IRMA will use cutting-edge technologies and materials, currently used only in the most important laboratories in the world (for example Fermilab in the United States and CERN in Switzerland) specialized in the most advanced research in nuclear and subnuclear physics, to create an innovative portal in able to carry out controls far more effective than the best current standards. The device will be economical, robust, easily usable by the airport staff and will have an extreme sensitivity for radioactive material and a minimal probability of false alarms. The new portal will be specifically designed to be installed directly on the handling vehicles of the port area, the cranes that unload the containers from the ships on the quay, and the forklifts (e.g. forklift and reach stacker), and will allow to control the 100 % of containers in transit and identify illegal transport already in the phase in which the container is “in flight” between ship and quay, eliminating contact and, consequently, significantly reducing the risk to the health of the ground crew. The solution will allow an in-depth check, as it will go from ten seconds of scanning with the classic gate portal, to much longer times, up to 2 minutes, time typically used by a crane to move a container. This new level of control can easily be added to the controls carried out by existing portals, which in turn can be improved by new technologies and new materials, making our borders practically impenetrable. The portal will also be interconnected with the port area control center via wifi / 4g / 5g telemetry for data recording in the archive associated with each container. An integrated system for the detection and processing of data from radioactive sources, supported by artificial intelligence tools, will be created, opening up the possibility of improving the extraction of information from data through machine learning techniques, in order to increase the logistical effectiveness and protect health, in line with Industry 4.0 Big Data Analytics technologies. The Port of Livorno, one of the most important in the Mediterranean Sea, with over 1 million containers in transit every year, and an already advanced IT infrastructure, will constitute, thanks to previous relationships with the partnership, an excellent test bed for evaluating performance. of the new portal in real conditions of operation and use, reaching a position of absolute avant-garde and offering the widest visibility on an international scale to the new product and to the companies involved.
