With the rapid growth of global trade, customs supervision is facing increasingly complex and diversified challenges. Traditional manual inspection methods can no longer meet the growing demand for fast and efficient clearance. To address this, the our company has launched the Smart Customs Management System, which integrates advanced intelligent technologies to automate and optimize the entire process—from fumigation treatment and radiation detection to clearance management—significantly enhancing efficiency, safety, and transparency in customs operations.
I. Intelligent Fumigation Treatment System: Precision and Efficiency for Cargo Safety
Intelligent Fumigation Treatment System
As international trade volume increases, goods such as timber and agricultural products—often carriers of pests and diseases—pose a growing risk. Traditional fumigation methods face limitations in terms of efficiency, safety, and environmental concerns. To address these issues, the Intelligent Fumigation Treatment System uses automation technology to manage the entire fumigation process with greater precision and effectiveness.
Core System Modules:
1. Container Translation and Positioning System: When a cargo container enters the fumigation area, the system automatically moves it into position using electric translation mechanisms and rails. This equipment is capable of handling containers of various sizes, reducing manual handling complexity and error rates, ensuring a continuous and efficient fumigation process.
Container Translation and Positioning System
2. Fumigation Chamber Doors and Sealing System: The fumigation chamber is designed with high airtightness to withstand pressure changes of up to ≥300Pa without deforming, ensuring that fumigation agents are fully contained within the chamber. The system includes an automatic airtightness testing function, guaranteeing safety during operations even without on-site personnel.
Fumigation Chamber Doors and Sealing System
3. Environmental Temperature and Humidity Control System: Using electric heaters, temperature and humidity sensors, and circulation ducts, the system monitors and adjusts the internal temperature and humidity of the fumigation chamber in real-time. This ensures uniform evaporation of fumigation agents. The system can automatically adjust temperature and humidity levels to optimize the fumigation process based on different requirements.
Environmental Temperature and Humidity Control System
4. Fumigation Agent Delivery and Circulation System: Fumigation agents are delivered automatically and precisely according to predefined dosages and multiple-point distribution plans. A high-efficiency ventilation system ensures that the agents are evenly distributed throughout the fumigation chamber. After the process is completed, the system rapidly discharges residual agents and purges the chamber, maintaining environmental cleanliness and safety.
Fumigation Agent Delivery and Circulation System
5. Temperature and Concentration Monitoring System: Multiple sensors monitor the temperature and agent concentration in the fumigation chamber in real-time, ensuring that the entire fumigation process adheres to preset standards. The data is transmitted to a central control system for remote monitoring and report generation.
Temperature and Concentration Monitoring System
6. Exhaust Gas Recovery and Environmental Protection System: The system integrates a methyl bromide exhaust gas recovery system, using high-surface-area carbon fiber adsorption media to efficiently recover methyl bromide gas generated during fumigation. Recovery efficiency can reach up to 70% within 60 minutes, with a purification rate of ≥95%. This system significantly reduces environmental pollution and complies with global environmental regulations, promoting resource recycling.
Exhaust Gas Recovery and Environmental Protection System
Through this intelligent fumigation solution, the entire fumigation process is automated and precise, improving operational efficiency, reducing human error, and significantly enhancing environmental protection.
II. Fixed Vehicle Radiation Detection System: Continuous Monitoring to Prevent Smuggling of Nuclear Materials
Fixed Vehicle Radiation Detection System
With the widespread use of nuclear materials and radioactive isotopes in industries like medicine, research, and manufacturing, the risk of illegal transport and smuggling of nuclear materials has increased. The Fixed Vehicle Radiation Detection System employs advanced radiation detection technology to monitor vehicles entering and exiting customs areas, detecting and preventing the movement of illicit nuclear materials, thereby ensuring national security.
Core System Modules:
1. High-Precision Radiation Detectors: The system is equipped with high-precision γ-ray and neutron detectors. The γ-ray detectors use sodium iodide crystals combined with PVT and photomultiplier tubes, covering an energy range from 25 keV to 3 MeV, with a response efficiency greater than 98% and a response time of under 0.3 seconds. The neutron detectors use helium tubes and polyethylene moderators, capturing neutron radiation from 0.025 eV to 14 MeV with over 98% detection efficiency.
2. Detection Zone and Data Collection: The detectors are positioned on both sides of the vehicle lanes, covering a wide detection range (from 0.1 meters to 5 meters in height and 0 to 5 meters in width). The system also features background radiation suppression, ensuring accurate detection of vehicle and cargo radiation levels.
3. Alarm and Image Capture: If radiation levels exceed a preset threshold, the system triggers an alarm and automatically captures images and videos of the vehicle. All alarm information and relevant data are uploaded to the central monitoring platform for further analysis and evidence gathering.
4. Nuclear Isotope Identification and Classification: The system can automatically identify radioactive isotopes, including special nuclear materials (SNM), medical radioactive isotopes, natural radioactive materials (NORM), and industrial isotopes. Unknown isotopes are flagged for further analysis.
5. Data Recording and Analysis: The system records real-time radiation data for each vehicle, including radiation type, intensity, and alarm status. This data can be stored, queried, and analyzed, providing reliable data support for customs supervision and decision-making.
6. System Advantages: The system has a low false alarm rate (<0.1%) and supports dynamic adjustment of alarm thresholds. It is capable of operating in complex environments (temperature range: -40°C to 70°C, humidity range: 0% to 93%), ensuring stable performance in various conditions. It also supports remote monitoring and data sharing, enhancing flexibility and efficiency in supervision.
III. Customs Intelligent Checkpoint System: Fully Automated Access Management to Improve Clearance Efficiency
As global trade and logistics continue to expand rapidly, the role of customs supervision becomes increasingly vital in ensuring national security, facilitating trade compliance, and improving customs clearance efficiency. Traditional manual inspection methods suffer from inefficiency, errors, delays, and data silos, making it difficult to meet the regulatory demands of modern ports, logistics parks, and border checkpoints. The Customs Intelligent Checkpoint System integrates various cutting-edge front-end technologies, such as container number recognition, electronic license plate recognition, IC card management, LED guidance, electronic weighing, and barrier control, to automate vehicle and cargo management. This system not only enhances regulatory efficiency and safety but also supports data collection, storage, analysis, and real-time sharing, providing reliable technical support for intelligent customs clearance and risk management.
Core System Modules:
1. Front-End Central Control System
The Front-End Central Control System integrates multiple front-end devices and subsystems, including container number recognition, vehicle guidance, IC card identity verification, weighing, electronic barrier control, voice broadcasting, license plate recognition, and data management. This system centralizes control and automates vehicle passage and information collection, serving as the operational core of the Customs Intelligent Checkpoint.
a. Container Number Recognition System
A key component of the front-end control system, the Container Number Recognition System automatically captures and identifies container numbers and types, achieving fast and accurate data collection. The system recognizes single or multiple containers while the vehicle is moving, without manual intervention. When a container vehicle enters the checkpoint lane, infrared sensors detect the container’s position, triggering cameras to capture images from multiple angles. The images are processed using advanced image recognition algorithms to identify the container number and type, and the results are immediately uploaded to the central control system for vehicle management and customs supervision. In cases of errors, operators can manually intervene, with all modifications recorded for traceability. The system is capable of recognizing various container sizes, operating 24/7, and delivering results within 10 seconds, with a recognition accuracy of over 97%.
Container Number Recognition System
b. LED Guidance System
The LED Guidance System is a crucial auxiliary module, used to guide vehicles into precise positions within the checkpoint lane, improving container number recognition and weighing accuracy. The system uses real-time visual cues such as traffic lights, arrows, or numerical indicators to guide vehicles, and adjusts brightness automatically based on lighting conditions, ensuring stable 24/7 operation. This system significantly enhances automation and intelligent management at checkpoints.
c. IC Card System
The IC Card System manages access permissions for vehicles and personnel, ensuring only authorized individuals can enter specific lanes. The system reads IC card information for identity verification and records each passage event, linking the data to vehicle and container information for automatic collection and storage. This high-accuracy system operates reliably in all conditions, offering a robust solution for intelligent clearance and supervision.
d. License Plate Recognition System
The License Plate Recognition System combines RFID and optical license plate recognition technologies for non-contact identity verification. It reads RFID tags on vehicles or containers, achieving recognition accuracy of over 99.9%. Additionally, the system utilizes optical license plate recognition cameras, capturing plate information even under complex lighting conditions. The system operates continuously, quickly capturing and associating license plate data with container and weighing information to ensure smooth and accurate customs management.
2. Gate Management System
The Gate Management System is the core execution module of the Customs Intelligent Checkpoint System, responsible for full-process control of vehicle entry and exit, data collection, storage, and distribution. The system collaborates with the front-end control system and devices to achieve automatic identification, weighing, release, alarm notification, and operation log recording. It ensures the efficiency and security of the passage process while providing real-time data to the central control system.
a. Data Collection and Uploading
The system collects key information in real-time, such as vehicle identity, weight, container number, entry/exit times, and device status. The data is standardized and processed locally, then uploaded to the central control system via TCP/IP or serial communication. The system supports data recovery, ensuring the integrity of the information even in complex network environments.
b. Data Storage and Management
All passage records, recognition results, weighing data, and operation logs are stored and managed in a layered approach. Short-term data is stored in a local database, while long-term data is periodically synchronized to the central control or supervision center database, with automatic backup and encryption to ensure security.
c. Release Control and Data Distribution
The system automatically controls barriers, LED displays, and voice prompts based on preset release rules and field data, enabling full process control. In case of exceptions, manual intervention options are provided. Release results are distributed in real time to printing terminals and the central control system.
d. Query and Statistical Analysis
The system supports multi-condition queries and statistical analysis, generating reports on passage volume, vehicle types, anomalies, and average passage times. It also supports Excel or PDF export, aiding in business management, performance evaluation, and customs supervision.
3. Networked Data Exchange System
The Networked Data Exchange System enables the Customs Intelligent Checkpoint System to communicate with upper-level regulatory systems, other customs platforms, and third-party business systems, facilitating secure and real-time data sharing. It supports various communication protocols and data format conversion, ensuring accurate and secure data transmission for automation, risk monitoring, and business analysis.
a. Data Interface and Protocol Compatibility
The system supports multiple communication protocols such as HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/SFTP, WebService, API interfaces, and MQ messaging queues, ensuring compatibility with different regulatory systems, electronic ports, customs platforms, or enterprise databases. The system also provides data format conversion, field mapping, and unified encoding to eliminate data silos caused by inconsistent interface standards.
b. Data Collection and Aggregation
The system collects vehicle passage data, recognition information, weighing data, and release records in real time from the front-end and gate management systems. After cleaning, deduplication, and anomaly detection, the data is standardized, ensuring data quality and completeness before transmission.
c. Data Transmission and Synchronization
The system supports both real-time and scheduled batch data transmission, with built-in mechanisms for breakpoint recovery, error retries, and automatic data upload after network recovery, ensuring safe, stable two-way synchronization between local and upper-level systems.
d. Data Security and Access Control
The system employs SSL/TLS, AES, and RSA encryption technologies to secure data transmission and storage. It also offers access control and authentication mechanisms to ensure only authorized users or systems can access or modify the data. The system records operation logs and access audits for compliance and security management.
Conclusion: A New Era of Intelligent Customs Supervision
The application of the Smart Customs Management System marks a significant step toward intelligent customs supervision. By introducing advanced automation and intelligent technologies, customs authorities have enhanced their capabilities across a wide range of operations, from fumigation treatment to radiation monitoring and clearance management. These systems not only improve efficiency but also ensure greater security and compliance with international regulations. As customs supervision becomes increasingly intelligent and automated, we are entering a new era of global trade facilitation, with enhanced safety, reduced operational costs, and streamlined processes.
Post time: Dec-03-2025