INTELLIGENT PORTS BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS AND GIS

Major ports in the world have gone through three development stages: informationalized ports, digital ports, and intelligent ports [1]. In recent years, many coastal countries begin actively to construct intelligent ports [2, 3]. With the popularization and application of the Internet of Things (IoT) and using Geographic Information systems (GIS), many new Intelligent Ports has been started [4]. Intelligent Ports are urgently needed to be closely integrated with IoT and GIS in order to achieve efficient data spatially location based data sharing and stability of port services. It other words, Intelligent Ports are new generation of ports, which has a new, intelligent port infrastructure and integrated and smart management and service [5]. In this article, the informatization developments of main international ports are summarized. Then, the detail requirements of next generation Intelligent Ports are collected and analyzed. Later, the corresponding key technologies of Internet of Things and GIS are summarized. And, a kind of IntelligentPorts solution is proposed, and its main functions are designed in detail. Finally, the future development trend of Intelligent Ports is predicted.