Port Digitalization with Open Data: Challenges, Opportunities, and Integrations

Filina-Dawidowicz

2021

Sensors

Currently, seaports are actively searching for methods and ways to improve their operational efficiency. Digitalization is considered as one of the main directions of current ports’ development. Ports’ digitalization levels are varied and may depend on different factors, including port size, traditions, turnover and handled cargo type, etc. Ports often face decision-making challenges related to assessment of their digitization level and choice of development directions. The article aims to develop a methodology to evaluate ports’ digitalization level. A marketing research tool was used to collect the data needed for the analysis. A mathematical model allowing simulations is proposed and a case study of 30 ports located in the Baltic, North and Mediterranean Seas regions is explored. Based on conducted calculations, a ranking of analysed ports considering their digitalization level was created. The ports were compared within groups of small, medium-sized and large ports. It was estimated that the digitalization level in small and medium-sized ports is about 30% lower than the level of large seaports. The research results may be of interest to seaports striving to assess their level of digitalization and choose the best digital improvement solutions.

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ports Digitalization Level Evaluation

Filina-Dawidowicz

2021

Sensors

“…In order to benefit from information that is already available (1), data from existing systems, legacy systems and systems that support different standards, should be converted to a common format [6].…”

Section: Case Study-port Of the Futurementioning

confidence: 99%

FLINT: Flows for the Internet of Things

et al. 2021

New protocols and technologies are continuously competing in the Internet of Things. This has resulted in a fragmented landscape that complicates the integration of different solutions. Standardization efforts try to avoid this problem, however within a certain ecosystem, multiple standards still require integration to enable trans-sector innovation. Moreover, existing devices require transformations to fit in an ecosystem. In this paper, we discuss several integration problems in the field of Low Power Wide Area Networks in the context of the Port of the Future and propose a new distributed platform architecture, called FLINT. FLINT is a framework to program flexible and configurable flows on a per device basis. A flow is constructed from fine-grained components, called adapters. Due to the modularity of an adapter, users can easily integrate existing software. We evaluated FLINT based on five levels of interoperability and show that FLINT can be used to interconnect non-interoperable systems and protocols on every level. We have also implemented FLINT in a container based environment and demonstrated that a basic configuration has a 99% forwarding rate of 17.500 513-byte packets per second, showing that the architecture can deliver good performance.

“…Reference [23] explains that open data is not only global data collected and opened by the government, but also includes data shared among individual citizens and industries with the government and public. Related with this paper experiment's domain, reference [24] analyses the current and future situation of open data in Smart Ports. It summarises the benefits of using open data for enabling typical applications in the port operations (e.g., truck gate appointments, vessel calls data management, yard operation scheduling or hazardous material tracking within the port premises), helping coordinate port operations to deal with unexpected delays caused by city issues like traffic congestion and a fluid exchange information between the port community and the port vicinity.…”

Section: Open Data In Smart Ports and Smart Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framework and Methodology for Establishing Port-City Policies Based on Real-Time Composite Indicators and IoT: A Practical Use-Case

Lacalle

Belsa

Vaño

et al. 2020

Sensors

During the past few decades, the combination of flourishing maritime commerce and urban population increases has made port-cities face several challenges. Smart Port-Cities of the future will take advantage of the newest IoT technologies to tackle those challenges in a joint fashion from both the city and port side. A specific matter of interest in this work is how to obtain reliable, measurable indicators to establish port-city policies for mutual benefit. This paper proposes an IoT-based software framework, accompanied with a methodology for defining, calculating, and predicting composite indicators that represent real-world phenomena in the context of a Smart Port-City. This paper envisions, develops, and deploys the framework on a real use-case as a practice experiment. The experiment consists of deploying a composite index for monitoring traffic congestion at the port-city interface in Thessaloniki (Greece). Results were aligned with the expectations, validated through nine scenarios, concluding with delivery of a useful tool for interested actors at Smart Port-Cities to work over and build policies upon.