A Real-Life Food Defense Challange: Bulk Milk Transportation

Date:  February 11, 2010

A Real-Life Food Defense Challange: Bulk Milk Transportation, as featured in the Food Saftey Magazine. 

Dr. Fred Payne at the University of Kentucky has developed a wireless system for enhancing the secure delivery of milk from the farm to processor. This project focuses on the development of an economically viable system that both secures the milk during transport and automates the collection of milk data for the dairy industry.  The system electronically locks the milk transport tank for security, collects the milk data with a handheld computer and wirelessly transmits the data to a server for storage. When fully developed, the milk transport security system will meet the automation needs of the dairy industry and add significantly to securing bulk food transport.  

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The Challenge

The task of assuring the security of our homeland involves protecting the citizens of the United States, the nation's critical infrastructure and key assets. This is necessary to sustain the nation's vitality against terrorism and other threats. This protection must originate at the community level. It requires discovering, developing and deploying new technology that will support first responders and key decision makers in local communities.

The Mission

NIHS' mission is to discover, develop and deploy solutions that protect and preserve the critical infrastructure of the nation's communities.

The Institute

NIHS aligns projects and research objectives with the needs and requirements of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The strategy is to manage a distributed research enterprise that effectively transitions research and development into solutions. NIHS works with DHS to determine technology needs at the community level. Then, teams are quickly assembled from multiple universities to develop solutions to the needs.

The Strategy

Through management of the Kentucky Critical Infrastructure Protections Program (KCI), the National Institute for Hometown Security (NIHS) provides an ongoing, integrated program dedicated to developing new technologies and devices. NIHS works through qualified academic institutions to accomplish the technological objectives.