Your Gate
Capture vehicles, passages, container codes and stay times at your entrances and exits.
Use AI video analytics to identify container movements, vehicle flows and visible security risks early. Synaedge connects your existing cameras with continuous analysis, defined inspection tasks and the operational response paths of your terminal.
Initial position and goal
Gates, yards, cranes, quays and traffic zones interact across your port or terminal. AI video analytics identifies bottlenecks, hazards and unusual activity early and passes relevant events to the responsible teams or systems.
Capture vehicles, passages, container codes and stay times at your entrances and exits.
Make container movements, setting areas, backlogs and surface utilization visible.
Evaluate movements in crane, loading and transfer zones based on your defined rules.
Recognise people and vehicles in hazardous areas as well as visible smoke, fire and emergency situations.
Solution approach – Testable scenarios
Connect each camera view with a specific visual task, measurable quality criteria and a fixed follow-up process. The starting point is always a clearly described situation from your real terminal operation: what should be detected, under which conditions is the event relevant and who should then react?
Document entrances and exits, directions and stay times at defined checkpoints. With suitable camera quality, you can also enter visible vehicle licence plates and container codes. Connect the results to your gate, access and transport processes.
Capture container movements between gate, yard, envelope and defined gateways. You will receive visual proof of when a container passes a checkpoint or is moved between sufficiently covered areas. The video analytics complements your operational position guidance. The complete inventory and position management remains the task of your terminal operating system and further positioning systems.
Monitor lanes, waiting zones and transfer points on vehicle build-ups and long stays. Your rules report long queues, excessive dwell times, blocked lanes, vehicles outside designated waiting areas or heavily used gates. Your terminal control can thereby identify bottlenecks earlier and control the traffic and handling processes in a more targeted manner.
Set virtual zones and rules for people, vehicles, container movements and lengths of stay. Report people in controlled crane areas, vehicles outside their permitted zones and blocked transfer areas. You can also check the presence during a certain operating state and container movements outside of the areas provided. Your responsible team will receive the affected camera view.
Analyse directions of movement and critical approaches between people, trucks, reach stackers, straddle carriers and other terminal vehicles. Set the traffic and work areas to be checked. Documented events help you to evaluate risky situations and heavily used areas. The video analytics does not replace certified collision protection or prescribed vehicle assistance systems.
Monitor crane areas, container stacks, quay zones and other controlled spaces using virtual zones. Define when a stay is relevant: by area, time of day, operating status, number of people, length of stay, direction of movement or vehicle type. Your security team will receive an alert on situations that need to be checked according to your rules.
Check in defined work areas whether protective helmets, safety vests, protective clothing and other sufficiently visible equipment are worn. In the event of a defined deviation, your responsible team receives a visual alert. Camera perspective and visibility determine the recognition quality. Concealed or very small equipment cannot be reliably evaluated under all conditions.
Monitor fence lines, access points, shore areas, quay edges and security zones. Report line crossings, entry into restricted areas, movement outside defined time windows, excessive dwell times and approaches from an unexpected direction. waterside areas can be included if camera position, visibility and environmental conditions are suitable for this.
Mark containers with open doors, tipped units and clearly visible damage to inspect. Your team will receive location, time and camera view for the existing control process. Visual analysis does not replace technical or manual container inspection. Concealed, small or damage not recognizable from the camera’s perspective may remain undetected.
Check lanes, rescue routes and work areas based on a defined visible state. Report containers in spaces to be kept free, vehicles before emergency access routes, abandoned transport equipment, occupied transfer points or other visible obstacles on traffic routes. Your responsible team receives the visual context, checks the situation and arranges for the removal if necessary.
Detect movements associated with falls or people lying on the ground for an unusually long time. Your control centre or internal emergency organisation will receive the camera view and assess whether assistance is required. This helps especially in remote, rarely entered or regular working hours. The analysis supplements your emergency organisation; prescribed rescue and occupational safety measures are necessary.
Detect visible smoke and open flames in yard, transshipment areas, buildings and outdoor areas. Your responsible team receives the visual context from the affected area. The video analytics complements your existing fire alarm and security systems. It does not replace prescribed fire detectors, heat, gas or hazardous-material sensors.
Limits relevant recordings by period, camera, terminal area, vehicle type, colour, visible licence plate or container code. People, visible clothing features, directions of movement and objects can also serve as search criteria. In this way, your authorised staff will find relevant people, vehicles, containers and events faster without manually searching all records.
From picture to your reaction
Good recognition quality alone is not enough. The decisive factor is how you evaluate the result, hand over to the responsible team and process it in a comprehensible manner in your company.
Your existing or new cameras provide images from gate, yard, transshipment, traffic and security zones.
The AI automatically evaluates people, vehicles, containers, movements, codes and visible states.
Your rules for zone, time, duration, direction and number determine when a situation is considered a relevant event.
Your control centre, terminal control, safety officers or connected operational systems receive the event with the relevant visual context.
Your responsible team will check the event and initiate the established security, gate, yard or handling process.
You document time, camera, event and processing status according to your specified purpose and retention period.
Operational integration
Align the technical connection to your existing infrastructure, your security concept, your terminal processes and the documented responsibilities.
Your operational added value
The concrete benefit arises when you reliably recognise a clearly defined visual task and connect it to the right operational process.
Automatically capture vehicles, passages, times of stay and visible codes at defined control points.
Make movements between gate, yard, envelope and display spaces visible event-related.
Let backlogs, long waiting times and blocked transfer points report faster.
Detect critical close approaches, people in hazardous areas and blocked routes earlier.
Receive alerts about open doors, overturned containers and clearly visible damage, together with the relevant visual context.
Automate continuous observation tasks and recurring visual exams.
Record events and their processing according to purpose, role and retention period.
Find relevant video sequences faster based on vehicles, containers, codes, movements and events.
Integrate suitable existing cameras into your operating processes as additional visual sensors.
Privacy by Design and Grenzen
Set purpose, camera zones, roles, access, storage and deletion periods before operation.
video analytics supports your operational decisions. It does not replace any prescribed safety, operating or approval procedures.
You can only evaluate people, vehicles, containers, codes and states that are sufficiently visible in the camera view.
Consider that rain, fog, darkness, backlight, large distances, pollution and coverings can affect the quality of detection.
For the recognition of vehicle labels and container codes, you need suitable camera positions, sufficient image quality and clearly visible characters.
You must continue to test unreadable, damaged or concealed codes using an additional control process.
You can capture visible container movements with video analytics. However, a complete booking, position management or operational approval remains the task of your terminal operating system and, if necessary, other operational systems.
Use video analytics to supplement your crane and machine safety, your collision protection, your fire detectors, your access control and other sensor systems.
The visual analysis does not replace these systems in a flat rate.
First, treat a detected event as a technical alert. Verification, decision and measure remain assigned to the roles you defined.
Check data protection, port, security and operating requirements for location and project-specific. A camera or analysis function does not meet these requirements automatically.
Privacy by Design
For locations in the EU form the GDPR, especially Art. 5, 6, 25 and 35 and the EDSA video surveillance guidelines the basis of the privacy audit. In addition, consider the law of the respective Member State, in particular employee data protection and co-determination. The duties from the EU AI Act check for the concrete use of AI.
For private operators in Switzerland address: FDPIC guidance on video surveillance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, if resolution, perspective, frame rate, lighting, weather protection and coverage are suitable for your particular scenario. Before implementation, the technical suitability of each relevant camera scene should be checked.
Yes, if the signs are sufficiently large, sharp, illuminated and not covered. For reliable capture points, specialised cameras and clearly defined lanes may be required.
You can track container movements between sufficiently covered camera areas by recorded event. For complete location tracking, you need to connect the video analytics to your Terminal Operating System or other positioning systems.
You can have motion directions, zones and critical close approaches checked by defined rules. The analysis supplements your existing safety measures, but does not replace certified collision protection.
This depends on your camera technology, lighting, distance and the respective visibility conditions. Rain, fog, darkness and backlight can affect the detection. Therefore, check the intended scenes under representative operating conditions.
Yes. You can connect visual events, container codes, vehicle data and visual evidence to your existing gate, yard and terminal processes via appropriate interfaces.
Yes. Depending on your infrastructure and your requirements, processing can be done directly at your site, in a European environment or in a hybrid architecture.
Yes. You can centrally merge cameras, rules, roles, events and analyses of multiple sites depending on your infrastructure and authorisation concept.
No. It supplements your cameras and operational systems with a visual analysis level. Collision protection, fire alarm technology, access control, machine safety and your operational approval procedures remain required.
Validate Use case
Together with you, we will check the camera scene, image quality, system integration and measurable success criteria based on your specific port or terminal process.
