卡尔玛黑客节 “Cargo Hack” 为港口码头业注入新思路及创意

卡尔玛新闻摘要，2016年4月12日

卡尔玛于2016年4月8日-10日在芬兰坦佩雷的科技研发中心举办了首届黑客节“CargoHack”（货物黑客）。这次活动吸引了100位来自世界各地的技术人才，57名黑客组成的16支队伍共同参与，解决现代码头所面临的挑战。

在活动中，参赛者能获得港口业最新的技术和设备支援，包括世界上最大的自动化测试领域及无人机、卡尔玛虚拟实验室、应用编程接口(API)、传感器和码头环境的大数据。此外，卡尔玛技术专家及Tieto公司为各团队担任导师，提供支持。

卡尔玛自动化副总裁Tommi Pettersson表示：“黑客节是一个有效的工具和方法来展示新的概念及鼓励打破常规的思维方式。我们将继续推进一些想法，并将他们融入到我们的产品和技术路线图中。”

Kalmar, part of Cargotec, organised its first hackathon CargoHack on 8-10 April 2016 at its Technology and Competence Centre in Tampere, Finland. The event brought together about 100 participants from all around the world, including 57 hackers that formed 16 teams to solve the challenges that the terminals are facing today.

"CargoHack was a great success in many aspects. We received more than 100 applications and had to widen the event scope already at an early stage. We selected 16 teams to join in and gave them challenges covering areas like visualisation of terminal operations, use of mobile technologies, safety, and improving efficiency of the wider value chain around cargo handling," says Tommi Pettersson, Vice President, Automation at Kalmar.

The participants had access to the latest technology and equipment in the port industry, including world's largest automation test field with unmanned machines and drones, Kalmar's Virtual Lab, Application Program Interfaces (APIs), sensors and big data from terminal environment. In addition, experts from Kalmar and Tieto Corporation served as mentors for the teams during the entire event.

"Improving performance by utilising technology that is already available and safety turned out to be the most common themes in the final pitches. Many proposals looked for new ways to use drones, sensors, robots, smart glasses or other innovative tools and devices in improving terminal efficiency and safety or in creating new intelligent services for terminal operators. Some of the teams came up with new conceptual thinking to improve sharing of data and knowledge among the entire value chain of terminal operations. We even heard ideas on how to intelligently combine manual and automated operations," Tommi continues.

Customer value and business model were key criteria in choosing the winner of CargoHack. The winning concept was presented by the team Pointscene. Their unique idea of using visualisation in a terminal environment can be implemented in multiple ways.

"Overall, the hackathon proved to be a great tool and method for bringing out and demonstrating new ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. We will move forward with some of the ideas and integrate them into our product and technology roadmaps," Tommi concludes.
 

Further information for the press:

Tommi Pettersson, Vice President, Automation, Kalmar +358 40 7556135, tommi.pettersson@kalmarglobal.com  

Maija Eklöf, Vice President, Marketing and Communications, Kalmar, tel. +358 20 777 4096, maija.eklof@kalmarglobal.com

Kalmar offers the widest range of cargo handling solutions and services to ports, terminals, distribution centres and to heavy industry. Kalmar is the industry forerunner in terminal automation and in energy efficient container handling, with one in four container movements around the globe being handled by a Kalmar solution. Through its extensive product portfolio, global service network and ability to enable a seamless integration of different terminal processes, Kalmar improves the efficiency of every move. www.kalmarglobal.com

Kalmar is part of Cargotec. Cargotec's sales totalled EUR 3.7 billion in 2015 and it employs approximately 11,000 people. Cargotec's class B shares are quoted on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki under symbol CGCBV. www.cargotec.com