trucks is here. Or, to be, more specific: the internet of tarpaulins. Industrial textile company Sioen is currently developing smart truck tarpaulins that notify security when someone tries to cut through it. It’s one of three new innovations created for the project PASSAnT, a Dutch-Belgian initiative by Interreg to deal with crime in Dutch and Belgian harbors. With an increasing number of illegal immigrants trying to make their way to the UK, people smuggling has drastically increased in harbors near the Dutch-Belgian border. New Calais The Dutch city of Moerdijk, already dubbed “the new Calais” by some,…

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https://ift.tt/2SEKI46 Anouk Vleugels November 01, 2018 at 06:00AM