To improve the security of ports international mandatory and voluntary programs have been implemented and launched as a response to the growing threat of terrorism to also secure vessels and cargo. Security measures and technologies are – besides the cost-effective protection of people and assets – expected to avoid negative impacts on the related processes or even to enhance process efficiency in order to create a return on investment (ROI) of security expenditure. Global commerce is totally dependent on the movement of shipping containers, which carry about 95 percent of the world’s international cargo in terms of value. Due to growing global trade volume, shipping resources are scarce in terms of terminal and transport capacities.

Our solution

Standard systems & solutions and integrated process solutions

Technologies as intelligent video, smart cards, screening and scanning, RFID, command and control and intelligent detection are part of a vast range of our security solutions, covering protection of territory, vessels, people, cargo / containers, information, and processes:

Command and control / C4I

Command and Control / C4I: Based on the experience gained from the successful implementation of many medium – and large-scale integrated security projects, Siemens has developed a new, service-based solution: the Integrated C4I approach (Command, Control, Communication, Computers and Intelligence), using functional analysis and detailed design, that takes the operational concept of the customer and translates it into a technical reality.

Terminal gate and container security solutions

• Detection devices detect nuclear material, which might be part of a weapon or could be used to produce a nuclear weapon.

• Three dimensional X-ray machines, thermal imaging, air sampling and swipes are used in many major ports to verify the content of containers.

Intelligent video

• Wide-area surveillance and video analytics: with wide-area visualization an entire security site can be monitored from a single, unified view. The command ddisplay software provides a static satellite or topographic image and plots camera locations and events over this image. It also provides the interface for retrieving camera streams and reports.

• Multi-sensor interfaces are based on open architecture and allows easy interface with current and future security and site management needs. This allow more flexibility based upon coverage area, environmental conditions, detection quality, and available sensor technologies.

• Real-time sensor analysis provides accurate, real-time information to command field personnel. The intelligent video surveillance capability of the sensor analysis module software is responsible for taking the video input from cameras and applying intelligence to it in order to distinguish events from the normal background of the camera view.

• Smart policy management system reduces interpretation errors, which results in enhanced security and more productive use of time and resources. The policy management server is responsible for collecting, applying policy to, and distributing event data from cameras and other input devices. It also provides access to administration and reports.

IT-backbones as a basis for integrated security

• The key to successful security management in ports is "interoperability" and data management, enabled by a professional security-IT-planning and backbone concept.

• Multi-business-stakeholder environments like ports differentiate between the need for core platforms of open communication, "interoperability support" and requirement of the stakeholders to develop their own security and communication environment.

Highlights

Scanning & detection port of Rotterdam

• Nuclear detection at 40 gates

• Container security device / RFID-reading

• Optical character recognition (OCR)

• Data management and integration

• Command and control for data dispatching and incident management

• Intervention management