SIBRE BRAKES SPAIN S.L, beneficiary company of the Ports 4.0 grants, performs the final demonstration of the GUARDIAN IIoT project.

The company SIBRE BRAKES SPAIN S.L., responsible for the “GUARDIAN IIoT” project, subsidized by the Ports 4.0 Fund of Puertos del Estado, has carried out the final demonstration of this innovative technological solution in the facilities of the Port of Valencia. The test was attended by representatives of Ports 4.0 of Puertos del Estado, as well as the Port Authority of Valencia, along with those responsible for the project by SIBRE BRAKES SPAIN S.L and the facilitator MSC TERMINAL VALENCIA.

This pioneering project aims to develop an ecosystem of predictive solutions and technologies that allow the convergence of Operation Technology (OT) with Information Technology (IT). In this sense, the system allows the digitalization of the terminals’ operational equipment, providing them with technology for their use in detection and predictive maintenance to increase the productivity and safety of the equipment operating in the terminals, such as ship-to-shore cranes (STS) and yard cranes (RTG) or other types of machinery. The system consists of two independent, but at the same time coexistent, subsystems:

• GUARDIAN_SLP: predictive system that allows the detection of STS crane snags before they can occur, by means of Artificial Intelligence algorithms.
• GUARDIAN_Analytic: platform for uploading data from inertial sensors and video camera images massively to the cloud for a global analysis of all cranes as a whole for the subsequent analysis of efficiency and safety of their movements through Analytic tools, search for patterns within the generated database to improve predictive and preventive maintenance, safety, as well as productivity of the cranes. It also allows automated search and extraction of events in video recordings. These events can be events reported by SLP such as snags or abrupt movements, or crane movement intensity data, but also other events reported by other terminal systems.

Throughout the development of the project, SIBRE BRAKES SPAIN has managed to reduce crane downtime, increasing operational safety through the use of predictive snag protection and motion analytics.

After the presentation on the characteristics and particularities of the project implementation, a demonstration of the GUARDIAN IIoT solution was carried out. In this demonstration, fundamental elements of the project were tested, such as the operation of the platform or the physical devices installed on the cranes. The day was valued as a success by the attendees, highlighting the high level of development achieved and the real applicability of the solution.

In addition, it has been highlighted that the GUARDIAN IIoT system is already in operation in ports in Spain and other European countries such as Denmark, Croatia and Portugal; in America, including the United States and Panama; in the Middle East, such as the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Saudi Arabia; as well as in India, which demonstrates its scalability and international consolidation.