Ikusi awarded a project to expand the system to identify vehicles and drivers from the Port of Barcelona

The Port Authority of Barcelona (APB) has awarded the expansion project Ikusi the traffic management system, based on the identification of vehicles and drivers that will allow monitoring and recording in real time, both the access of people and vehicles, port facilities. The project, to be held in joint venture with the company Construcciones Pescador Castillo, who will be responsible for civil works, amounting to 1.79 billion euros.

The project involves the control of about 17 hits, both perimeter and internal security with different levels, ranging from automatic identification of all vehicles entering or leaving the port until, in the case of certainty, the identification of Driver and visual control by the warden or port police. 

The project also includes two forms of identification of individuals. An ID card through an electronic chip that incorporates a small radio type RFID is not necessary physical contact between the reader and the card for regular users and one for vehicle access visits or nonrecurring. 

All information is centralized in central servers, thanks to fiber optics, will receive real time information about what is happening in the harbor. Thus, a single person may have enough information to detect alarms that may arise and to activate the security protocols established. A port will, checks may be parameterized and operated from several control rooms or locations. 

Ikusi continues to strengthen as well as a provider of solutions for port infrastructure, a sector which has outstanding references as the ports of Palma de Mallorca, Algeciras, Pasajes and Tarragona and now has joined the Port of Barcelona.

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