Leveraging IoT and prediction techniques to monitor COVID-19 restrictions in port terminals

Abstract

[EN] Social distance restrictions have posed several challenges for the management of logistic nodes even in open spaces like a maritime port terminal. The Internet of Things combined with the simulation of supply chains provide the perfect breeding ground for devising innovative tools to help ports observe those restrictions. The objective of this paper is to devise such a tool based on research open results, proposing a clear architecture and use-case to be leveraged by maritime ports. Internet of Things techniques such as gathering heterogeneous data through a context broker, managing the Big Data generated and applying innovative models over that data set the foundations of the proposed system. The actual tool has been achieved as a result, together with a clear plan on future works that may build upon it.