Speaking to Port Strategy at TOC Europe 2018, Mr Lund explained that visual technology — like optical character recognition — has existed “for quite some time”, but until lately, it has “really only been used for licence plate, containers, rail and train identification”.
Now, artificial intelligence (AI) can be integrated into vision technology being deployed at sites all over the world, he said.
“As an example, traditional CCTV cameras were simply used for security measures,” Mr Lund noted.
“Now we are actually able to automate CCTV in such a way with AI so that we can automatically identify assets coming on to the terminal, if it’s a truck, if it’s a car, what cargo they are hauling, where that asset is on the terminal and what needs to be done with it.
“From the video feed within the CCTV system, we are automatically able to identify assets and cargoes, know where they are in the terminal and allow data exchange with the terminal operating system and other third-party systems.”
