project container tracking and management system
DESCRIPTION
Chittagong Port is one the prominent ports in south Asia. It is the largest sea port of Bangladesh.It plays an important role in the import-export trading. In 2008 the port handled approximately 1million tonnes of containers. Moreover, the rapid increase of industrialization in this country boastthe import–export trading and therefore the seaport activities.The traditional system absorbs a huge amount of time from the quayside container handling to theclearance in the exit gate. Consequently, the rapid increase in international trading via theChittagong port may cause a problem in handling containers in the port territory. Hence, thehandling of these export-import activities, namely container management, demands asophisticated and efficient system to manage them.The feasibility study on the technology considering time and cost of the infrastructure to be buildleads the project to choose the fast and cheap technology of RFID to track and control themanagement of container, cranes and internal trucks of the port. The instant access of the RFIDcode and its transferability through the proprietary wireless communication channel pinches anidea of inter operability and accessibility of the read data from the respected container and others.Since the seaport is highly cooperated with other ports- seaports, airports and land ports - theinformation about the export-import trading and their trade monitoring is a crux for the portauthority. The better means of communication can help an organization manifold ways –information availability, tracking and monitoring and interpersonal communication etc. The ideaso far generated demanded the use of web application to build a suitable platform for the stackholders of this organization.Web based services are exploited in this project design with the help of RFID system.Furthermore, the real time data are collected through the RFID reader, which is then tagged on thecontainer before placing in the process queue, and processed and monitored by the webapplication. The web services will be designed in a standard way so that the authorized user canaccess the service through various web interfaces.Using this system ships, cargos, and trucks which are moving in and out of the ports, are readilymanaged and monitored. In addition, this system will also ensure the availability of real-timeinformation about vessel arrival/departure, cargo, port facilities and decision-making through webservice interface to the clients (External user).TRANSCRIPT
Project- Container Tracking and Management System (CTMS)
Jalal Uddin Ahammad
Container Tracking Management System(CTMS):
Major Features ◦ RFID tags will be labelled on the inbound and
outbound container.◦ Management and control of internal and external
trucks will be ensured.◦ Storage yard supervision.◦ Tracking and Managing containers using RFID
system.◦ Remote access of the system through standard
web interface/web services.
Introduction
Ensure the efficient and robust operations on container management.
Increase the availability rate of operational resources.
Reduce the service time as well as ship waiting time.
Increase the turn around time of vessels and through put per day.
Cost reduction
Business Objectives
Use Case diagram
Attach RFID Tag on container
CTMS
Container Type; Shipment ID
EPC
EPCRFID tag
Quayside Employee
Container
Allocate crane and load internal Truck
CTMS
Crane
Truck
Quayside Crane Controller
Quay side Location
Truck Operator
Crane and Truck availability check
Request
R
equest
Quayside Employee
Load container & guided to client site
CTMSExternal truck
RFID reader
Storage Yard
Storage Yard Employee
Gate House
EPC Network
CTMS
Web Browser
http
Internet
SOA
P
Client’s Application
Accessing CTMS through web
Potential Pitfalls Entirely EPC based system.
A new and huge investment.
Training employees.
Quantity Vs RFID tagging cost.
High level network security.
Object oriented model for container terminal distributed simulation, Maurizio Bielli, Azedine Boulmakoul, Mohamed Rida.
Web Services as a Solution for Maritime Port Information Interoperability, Pedro Teixeira Isaías and Fernanda Maria Duarte Macedo.
Dynamic crane deployment in container storage yards, Chuqian Zhang a, Yat-wah Wan a, Jiyin Liu a,*, Richard J. Linn.
A survey of berth allocation and quay crane scheduling problems in container terminals, Christian Bierwirth *, Frank Meisel.
EPC Network Architecture, Kin Seong Leong, Mun Leng Ng, Daniel
W.Engels, Auto-ID Center.
Reference
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