Innovation
AT THE FOREFRONT OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
Infoport’s R&D&I vision is to be a benchmark in the development of disruptive products and services for the global logistics-port sector, leading the digital transformation towards a model of efficiency, security and sustainability of supply chains with cutting-edge technology.
Infoport’s R&D&I policy is based on the following principles:
- To develop innovative projects in the field of digital transformation of transportation, based on environmentally sustainable, economically feasible and socially inclusive models.
- Promote and strengthen R&D&I activities as a differential competitiveness factor.
- Promote internal talent through a culture of innovation in the company.
- Attract external talent, facilitating the incorporation of new workers of value to the organization.
- Exploit the avenues of collaboration with technological partners, through links that allow the company’s innovative capacity to be multiplied.
- To drive innovation in collaboration with clients and facilitating agents, with the aim of developing new disruptive business models.
- Adequately disseminate and preserve the knowledge generated.
- Promote a technology watch system to identify opportunities and challenges for the company and detect innovation needs.
- Protect the results of the innovation process, properly and ethically managing intellectual and industrial property.
- Comply with all applicable requirements.
- Contribute to the effectiveness and continuous improvement of the R&D Management System.
ACIO
The objective of the ACIO project is to improve and unify the physical and logical access control of people, vehicles and goods in organizations from the perspective of security and usability, through the combination of several mechanisms, such as innovative identification and authentication technologies, tracking of vehicles and goods in transit within restricted areas to detect possible anomalous behavior or dynamic management of roles and capabilities. This allows improving the efficiency and fluidity of access control and monitoring in real time, using information from within the organization and from other external systems.
ACIO proposes the implementation of contextual access control systems, which adapt the security level and mechanisms to the particular conditions of each environment.
The project is funded by the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINETUR), within the Plan for Innovation and Technical and Scientific Research 2013-2016 (TSI-100201-2013-2013-50), supported with the Celtic-Plus seal.
Asignat
ASIGNAT will introduce an innovative impact on the road transport segment, through the new enabling technologies of digital twins and machine learning and the development of tools that facilitate better operational decision making, such as the automated allocation of transport services or the updated calculation of the Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) of a transport.
The ASIGNAT platform will optimize the use of the fleet of land transport companies, avoiding delays in deliveries and receptions and reducing fuel consumption.
As a result, the following are expected to be obtained:
- Planning tools that process transportation data in real time
- Digital twin model of ground transportation fleets
- Machine learning algorithms for trip planning and ETA calculation
- Data analytics and information visualization for decision making -Data analytics and information visualization for decision making
The action has been co-financed by AVI and the European Union through the ERDF Program of the Valencian Community 2014-2020.
B2T2
This project consists of the development of a product supported by blockchain technology for the tracking and tracing of movements of different types of assets (shipments, consignments, cargo units, transport units…) as a certain operation is executed and throughout its life cycle.
B2T2 provides a reliable way to track all events occurring in a transport along its journey, between origin and destination and within logistic nodes, such as ports.
This project has received funding from EIT Digital under the Innovation Factory program.
Cybercontainer
The purpose of the Cybercontainer project is the development of a management platform for the traceability of maritime containers and their status variables, based on the modeling and development of virtual agents in the cloud, which contemplate the multiple monitoring parameters and integrate the data obtained from different sensors, allowing their analysis and exploitation, through the application of cyber-physical systems technologies and the concept of software-defined machines. All this in an open and interoperable environment that facilitates the management of the different agents in the supply chain.
The parameters to be monitored in a sea container are very varied, from the location to the regulatory status of the goods depending on the territory in which it is located, including physical parameters such as temperature, humidity, internal atmosphere or vibrations to which it is subjected. For each type of container or even for each transport, given its traceability requirements, it may be of interest to have only a certain subset of variables, which determines the nature of the sensor to be installed and its interoperability requirements.
The Cybercontainer project solves the problem of the availability and sharing of information about the traceability of the goods between the agents involved in the container supply chain, through the development of processing elements in the cloud that on the one hand are responsible for interacting with the physical sensors, extending their communication and processing capacity, and on the other hand allows the development of different high-level services for user interaction, such as alarm management, statistical and comparative analysis, tracking and historical evolution, or trend and predictive analysis.
This project has been co-funded by the Ministry of Energy, Tourism and Digital Agenda, within the National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation 2013-2016 (file: TSI-100505-2016-14).
Fleet on lan
The objective of FLEET ON LAN is the development of a new minimum cost technological solution to automate and optimize the management and operation of the fleet of a land container transport company.
As part of the FLEET ON LAN project, a transport management application has been developed to process transport orders, manage traffic, send and print documents in vehicles and bill for trips made. In addition, the Gateway VAN device has been implemented, an on-board equipment that turns the vehicle into another node of the company’s local network, and a monitoring tool that allows remote management and maintenance of the network of Gateway VAN on-board devices.
The project has been financed by the Plan Avanza 2010.
Gesport 4.0
The GESPORT 4.0 project consists of a planned research with the aim of evaluating the applicability of blockchain technology around the containerized freight industry. The project has proposed the redesign of the current supply chain process under blockchain technology, at a conceptual and technical level, focusing on the integration with third-party systems, all with the aim of generating greater efficiency and competitiveness in this ecosystem.
The validation of this technology has been carried out in the Port of Valencia through a proof of concept to evaluate the applicability of blockchain networks to execute the different transactions that take place in ports, with the aim of optimizing processes and thus facilitating the movement of goods.
This project has been co-financed by the Valencian Agency for Innovation (AVI), within the call for grants for the strengthening and development of the Valencian Innovation System for the improvement of the productive model (2018).
Helix 6
The HELIX 6 project is the improved version of Infoport’s standardized framework for the development of the latest generation of web and multiplatform applications, with the aim of simplifying and speeding up software development, drastically reducing time and increasing security.
HELIX 6 will facilitate and simplify the creation of new applications and their maintenance through powerful features such as back-end code automation from an integrated code generator, new front-end templates with updated components, cross-platform deployment and improved security.
PLECTRA
Through the PLECTRA project, a real-time information system has been developed that allows road transport companies to optimally plan the traffic of their vehicle fleet.
PLECTRA develops and provides traffic optimization tools and algorithms, an environmental accounting tool, a system of monitoring indicators and alarms, and an information system to publish and share trip information with business partners and other agents in the supply chain so that they have a real-time view of the status of trips.
The project is subsidized by the Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial (IVACE) and co-financed by FEDER funds.
Securylink
The SECURYLINK project aims to improve the security of port supply chain processes through a real-time value chain monitoring and risk management platform for process safety management.
SECURYLINK designs the real-time risk analysis engine and the process simulator and defines a Safety Management System model based on the ISO 28000 standard. In addition, the development of the real-time supply chain process monitoring system and an active scorecard (CMA) to control risk and key performance indicators is carried out.
The project was approved by the Conselleria de Industria de la Generalitat Valenciana.
Watch
The objective of the VIGIA project is to develop a federated platform, based on blockchain, artificial vision and deep learning, for the integral control of access to different industrial areas and the intelligent tracking of vehicles.
The VIGIA project provides port-logistic communities with a new solution for the integral control of people and vehicles at the accesses to industrial areas, facilitating compliance with the requirements of the port authorities and the law on occupational risk prevention, as well as improving operations and physical safety in the movement of vehicles.
The action has been co-financed by AVI and the European Union through the ERDF Program of the Valencian Community 2014-2020.