Year
2016
Abstract
A technique utilizing electrically conductive textiles as a whole-container tamper seal has been under development at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the past few years. Enveloping an entire container within a conductive fabric barrier in which the conductive fabric is used as a substrate for making measurements has the potential to provide for more robust tamper detection versus conventional sealing methods, which only provide for tamper detection at the point of normal access. To detect tamper, the resistances between various points on the fabric are measured using a network of managed measurement nodes. A penetration through the barrier would cause the measured values to change and a tamper event to be signaled. Current work on the whole-container seal is focused on producing a prototype which will be deployed for a field trial at Savannah River National Laboratory and undergo a vulnerability review at Sandia National Laboratories. This paper will focus on updating the community on the technological maturation of the conductive fabric seal, and it will explore other potential application spaces for a conductive fabric seal.