The group has been monitoring the shipments, which are tied to nuclear power plants in Japan.
Rivigo's tech platform also includes a network of sensors that are used to monitor the temperature of refrigerated shipments, track security and location, and monitor the performance of each vehicle down to its individual parts.
Typically, officials said, one of the smugglers made contact with the undercover agent to ease passage of the shipments through the port with a bribe; the smuggler also employed a customs broker, identified by the authorities as Robin Huff, 46, of Brooklyn, to monitor the status of inspections of the shipments using an electronic cargo database.
"We typically check products, new shipments and deliveries, monitor the proficiency of the mashgiach," Rabbi Larry Rothwachs, the council's president, wrote in an e-mail message.
Alternatively, low technology solutions, such as temperature indicator labels that change color if the temperature exceeds a preset limit, are an inexpensive investment to monitor the integrity of the clinical sample-containing shipment.
The middleware is being implemented as a part of a project that aims to monitor the Italian petrochemical company Eni's oil trucks shipment along Europe and USA territories.
Prior to shipment from Biol, the Argentina-based manufacturer of the OIU used in this study, LogTag devices were placed in the containers used to transport the OIU in order to monitor the temperature to which the OIU devices were exposed during shipment from manufacturing site to storage at the KHRC.
Aiding the process are numerous spotters, who monitor the southern Arizona desert from lookout points and help steer the migrants, as well as drug shipments, away from the authorities.
FedEx never monitored the radiation while the shipment was in its custody.
Late Thursday night, with complaints growing, Mr. Calderón made a point of going to the airport and being filmed as he monitored the arrival of a new shipment of masks, donated by China.
But who monitors the monitors?
