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Sensor For Cargo Ships Contract Awarded By Homeland Security To Nano-Proprietary

Summary posted by Meridian on 8/16/2007
Source: AZoNano.com
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U.S. company Applied Nanotech, Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Homeland Security Advanced Research Project Agency (HSARPA) to develop a highly reliable, low cost, and low power chemical sensor that can provide real time detection of humans hiding in cargo shipping containers. The article says that the same technology will be adaptable for other modes of transportation, including trucking and air and rail cargo. The article further says that the devices will be able to continuously monitor cargo containers for human presence from the time that the containers are sealed to the time that they reach their final destination. The article can be viewed online at the link below.

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