Sensors

for Container Terminals

Gain in productivity
Increase accuracy
Enhance safety

MARC BROUANT

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French Engineering company Develop and Manufacture:

Optical measurement in difficult industrial environment.

Robust and Accurate industrial sensors for control and

measurement solutions for heavy industry

International technical and commercial network

3 major Core Businesses:

Crane automation on container terminals
Lifting equipment’s automation in heavy industry
Quality control in industrial mills
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 Innovative Solutions

Load Movement Measurement: Sway

& Skew measurement

For Crane Anti-Collision for Cranes and

Vehicles
Automation
Truck or Straddle Carrier Positioning
On Container
Container Detection Prior To
Terminals Handling or Stacking

Quay Crane Boom to Vessel Anti-

collision

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 Sensors Portfolio
Accurate and robust ranges of products to
perform the most productive applications

SIRRAH SPICA DISTER

Load Container Anti-
movement detection collision
Sway, Skew Handling or For cranes and
Truck or SC Stacking vehicles
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

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SIRRAH
Sway and Skew
Load measurement
movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

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 Sway and Skew
measurement
Dynamic sway and skew control

SIRRAH Technology Advantage be safe in case of fog, rain etc..

Load Working ranges: Adapted to each type of Crane

STS or Yard crane (RTG RMGC)
movement from 25m to 45m (and up with
Sway, Skew special beacons)
Truck or SC What is needed:
positioning SIRRAH on the trolley
Boom Anti (downwards), Beacon BMU on
Collision the spreader
Interfaces to crane’s PLC:
RS422 or Profibus

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 Sway and Skew
measurement
More Handling Optimisation Less Downtime

For manual or fully automated cranes

SIRRAH High stacking accuracy (mm range)

Load 1 over 8 container stacking

movement Sway only? Or Sway & Skew?
Sway, Skew 1 sensor 1 beacon 2 sensors 2 beacons

Truck or SC Sensor 2 Sensor

detection detection

positioning
Boom Anti Beacon Beacon 1 Beacon 2

Collision
Different types of configuration

Sway & Skew

1 sensor 2 beacons 1 sensor 3 beacons 2 sensors 2 beacons
Sensor Sensor 2 Sensor
detection detection detection

Beacon 1 Beacon 2 Beacon 1 Beacon 2 Beacon 3 Beacon 1 Beacon 2

Best accuracy
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 Sensor Optimisation

The ratio is the minimum working distance

divided by the maximum working distance SIRRAH

Saturation Zone

Minimum
Working
Working Zone
Distance

Working
Distance

Beacon

Maximum
Working
Beacon
Non-working Zone Distance

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 In the most prestigious &
automated ports
Throughput
14,135,900 in 1997 32,578,700 in 2013
SIRRAH
Load
movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

Since 1997 SINGAPORE Port Terminals

trust us for Sway & Skew regulation.

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 Sway Automation

Driver assistance system for

container cranes
SIRRAH Combination of:
Load Sensor SIRRAH®
movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision
Software ICRAS ® or SWAYTEL®

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 Sway Automation

SIRRAH
Load
movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC Without Swaytel® regulation
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

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 Sway Automation

With Swaytel® regulation

SIRRAH
Load
movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

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SIRRAH
TRUCK POSITIONING
Load in multiple lanes
movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

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 TRUCK/CONTAINER
POSITIONING
in multiple lanes

BE SAFE
SIRRAH No Human presence is
needed close to cranes
Load
movement SAVE TIME
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC STS driver reduces time
positioning needed to adjust the
Boom Anti spreader position over a
Collision container

SAVE MONEY
Nobody is needed to
manually give orders to the
truck driver arriving under
the STS
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 TRUCK POSITIONING
in multiple lanes
Benefits
shorter cycle
Productivity time, multi-trailer
SIRRAH positioning: for
40”, 20” back, 20” 45 m
front
Load
21,7°

Up to 3 lanes per 12 m 6m 6m 6m

movement sensor
18 m 18 m 18 m

Sway, Skew
Truck or SC Accuracy Faster positioning: save time
positioning
Boom Anti Safety no human presence
Collision Line
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

SEA 45 m
18°

30 m

Sirrah Sensor 1 Sirrah Sensor 2 Sirrah Sensor 3

Field of View Field of View Field of View
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 TRUCK/CONTAINER
POSITIONING
in multiple lanes

What is needed:
Two sensors
SIRRAH on the STS

Load One
distancemete
movement r on the
Sway, Skew truck
Truck or SC
positioning One beacon
Boom Anti on the roof
Collision of the truck

Codes :
Each beacon transmits a specific code (10Hz)
used to: TAG the type of container specification
TAG the position of the container
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 TRUCK/CONTAINER
POSITIONING
in multiple lanes
Advantages
No matter the container quality (rusted or not)
or its color
SIRRAH
Immunity to sun light
Load Exact position of container +/- 5cm
movement
Sway, Skew No moving parts compared to a laser scanner system
Truck or SC
positioning Longer Life-time
Boom Anti High Reliability
Collision

OR
Display: Graphical screen or
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 TRUCK POSITIONING
under RTG/RMGC

Positioning

➢ The purpose is to find the container under the STS

SIRRAH spreader at the right position : we need to center the
container over the chassis at the stage of loading
Load
movement ➢ to use a 1 or 2 lanes system under the Yard
Sway, Skew crane
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

23,60 m

12 m 6m 6m 6m 6m

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 STRADDLE CARRIER
POSITIONING
in multiple lanes
Benefits
Productivity shorter cycle time, multi-SC positioning:
Many SC at the same time
SIRRAH Accuracy faster positioning: save time

Load
Line
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti
Collision y
Sirrah Sensor 1 Sirrah Sensor 2 Sirrah Sensor 3
Field of View Field of View Field of View
x

45 m

12 m 12 m 12 m

21,7°

18m 18m 19 18m

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SIRRAH
QUAY CRANE BOOM to
Load VESSEL ANTI-COLLISION
movement SIRRAH Sensor
Containers
InfraRed Beacon
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC Upper part of 2 SIRRAH
the vessel Sensors SC10
positioning
Boom Anti
2 beacons
Collision BMU-01

Crane boom

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 QUAY CRANE BOOM to
VESSEL ANTI-COLLISION

Not sensitive to boom Up to +/-5m is authorized

bending or flexing for a boom of 50m
SIRRAH
Long working range Up 65m (option 135m)
Load
movement Operates accurately in all
weather conditions
Sway, Skew SIRRAH Sensor

Truck or SC InfraRed Beacon

positioning
Boom Anti
Collision

Option : 2 beacons on each side For

SLOW DOWN and STOP Signals
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 QUAY CRANE BOOM to
VESSEL ANTI-COLLISION
Successful installation in a famous
middle-eastern terminal SIRRAH Sensor
InfraRed Beacon
GulfTainer Khor Fakkan
SIRRAH
Load
movement
Sway, Skew
Truck or SC
positioning
Boom Anti Why not using the trip
Collision wire system supports?

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SPICA
Container Detection
Container
detection
Handling or
Stacking

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 Container Detection

Container Position under

spreader

SPICA Centering while Continuous detection allows

detecting the container a continuous centering
Container
Container Detection
detection from 1m before landing
OPTICAL
FIELD
SENSORS

Handling or
Stacking
SPREADER

CENTRAL CALCULATOR

View of the 6 SPICA sensors and their IR

light + the associated central computer

Save Time:
Reduce time to adjust
the spreader position
over a container to pick
up
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 Container Detection

Detection of below container for stacking

SPICA Detecting the position offset of the upper container

before landing
Container Accuracy 1cm - Same accuracy whatever the stack
detection height
Handling or
Stacking

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 Lateral Anti-collision
stacking Container

SPICA

Container
detection
Lateral Anti-
collision
stacking
Container

Move to the Left Move to the Right Right Position

Human-Machine Interface

Ask FULL SLOW STOP

For: SPEED DOWN
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 GAP between containers
detection

SPICA
Container
detection
GAP detection
Working distance : from 0,5 m to 3 m
- Gap width with data communication: from
0,5 cm to 30 cm
- Gap detection only with I/O:
10 to 15cm

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 GAP between containers
detection

SPICA
Container
detection Two Spicas
take the
Spreader
position of
extension
the edge to
adjust the
size of the
spreader to
20’, 40’ or 45’
containers

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 CHASSIS LIFTING
Prevention Sytem

CLPS Under
development
SPICA
Container
detection
CLPS

2 SPICA sensors with specific software

- Detects if THE CHASSIS is lifted
- Confirm the good lifting of container

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DISTER
Anti-collision for cranes
Anti-
and vehicles
collision
For cranes and Doppler Radar for STS, RTG, RMG anti
vehicles
collision Crane/Crane &
Crane/Obstacles

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 STS, RTG, RMG anti collision
Crane/Crane &
Crane/Obstacles

A Radar designed to prevent collisions between:

DISTER Cranes Trucks running on the same way

Anti- Dister
collision
For cranes and
vehicles Dister

Between cranes and straddle carriers

Dister
Dister

High crane – no collision Small crane – possible collision

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 STS, RTG, RMG anti collision
Crane/Crane &
Crane/Obstacles

DISTER
Anti-
collision
For cranes and
vehicles

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 WORLDWIDE
INSTALLATIONS

IN THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS PORTS

SINGAPORE – REP. OF SINGAPORE

YANTAI – P.R. CHINA
SHENZEN – P.R. CHINA
PUSAN – SOUTH KOREA
ABOU DHABI – UAE
HAMBURG – GERMANY
QINGDAO – P.R. CHINA
ANTWERP – BELGIUM
LONG BEACH – USA
PORT KLANG – MALAYSIA
TANJUNG PELEPAS – MALAYSIA
BREMERHAVEN – GERMANY
LAEM CHABANG – THAILAND
TOKYO – JAPAN
PELINDO – INDONESIA
PORT SAID – EGYPT
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THEY TRUST US…

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 WORLDWIDE SALES
PARTNERS

Agents or Distributors for ports in the world

▪ GERMANY : ho-ing (Hofmann, Herbert Ing.-Büro)
▪ THE NETHERLANDS : ho-ing
▪ CHINA : ARCK Sensor representative office
▪ KOREA : Seoho Electric Co. Ltd. - Korea Tech
▪ JAPAN : ARCK Sensor representative office
▪ SINGAPORE : KTS and Bellmond Technologies Pte. Ltd.
▪ BRASIL : Secta Internacional Ltda

System integrator : UAE Intercon TIS Llc

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To Meet your needs

Thank You !

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