With the acceleration of global economic integration, multiple sets of container inspection system be equipped on one country or area simultaneously become more and more prevalent in customs suppress smuggling and boarder control field. However, with the increasing of inspection equipments, and its wide distribution, customs center needs to invest more efforts and resources to monitor the daily business of each checkpoint. Therefore, customs center hopes the images generated by each checkpoint’s inspection equipments can be managed intensively, normatively, and professionally through resource integration.
So far, following problems are prevailing to country/area with multiple sets of container inspection system:
1. Different product models
2. Different product application scenarios
These disable the center to monitor the checkpoints effectively, and precisely, lead to the fact that enterprises’ export & import business cannot be monitored effectively in terms of trueness and validity.
To strengthen monitoring/supervision, the construction and implementation of data centralized management system has been clearly stated by customs.
The general requirements of Customs are as follow:
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A data consolidated storage and display solution has been designed by combining with practical situation. This solution applies to NUCTECH’s large-sized Container Inspection Systems (CISs), as well as satisfying following 4 principles: advancement, integration & openness, convenience, security and reliability.
Detailed design:
The solution is to connect multiple sets of inspection equipment widely distributed and independently run within a place or space through LAN or WAN and then build a data center for consolidated display and storage, so that the management center located remotely can access to and analyze the images generated by the inspection systems at various customs checkpoints through the network.
The solution is divided into 3 levels of application architectures as shown in the figure below:
The first is the equipment application level for the CIS to perform equipment control, image scan/inspection and transmission of business data and scanned images.
The second is the application level for data center application to perform functions like receiving various data, consolidated storage and data re-transmission and also it will have interface to exchange with the existing EDI systems of customs.
The third is the application level for the upper management to conduct functional applications, such as the image comparison service, the consolidated data inspection center, the risk stationing and inspection application, as well as functions like making statistics and analyzing/generalizing on various kinds of data, deriving reports out, managing user permission.