Design of a Next-Generation Interoperable Cognitive Port Solution.

Ports are essential nodes in global maritime trade. As such, their efficency is key to ensure sustainable supply chains across the world. Current studies point interoperability and data integration as the next milestones to achieve efficient, smart ports. DataPorts aims at covering those gaps, delivering an industrial data platform bearing in mind seaports' involved actors' needs. With DataPorts, transportation and logistics companies will leverage the current data deluge to offer cognitive services. This paper describes the technical design of such a platform and how it enables the acquisition, homogenization, and processing of the heterogeneous data, judiciously handled to generate advanced data-exhaustive services. Finally, it presents a practical usage example aimed to improve the business processes in the port of Valencia.