Automated management of maritime container terminals using internet of things and big data technologies
Farah Al Kaderi, Rim Koulali, Mohamed Rida · Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Smart City Applications · 2019
Global trade is growing steadily and the management of the transport and logistics fields is facing many challenges day after day. Container shipping is one of those areas whose management has become a crucial task because of its major role in ensuring the quality of freight transport service. In this paper, we present and describe a real-time monitoring and management system dedicated to the automatization of the maritime terminal containers management. Our proposed solution is based on using both Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data technologies in order to build a system that provides advanced features to cover different aspects of container logistics management. As the implementation of the proposed system implies using various tools and technologies, we conducted a comparative study on several technologies and tools related to IoT and Big Data in order to choose the appropriate ones. We also adopted a multi-layer architecture for the proposed system and through this paper, we will present the scope, role and tools set for every tier.