PIXEL-PORTS Information

PIXEL is a H2020-funded project aiming to enable a two-way collaboration of ports, multimodal transport agents and cities for optimal use of internal and external resources, sustainable economic growth and environmental impact mitigation, towards the Ports of the Future. PIXEL will leverage technological enablers to voluntary exchange data among ports and stakeholders, thus ensuring a measurable benefit in this process. The main outcome of this technology will be efficient use of resources in ports, sustainable development and green growth of ports and surrounding cities/regions. Built on top of the state-of-the art interoperability technologies, PIXEL will centralise data from the different information silos where internal and external stakeholders store their operational information. PIXEL leverages an IoT based communication infrastructure to voluntarily exchange data among ports and stakeholders to achieve an efficient use of resources in ports. PIXEL objectives are: • Enable the IoT-based connection of port resources, transport agents and city sensor networks • Achieve an automatic aggregation, homogenization and semantic annotation of multi-source heterogeneous data from different internal and external actors • Develop an operational management dashboard to enable a quicker, more accurate and in-depth knowledge of port operations • Model and simulate port-operations processes for automated optimization • Develop predictive algorithms • Develop a methodology for quantifying, validating, interpreting and integrating all environmental impacts of port activities into a single metric called the Port Environmental Index (PEI). • Develop guidelines for mitigating possible environmental and health effects of port activities and develop evidence-based, standardized and cost-effective procedures for environmental monitoring in port areas