SMART NAVAL PORTS: AN SOA APPROACH · This study: main steps • Scenario modeling (UML) • Requirement analysis (SysML) • Service Oriented Architecture modeling • Definition

SMART NAVAL PORTS: AN SOA APPROACH

I-CiTies 2015CINI Annual Workshop on ICT for Smart Cities & CommunitiesOctober 29–30, 2015Palermo, Italy

Alessandro Aloisio, Vittorio Cortellessa, Paola Inverardi, Sebastiano Schillaci

Introduction• This study is part of a three years MIUR project, which

ends in December 2015• Thales Italy is the leader• The Department of Information Engineering, Computer

Science and Mathematics (DISIM) - University of L’Aquila,Italy - is one of the subcontractors.

Introduction• The main goal of this project is to study and develop a

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to realise a”smart naval port”, where sensors report a picture of whatit is happening so the authorities and control processescan promptly react.

• The Port Authority of Livorno is involved in the project tovalidate the study.

Livorno Port Authority

A naval port: main characteristics• A naval port is a very complex environment, where ships,

goods, vehicles and people continuously pass through

• Due to this complexity, it is necessary to:

• prevent accidents (e.g. explosions, fires, water & air pollution);

• secure both the land and sea areas;

• optimise logistic processes and limit contraband and counterfeit goods.

Smart Naval Port: main goals and functionalities

1.a) Environmental sensor nodes (e.g. bacteriological, chemical and radio-nuclear)

1.b) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers and tags

Report a picture of what it is happening

Quay Crane Scheduling

Goods Scheduling

Control Centre (server and mobile)

Container Tracking

Prevent accidents Secure areas Optimise logistic processes

Alarms

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Sensor Data

This study: main steps• Scenario modeling (UML)• Requirement analysis (SysML)• Service Oriented Architecture modeling

• Definition and modeling of the web-services (SoaML)• WSDL definition of each web-service• Informal definition of the (naval port) business processes• Modeling of the business processes (BPMN2)• BPEL definition of each composite web-service

• Testing part of the architecture at the port of Livorno

• N.B.: The studied system is thought to be applicable to different real naval ports. • Some of its functionalities can also be useful for a Smart City (e.g.

preventing accidents via environmental sensor nodes and vehicles/objects tracking by using RFID technology).

Scenario: the general use case diagram

Scenario: goods moving use case diagram

Scenario: area contr. & sec. use case diagram

Scenario: importing containers seq. diagram

Goods scheduling web service: BPMN2 model

Composed web services

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Goods scheduling web service: BPEL

Quay crane sched. web service: BPEL

Web services: a view

Conclusions• An SOA approach is useful for a naval port scenario

because:

• A naval port is a very complex and changeable environment• There are many different kinds of naval ports

• Scalability • The naval port business processes change over time

• Business and IT alignment• Composability• Loose coupling

• It is possible to reuse legacy applications

Thank you

Any questions?