September 12, 2005—Science Applications International Corporation’s (SAIC) Security and Transportation Technology Business Unit has announced that it has been awarded a contract by Union Pacific Railroad (UP) to supply and install one of its integrated intermodal solutions, an automated gate system, to enhance productivity and security at UP’s intermodal terminal in Salt Lake City, Utah.
SAIC has has installed similar systems at other UP facilities.
SAIC’s integrated intermodal solutions streamline the processing of equipment and personnel at ports, rail yards and other intermodal facilities. Combining optical character recognition (OCR), biometrics and other technologies, the gate system in Salt Lake City will enable UP to automatically identify and process containers, trucks, chassis and drivers at the entry and exit gates. UP will use the data from the system for traffic routing, security, record keeping and other functions.
At the gates, OCR portals will read equipment numbers and capture images of containers for online damage inspection. In the gate lanes, kiosks will perform driver transactions, using ultrasonic fingerprint scanning to identify drivers. SAIC’s central server will integrate the information for each truck and send it to the terminal operating system in near-real time.
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