Port of Algeciras deploys a complex comprehensive management system in its transformation as a smartport

Named SG3iEV, This centralized system for the port authority has been developed by the consulting firm IDOM, in collaboration with Virtualware.

The Port Authority of the Bay of Algeciras (APBA) manages three ports located in this area (Algeciras, Camp and The Line) and the Port of Tarifa, in the Strait of Gibraltar, and numerous infrastructures (supply networks, electrical network, security, etc.), located along this high-traffic coastal area, which place it as the first port in Spain and the fourth in Europe in terms of total cargo.

In recent years, ApBA in distraction, in collaboration with I AM, a centralized asset management system, with 3D visualization and based on geographic information management technology (GIS) of the company Esri-, to more efficiently manage all the amount of safety and maintenance information handled by port operators.

I AM, company specialized in helping port authorities transform their ports into smartports through the design and implementation of port management systems (PMS) and facility management systems in virtual environments (SG3IEV), has worked together with the APBA in the definition and implementation of this new comprehensive management system for facilities and infrastructure.

The main objective of this project “is to integrate all the support systems for port operations, including security facilities, through a single interface in a virtual environment and allowing operators to convert data into information to provide a better response to events”.

So, The SG3iEV system is also integrated with other port platforms, such as video surveillance system (SCI) and access control (SIGCA), port management (PMS) and with the simulation system for process optimization (Optiport). Through interoperability with the rest of the systems, SG3iEV is capable of representing in an advanced control room all the events that occur in the port, the relationships between them, as well as all information related to safety.

The system provides CCTV information, access control, ship management, incident management, etc; so that operators have complete insight and knowledge, without having to access each of the systems separately.

Added to this is the intelligent selection and control of cameras, depending on the different security events that occur in the port facilities, as well as planning evacuation routes, security camera monitoring, facility maintenance, inter alia.

The Spanish company has also collaborated with IDOM on this project. Virtualware, specialized in virtual reality, augmented and artificial intelligence, whose solution also includes a 3D model of the Bay of Algeciras that is shown on a video wall, in configuration 2×3 with screens 55 inches, so that operators can view system information together, improving the operations and security of the port infrastructure.

According to the data provided, Since its installation and operation, the results have been very positive., reducing incidents of unauthorized intrusion in offices; opening of alternative traffic route due to traffic jam warning or dispatch of maintenance team due to camera failure, with savings of 35% of the time spent solving them, and of 25% in costs associated with these tasks.