Proposal for Container Yard Management

Samvith Technologies317, Abhishree Complex, Opp Star India Bazaar, Satellite, Ahmedabad- 380015Ph no : (079) 4032 2219Email : [email protected] Website: www.samvith.com

Proposal

ForRFID based CONTAINER YARDMANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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Issues

A Yard is the critical interchange

point between manufacturing,

distribution, and transportation.

Failures in yard operations do have a

costly ripple effect across the systems they support.

Problems such as line shutdowns, theft, late deliveries, high demurrage costs, trailer shortages,

and spoiled cargo are just a few of the problems that can result from yard failures.

These problems are addressed through manual methods such as performing routine yard checks,

logging information about arriving and departing trailers at the gate, and recording each trailer

move within the yard.

Causes

Having up-to-the minute location and status information about yard equipment and parking slots

is essential to ensure smooth operations.

Manual processes lend themselves to data entry errors and tend to be untimely.

To compensate for unreliable information, companies typically keep a buffer stock of yard

equipment on hand to prevent equipment shortages.

This, in turn, leads to greater yard congestion, higher equipment expense, reduced equipment

utilization, and higher labor expenses associated with managing more equipment.


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The yard management software has a positive effect on reducing the severity of common yard

problems, but even the most advanced software solutions are subject to error if they rely solely

on manual data input.

In a nutshell

Business Need

• Bottlenecks in real-time location of containers, leading to inefficient business processes

• Inoperable planning, resulting in heavy congestion in the container terminals causing

delays

• Underutilization of terminal capacity, due to lack of visibility of empty storage slots,

leading to loss of revenue

Our Solution

• A financially viable solution for automatically locating, tracking, and inventorying of

containers within a closed loop container terminal operation

• Web-enabled container tracking and monitoring system providing access to end

customers of the container terminal and with real-time information about the containers at

remote locations.

• Accurate and real-time data using a combination of advanced technologies like RFID,

GPS and GSM/GPRS


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Business Benefits

• Real time tracking of pallets and containers within the terminal

• Notify security and management personnel, when unscheduled movements occur

• Reduce cost and time for check-in and check-out as containers and pallets enter and leave

the terminal

• Total container visibility

• Full process control of container movement within the facility

• Reduces overall cost of operations

Solution

With RFID providing real-time visibility of all your yard activities, managing yard operations

becomes an integral part of your supply chain management practice which enables you to:

• Speed up gate processing

• Centralize appointment booking

• Manage your docks more effectively

• Clear up choke points

• Link with ERP, WMS and TMS

• Optimize switcher moves


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Characteristics of an Enterprise class RFID platform

• Configurability

• Scalability for Future Growth

• 24/7 Availability

• Robustness

• Seamless Integration of real-world data and events with enterprise services

• Methodology for Selecting RFID app’s

• Measuring process improvements

System Implementation Plan

Phase I

ID In/Out

• Gate location identification and mapping with auto time stamp.

• Real time info of assets and slots matrics

• Some manual entries for slots and time lag fields

• Low capex and faster ROI.


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All cargo/containers are tagged with advanced RF enabled sensors (Tag) when they enter the

ports boundary. The port boundary is implanted with RF based radio beckons (Location

Antenna), which can read/write to the container tags, to uniquely locate their position in two-

dimensional plane. In addition to locate their position, the RF based technology also helps any

vehicle mounted/personal PDA to navigate to the location (Vehicle Mount Computer). This is

very similar to a portable metal-detector where the location of the cargo/container is pinpointed

on a two dimensional plane.

Phase II

Real Time Location system (RTLS)

• Uses RFID antenna web design to cover yard profile

• Can be used with GPS for triangular location fixing with +/- 5 mtr accuracy

• Completely automated slot management and movement forecast application possible.


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Active RFID

• Long Range (100+m)

• Data Rich

• Logic on tag

• Two-way communications

Reader

100+m

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To “System”


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Communication Config


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System Advantages

• Absence of Line of Sight

• Contact less - No wear and tear

• Writable - 10,000 to 1 million times

• Variety of Read Ranges - Location Tracking – Large Read Range

• Data Capacity - Store a unique identifier – increased network traffic

• System can be installed and run independently without relying on communication

network.

• Flexible access modes: support GSM modem and message gateway access modes

simultaneously, even customized message gateway access mode.

• Hardware installation and maintenance are simple. Software is easy to use.

System features

• Long reading range: tags can be detected within 50 meter range. There is no need to

slide cards or get into a small required area to make sure tag is detected. All

processing is automatic. We can see benefits clearly at rush hours.

• Anti-collision: up to 200 tags can be detected simultaneously.

• Support identification of fast moving objects with speed up to 200 kilometers.

• Work at globally free 2.45GHz ISM band.

• Applied channel isolation technology, no interferences between equipments.

• Customized microwave work modes, adjustable transmission power.

• Ultra-low power consumption and tag can work normally for more than five years.

• Anti-jamming capability, tolerance of interfering sources at the scene.

• Easy installation with built in antenna.


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Salient Software Features

• Samvith’s application is a browser-based, enterprise software application

which uses a powerful middleware engine to process the tag reads based on

pre-defined user rules. Tags are enrolled in the software which can include

unique historical data and schedules for inspections.

• Tag data is collected and presented as read on a screen when logged. The

software was easily interfaced to direct tag reads to the enterprise inventory

system at the database level, thereby improving the utility of the existing

enterprise system.

• Tag reads are also filtered against the pre-defined rule base for alarming.

Alarms or exception reporting can include emails or wireless messages to

address a particular condition

• Automatic and dynamic inventory counts are managed.

• Aggregate reports are available on-demand for containers (by type) and

locations.

• Also available in the system is an integrated digital video storage capability

automatically linked to each tag read. By clicking the tag transaction, stored

digital video of the tag event such as the container’s entry or exit is displayed.


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ROI Case study in Chinese Yard

• Eliminated search for wrong positioned containers 4 time permonth

• Eliminated loss of about 8 containers in transit per year

• Reduced the yard forklift leasing during peak volume by 50%

• Improved shipping accuracy close to 100%

• Eliminated 1 hour yard checks per day

• Eliminated manual record and paper work

• ROI within 1 year


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Company Profile

Samvith technologies was founded by a team of some of the most experienced IT

engineers, marketing professionals and innovators in the industry representing more than

40 years of combined experience. Samvith focuses beyond compliance to design and

implement solutions that satisfy mandates and creates value for organizations. Samvith

team deploys solutions with the confidence and certainty that only comes from their

combination of "in the trenches" experience and high-level systems understanding. Our

offerings are characterized by global partnerships and information best practices that

straddle the physical and electronic worlds.

Samvith believes that a properly designed solution can create a value-generating

proposition that works for you. Successful implementation of the right solution can

sometimes be challenging, that's why Samvith assembled a team of the best and brightest

in the industry who were involved in some of the largest RFID initiatives to date,

including development of the world's first RFID based animal information management

system , enterprise solutions for Farms, RFID solution for aquatic animal breeding and

education program, online catalogue enabled digitization of manuscripts, E-learning

programs for international students and the move to integrated PDS system for state

governments.


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