DataPorts' goal was to provide a Data Platform in which transportation and logistics companies around a seaport can manage data like any other company asset to create the basis to offer cognitive services. The project was devoted to creating a secure data platform that allows information sharing between port agents and other ports.
DataPorts included the deployment, testing and showcase of the data platform in two relevant European ports (Valencia, Thessaloniki), where it will be connected to the existing digital platforms to collect data, provide sharing rules, and add value to data owners, and on top of which the pilots will develop AI and cognitive applications to solve specific problems and improve processes for each pilot.
Key societal impacts:
The DataPorts data platform improves operations in the shipping industry and maritime sector, contributing to the two-fold objective of consolidating the EU as a significant player in container transportation and reducing total annual GHG emissions from shipping.
Ports generate vast amounts of valuable data for other ports, logistic services, other industries, cities, local businesses, and end-users. DataPorts boosts the data economy by considering data as a tradable good and incorporating the well-identified value into the real economy.
Pilot applications have common objectives, such as reducing transit time in the port area, improving information awareness in the port community, and reducing port operational costs by improving processes.
Citizens' trust will improve as privacy-aware transparency and control features are developed in the context of the project platform.
Project primary objectives?
To address real-life data market use cases in two relevant European seaports
To design and validate next generation set of advanced interoperable data-related and AI-based services
Define an engineering methodology facilitating the application of DataPorts architecture and tools
Define and design a novel, scalable, resilient, semantic approach for data sharing
Define, design, and provide a data governance framework for the DataPorts architecture
Impact creation
Establishment of a new cooperation and business framework
Conclusions:
The project has been finalised successfully, and the results of the project have been the following:
Architecture and technical and functional specifications of the DataPorts platform
Technical implementation of the architectural components
Development of Big Data applications for port users
Demonstrators in the Valencia and Thessaloniki ports
