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Container Terminal Operating System
Where a container terminal's systems run: the terminal operating system in the data centre, equipment control on cranes and yard vehicles, and gates with automation.
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What this diagram shows
- Cranes and yard vehicles get work orders on board
- OCR at the gate reads container and truck numbers
- The terminal keeps running on a local data centre
Prompt used
Deployment of a container terminal: the terminal operating system (Navis N4-style) runs in the on-site data centre with a database cluster. Quay cranes and rubber-tyred gantry cranes have onboard terminals connected by private LTE. Yard trucks have GPS. Automated gates have OCR cameras and weighbridges. An EDI server exchanges messages with shipping lines and the port community system.
Mermaid code
flowchart TB
subgraph DC[Terminal Data Centre]
TOS[Terminal Operating System]
DB[(Database Cluster)]
EDI[EDI Server]
ECS[Equipment Control Server]
end
subgraph QUAY[Quay]
QC1[Quay Crane 1 terminal]
QC2[Quay Crane 2 terminal]
end
subgraph YARD[Yard]
RTG[RTG Crane terminals]
YT[Yard Truck GPS units]
end
subgraph GATE[Automated Gate]
OCR[OCR Cameras]
WB[Weighbridge]
KIOSK[Driver Kiosk]
end
LTE[Private LTE Network]
TOS --- DB
TOS --- ECS
TOS --- EDI
ECS --- LTE
LTE --- QC1
LTE --- QC2
LTE --- RTG
LTE --- YT
OCR --- TOS
WB --- TOS
KIOSK --- TOS
EDI --- EXT[Shipping Lines and Port Community System]Related templates
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