I have not been able to see the select committee report today, but I believe that when technological solutions are referred to by politicians and others, they may be alluding to an adoption of a system we use in industrial safety for HGV driver only deliveries.
Often town centre retail deliveries can only be carried out at night for access reasons. In those circumstances, the HGV driver holds the keys to the retail unit and makes the roll cage or pallet delivery under the lone worker regulations. Those regulations mean that remote monitoring of the driver's safety is required. That monitoring is carried out by having " LTE coded tags" attached to the Cages or pallets that inform those remotely monitoring the vehicle, driver and it's cargo continually as to whether the cages are still on the vehicle or have been unloaded at any delivery point.
The above can be used to check the well being of the driver as should the removal of the cages or pallets from the vehicle at any delivery point suddenly stop then that would indicate that possibly the employee has met with an accident or security incident and assistance procedures can be initiated.
In the above, it can be seen perhaps how that system could be used to monitor goods crossing the Irish border as the information contained within the tags on the vehicles also holds what's is contained within each cage or on each pallet. That combined with the live GPS tracking of any vehicle could inform the border and excise authorise of all vehicles crossing that border and what is on them on a minute by minute basis.
The problems in the above as I view it would be that companies that use the above system link the data from the tags to their own IT stock control systems of which there are very many. Therefore to bring forward a comprehensive border monitoring system, all the above data from all the hauliers continually crossing the border would have to be fed into government IT systems operating on both sides of the border.
In the above, it would undoubtedly take several years to develop such software systems and therefore to think that such could be in place by the 31st of October is simply "pie in the sky". However, had three years ago on signing Artical Fifty the British negotiators had started from a position of Britain will leave with no deal, so lets now see if we can make things better, such systems would now be undoubtedly in place.
However, the incompetence of this Government and its numerous Brexit Secretaries ensured that would not happen.
