Port of Rotterdam IoT & Hydro/Meteo Platform
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The Port Authority's Internet of Things platform, announced with IBM, Cisco, Esri and Axians and delivered under the Authority's own direction, went into operation at the start of 2019 with a hydro/meteo application: height of tide, tidal stream, salinity, wind speed and direction and visibility, drawn from a combination of 44 sensors in the port, prediction models, data from Rijkswaterstaat and astronomical calculations. Its users are the Pilotage Service, Rijkswaterstaat, the environmental agency DCMR and departments within the Port Authority, and it processes some 1.2 million data points a day. The Authority presents it as the live-data foundation for a 4D twin of the port and for autonomous shipping later on.
what does this mean?
The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →📊 Impact
The launch report counted 44 sensors and some 1.2 million data points processed each day, and framed the benefit as a capability: the combination "enables the application to contribute to reductions of waiting times and optimization of berthing, loading/unloading and departure times". The Port Authority's current programme pages describe the platform's role and the extensions planned on top of it, and give no measured change in waiting time, berth productivity or fuel.
🎓 Lesson
Read the verb. What the Port Authority published on the day was that the system enables an application to contribute to shorter waiting times — a sentence about what the technology makes possible, which is not the sentence a reader wants, and the port's later pages have not replaced it with one. That gap matters more here than usual, because the users are exactly the parties who would notice: the Pilotage Service and Rijkswaterstaat use this as decision support for timing a berthing or a departure, so they are also the only people positioned to say whether the timing improved. The rest of the platform's public case is prospective in the same way — sensors in quay walls, dolphins, waterways, roads and traffic signs are described as laying the foundation to facilitate autonomous shipping in the future, and the 4D twin it is meant to feed is still ahead of it.
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Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2019. 3 of 3 sources carry a publication date, from 31 January 2019 to 8 September 2022.
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- Port of Rotterdam Authority · operatorPort of Rotterdam Authority — Internet of Things platform put into operation (31 January 2019)
- Port of Rotterdam Authority · operatorPort of Rotterdam Authority — control and management (operator)
- Port of Rotterdam Authority · operatorPort of Rotterdam Authority — smart infrastructure (operator)
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Evidence Passport · public beta 9 addressable claims, 3 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.
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announced with IBM, Cisco, Esri and Axians and delivered under the Authority's own direction
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height of tide, tidal stream, salinity, wind speed and direction and visibility, drawn from a combination of 44 sensors in the port, prediction models, data from Rijkswaterstaat and astronomical calculations
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Its users are the Pilotage Service, Rijkswaterstaat, the environmental agency DCMR and departments within the Port Authority, and it processes some 1.2 million data points a day
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The Authority presents it as the live-data foundation for a 4D twin of the port and for autonomous shipping later on
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The launch report counted 44 sensors and some 1.2 million data points processed each day, and framed the benefit as a capability
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"enables the application to contribute to reductions of waiting times and optimization of berthing, loading/unloading and departure times"
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The Port Authority's current programme pages describe the platform's role and the extensions planned on top of it, and give no measured change in waiting time, berth productivity or fuel
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the Pilotage Service and Rijkswaterstaat use this as decision support for timing a berthing or a departure
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sensors in quay walls, dolphins, waterways, roads and traffic signs are described as laying the foundation to facilitate autonomous shipping in the future
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Forensic record — source dossiers, gaps, hashes and the exact revision this page renders
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Port of Rotterdam Authority
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- utility
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3 source dossiers
Port of Rotterdam Authority — Internet of Things platform put into operation (31 January 2019)
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src-f2a19559e45464ba- Publisher
- Name not classified · portofrotterdam.com
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2019-01-31
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-27
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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- No local capture recorded
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
Official 2019 launch: 44 sensors, hydro/meteo variables, users and roughly 1.2 million daily data points. Dated 31 January 2019 on the article itself.
Port of Rotterdam Authority — control and management (operator)
- Stable source ID
src-a7408c7bb6aa9c63- Publisher
- Name not classified · portofrotterdam.com
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2021-05-11
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-27
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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Open the recorded source note
Official description of the IoT platform and its role as the basis for a 4D digital twin of the port. Dated 11 May 2021 on the article itself.
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Port of Rotterdam Authority — smart infrastructure (operator)
- Stable source ID
src-8b457d523f50a178- Publisher
- Name not classified · portofrotterdam.com
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2022-09-08
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- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-27
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
Current programme page covering real-time asset sensors, the port twin and the autonomous-navigation ambition. Dated 8 September 2022 on the article itself.
Known limits of this passport
- Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
- Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
- A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
- The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Port of Rotterdam IoT & Hydro/Meteo Platform” — Rotterdam, Netherlands. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/rotterdam-port-iot-platform/ (last verified 2026-08-27). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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