Intelligent system in container terminal for speed-up handling process

The growth of economic in some country especially in developing country has impact to movement of goods to deliver or export/import. Most of the movement is using container either land or sea transport. This research presents an intelligent system of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in a container terminal for speed up handling process then more container to serve. A new business process is proposed for a container management system operational flow. The intelligent system used a technology which is Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) incorporated to ICT for the purpose of identifying driver, vehicle, e-seal, and container number. The RFID middleware as the key point manages all the information between Gate Checker (GC) and Container Terminal Management System (CTMS), as well as RFID reader. Middleware receives information requested by GC from reader and is then verified by CTMS database. A new technique for RFID tag filtering and a novel algorithm are introduced for effective processing and communication between CTMS and GC. The proposed system was tested at receiving station of a private container terminal to check the performance. The clearance time reduce significantly compare to previous process, before is 248.1 second per container in average to become 57 second per container.

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