The Port of Barcelona acts as a facilitator for two of the projects that have been chosen to be subsidized in the new call for commercial phase projects of the Ports 4.0 program. These are the PortSurveyor.AI Water Sheet project, by the technology company CTRL4 ENVIRO and Gemed Soluciones, and Smart Terminal, a SaaS platform for the management of ro-ro and multi-use port terminals by Geomodel-3D Modelling Studio.
In the first case, the PortSurveyor.AI Water Sheet project by CTRL4 ENVIRO and Gemed Soluciones aims to develop a visual vessel tracking system within the port, from the entrance to the berthing or mooring point. This system is designed to complement AIS or radar information, which, once inside the port, do not have sufficient resolution to determine their own position or that of the surrounding vessels. It is a multiple tracking, multi-camera, and multi-object system, which can work with the port’s existing cameras. The system incorporates a blockchain-based security layer to ensure that the captured and displayed information has not been fraudulently edited, deleted, or added.
As for Smart Terminal, its goal is to develop a solution that integrates two key concepts: the automation and provision of intelligence to surveillance systems in terminals and port areas, and the creation of devices capable of reading identifiers of unregistered cargo, such as new cars, whether they are moving or parked. In this way, challenges derived from the lack of cargo standardization are resolved, especially in the manual identification and management of the terminal and its cargo.
Apart from these two projects in which the Port acts as a facilitator, which implies that the project will be executed in its facilities, there are two projects that have also received the support of the Port of Barcelona and have been selected to receive subsidies: Amelia, a comprehensive software to aid port management through automatic drones by Octocam-maps; and STRAIGHT, an autonomous underwater inspection system by Acerca Ingeniería Marítima.
