Cadec Corporation, a provider of onboard logistics management technology, has joined the Freight Transportation Security Consortium.

With more than 25 member companies, the FTSC has agreed to work together to establish common standards for security-related messaging and data encryption for the GPS location devices that track tank trucks and tank rail cars used to carry hazardous materials.
Among the various objectives of the standards-setting effort is central monitoring of the nearly 200,000 assets in the Hazmat supply chain. The Consortium believes that widespread implementation of location and sensoring devices will markedly reduce the risk of hijacking and tampering by terrorists and that a central monitoring system will enable rapid and effective communication with the police, fire and other first responders across the country.
"Developing an effective centralized security tracking system is going to take a great deal of time and cooperation on the part of many vendors in the industry," said Joanne Allen, director of marketing for Cadec Corporation. "Since we are becoming increasingly involved in homeland security, joining FTSC was a natural step for Cadec.”
The FTSC solution has four elements: 1) Employ the entire range of modern GPS location and sensoring devices now offered commercially by FTSC members to track the vehicles moving hazmats in real-time, 2) collect and organize data from those security devices in a secure national repository, 3) monitor the national fleet on a 24-7 basis for security threats as well as more traditional safety events and 4) engage an emergency response capability that can empower the first responder community with the intelligence needed to prevent or mitigate security violations.