While it might appear similar to a traditional dock bollard, the Smart Bollard is a step ahead with its enhanced features geared towards safety and mooring efficiency. Permanently anchored on quaysides, it comes with sensors that gauge the strain on mooring lines. By doing so, it captures the consequential structural movement from mooring line tension, providing invaluable insights to port authorities, terminal operators, and shipping vessels. This progressive dock bollard is versatile, accommodating an array of sea vessels, from container to bulk carriers.
In the past, determining the tension on mooring lines was a tough challenge. Lacking precise data, ports would typically account for the maximum mooring loads. However, during challenging weather conditions — be it towering waves, potent currents, or intense wind gusts — having an accurate reading on mooring lines is essential. Excessive strain can lead to line breakage, potentially causing vessels to break away from dock bollards, resulting in significant mishaps.
The Smart Bollard is the solution, offering on-the-spot data on mooring loads, elevating safety standards, and furnishing insights into mooring forces. Its state-of-the-art MoorControl software system delivers detailed yet easily understandable data, making the most of port facilities. As vessels evolve in size and weather patterns remain uncertain, understanding mooring strains is of utmost importance.
Ongoing supervision and data compilation through Smart Bollards refine port activities and mitigate potential risks during mooring.
For easy reference, the system's interface showcases and stores essential data such as:
System users have the flexibility to add new users, set alarms, and assimilate the data into alternate platforms using the in-built API.
Whether through ethernet or wirelessly, the Smart Bollard offers diverse connectivity routes. Ethernet connections need a distinct switchbox for cloud data transfers, while wireless modes necessitate an on-location gateway.
Once transferred to the cloud (utilizing AWS), data becomes accessible on our portal. This portal also features weather and tide data, and can manage a ship database. For smoother integration with existing systems, our platform offers a standard API.
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Our partnership with the Port of Rotterdam birthed the Smart Bollard concept. As part of a pilot project, the Port of Rotterdam introduced the Smart Bollard at the ECT Delta Terminal's quay. This initiative resonates with the port's aim to elevate efficiency through digitisation. Upcoming strategies include broadening the Smart Bollard's reach across the Port of Rotterdam's docking areas and other ports around the world.
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