Addressing today's challenges with the latest positioning technology GNSS / INS for ports and terminals

The #logistics landscape is complex and challenging with constant change. Cargo volumes are changing, infrastructure, operations, vehicles, and processes are evolving over time. When evaluating positioning technology, this is not an exception. Satellite receivers and inertial systems have become more accurate (decimeter and centimeter-level), reliable, flexible and configurable than ever before. The age-old belief that #positioning requires an expensive infrastructural overhaul is now outdated and invalid. Yet hardware and technology used in, for example, container terminals to track vehicles and accurately provide a position at all times, is often outdated, complex, or expensive.?

Terminals have many challenges to overcome. Including many various infrastructure installations and layouts, mixed fleets of equipment and vehicles used, different types of configurations, and multiple needs per terminal or customer. For the successful installation of high-accuracy GPS/GNSS positioning in the port environment, there are also additional challenges related to satellite signals. Users of satellite positioning solutions frequently deal with phenomena such as multipath (reflection of signals), security concerns (replicated unsecured signals), jamming (disruption of signals), but also obstacles, safety of life, accurate output, the integrity of a product, and trustworthiness of the data.?

A standalone GNSS/Inertial Navigation System (#INS) receiver – positioning solution – can cover almost all areas (there are always some areas where a hybrid solution, GNSS working with other systems is the best option) of a terminal nowadays. Septentrio is a worldwide leader in providing highly accurate positioning systems for critical applications that operate in challenging environments. Its portfolio allows multiple options for various operations: whether it is used for real-time tracking of vehicles or containers, record keeping or for any other automation/autonomous solution. Reliability and high accuracy mean, in practice, users witness fewer errors in equipment and container positioning, resulting in fewer manual corrections. This is the main driver for investment in #GNSS and INS systems.??

Septentrio has proven to solve detailed industry challenges with a comprehensive product range and a special fit for logistics operations. Every system is standalone and can be easily mounted on any type of vehicle. Whether you want to integrate a board in your own sensor stack, or simply mount a IP68/69 rugged box on a vehicle for a retrofit upgrade, both options are possible. No intensive installations nor any changes to the infrastructure are needed.??

In this recent technical paper about GNSS positioning for port terminals, Pekka Leikas from Kalmar and Septentrio explain how GNSS/INS is used in today's ports to modernize, automate and improve terminal efficiency.???

If you want to know more, send me a DM or get the recording of this webinar held in March?about GNSS solutions for logistics: New era of Positioning Technology for Terminals together with Julian Galvis Galvis, VP Sales Marine & Port at IDENTEC SOLUTIONS and Jan Cuppens , port advisor at Cycling Farmer and former VP Global engineering DP World?