Services
Six lines cut from one sheet of foam
BOXAVIATION LLC designs computer integrated systems for equipment protection and transit logistics. The six service lines below are engineered as one family: a case, a tracker, a sensor network, a warehouse control layer, a telemetry pipeline and a field support plan that all speak the same identifiers.
Custom Transit Case Engineering
The case is the first layer of protection and the easiest place to lose an argument with physics. Our engineers measure the instrument, model the shock path and design a cavity that cradles the equipment without gripping it. Foam density, cut depth and lid clearance are chosen together, because a cavity that is too tight transfers vibration and one that is too loose allows the instrument to move inside its own protection. Hardware is selected against a stated cycle count: butterfly latches, recessed hinges, ball corners, stacking bosses and shock mount feet are cycled on a bench rig before they enter a design.
Every case is built around the route it will travel. A rack case for air freight needs different wall construction from a rolling case that will be loaded into a pickup bed on a gravel road. We agree the loading pattern, the number of handovers and the storage environment before drawing begins, then document the result in an acceptance test that records latch cycles, seal pressure and foam fit against the agreed revision. Customers receive that file with the first case and it becomes the reference for later service.
Fleet Tracking Integration
Tracking is only useful when the identifier on the screen matches the identifier on the lid. We begin with device ownership: every tracker, beacon and gateway receives a registry entry with its serial number, harness route, power source and installation photograph. Vehicles, trailers, ground support equipment and individual cases share one naming scheme, so a shipment is never known by two different codes in two different systems. The installation itself is planned around the places where antennas fail, such as shielded cargo bays and metal-lined hangars.
On the software side we connect the tracking feed to the dispatch tools your team already uses rather than asking them to learn another portal. Geofence definitions are written with the people who know the yard, and alert routing is agreed in advance so that a night shift driver receives a message in the right channel. When a device goes silent we treat it as a defined event with an owner, not as background noise that everyone scrolls past.
Cargo Sensor Networks
Location tells you where a case is. Sensors tell you what happened to it. We design networks of shock, tilt, temperature, humidity and door-state sensors fitted inside or beneath the case, calibrated against recorded baselines so that a threshold means something specific to that instrument. A calibration instrument that is rated for a gentle ride and a field radio that expects abuse should not share alert limits, and they do not share them in our designs.
The network is planned for battery life and for radio reality. Where a case travels inside a steel container, we design a store-and-forward path rather than pretending that a single gateway will reach through the wall. Every sensor event is tied to a timestamp, a case identifier and a custody segment, which means a shock alert can be read in the context of who was carrying the case and which leg of the route it was on.
Warehouse Control Systems
Protected equipment needs staging rules that general inventory software does not carry. Our warehouse control work models the dock, the shelf and the handover so that a case is never parked where a forklift turns, where sunlight reaches it or where a driver can collect it without a signature. We add custody states to the storage logic and connect them to the warehouse management system you already run, which avoids the familiar problem of two records that disagree about whether a case left the building.
The control layer also supports the people on the floor. Scan points are placed where hands are actually free, labels are printed at the size that reads from a standing position, and staging lanes are named for destinations rather than for internal departments. Where a customer runs several sites, the same control model is applied with site specific exceptions written down rather than discovered during an audit.
Route Telemetry Pipelines
Vehicles, beacons and internal sensors produce data in different formats and at different rates. Our pipelines accept those streams, validate them, align them to a common clock and retain them in a form that answers real questions. A damage claim, a late delivery dispute or a year end audit all need the same underlying record, and that record is only trustworthy if the ingestion path is documented and the gaps are visible rather than smoothed away.
Dashboards built on top of the pipeline are designed for exceptions. A missed handover, a shock event above the rated limit, a case that waited too long at a transfer point and a route deviation all surface as named items with an owner and a suggested action. We deliberately avoid walls of raw points, because a display that requires interpretation under pressure will be ignored by the people who need it most.
Field Service Support
The field crew decides whether an integrated system is respected or quietly bypassed. Our support work begins before the first shipment with a spares plan, printed repacking instructions that fit inside the lid, and a diagnostic line that is staffed during transit hours. We train the receiving teams on inspection points and give them a short path to a real person when something looks wrong, rather than a ticket queue that closes without an answer.
When a case is damaged or a sensor fails, we help identify the cause before it repeats across a fleet. That means reading the telemetry alongside the physical evidence, updating the foam plan or the hardware schedule where necessary and issuing a revised acceptance record. Support is treated as part of the design, so the same case file that governed the build also governs the repair.
How a program runs
Every program follows the same four stages, whether it covers one case or all six service lines. The stages are short by design so that feedback from the shop floor reaches the drawing before it is expensive to change.
Survey
We photograph and measure the equipment, inspect the current route and interview the crews who load and open the cases. The output is a short written brief naming the failure modes worth fixing.
Design
Case geometry, sensor placement, tracking hardware and control logic are drafted together and reviewed against the brief. A physical sample is built where the fit is uncertain.
Build and test
The case is built, the devices are installed to the registry standard and the acceptance test is run. Results are recorded against the agreed revision and shared with the customer.
Support
The first shipments are watched closely, the telemetry is reviewed against the acceptance record, and any correction is folded back into the case file before routine operation begins.
Tell us what travels, where it goes and which handover worries you most. We will answer with a short brief and a named engineer.
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