Marine Port Security Solutions · NDIS by Nanodems
NDIS for Marine Ports · Port Security Operations

Unified security operations for marine ports & terminals.

A port's security estate spans quaysides and berths, container yards, truck and rail gates, fuel and tank farms, and a waterside perimeter that never stops moving — CCTV, access control, gate & OCR, perimeter and waterside intrusion, radar and AIS, alarms and ISPS compliance, each from a different vendor. NDIS brings them into one operational platform, so port security teams detect, verify, respond and document incidents with greater speed and consistency — across land and water.

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Operational view
12+
Systems unified
100%
Brand-independent
ndis · port command · SOC
LIVE
Alarm Queue 5
P1 · WATERSIDE02:47
Waterside intrusion detected
Quay 3 · berth line / sector 2
P1 · GATE02:48
Container gate forced
Terminal A · gate 4 / OCR lane
P2 · ACCESS02:49
Restricted ISPS zone door held
Terminal A · customs hall
P2 · RADAR02:49
Unidentified vessel approach
Harbor approach · sector 2
P3 · HEALTH02:50
Camera offline
Reefer yard · row 9
// Container Terminal · Live QUAY-3 HARBOR APPROACH CONTAINER YARD REEFER TANK FARM GATE & OCR 1-4 RAIL HEAD VESSEL · BERTH 12 940 DEVICES ONLINE
ok warn alarm
QUAY-3 · WATER
GATE-4 · OCR
BERTH-12 · STS
YARD-3 · STACK
940 online
6 degraded
2 offline
02:50:17 · sop · auto-dispatch ✓

Securing a port depends on more than monitoring.

Ports and marine terminals are vast, high-throughput environments — kilometers of quayside and waterside perimeter, container yards, truck and rail gates, fuel and tank farms, customs halls and ISPS-restricted zones, with vessels, cranes, trucks and people in constant motion. Security teams juggle CCTV, access control, gate & OCR, perimeter and waterside intrusion, radar and AIS, intrusion and duress alarms, fire and life-safety — often from separate consoles, with separate alarms, in separate vendor portals.

One port. Dozens of systems. One operation.

A marine terminal runs CCTV across quaysides, yards and gates, access control for ISPS-restricted zones and customs, gate and OCR for trucks, containers and rail, perimeter and waterside intrusion detection, radar and AIS for the harbor approach, intrusion and duress alarms, fire and life-safety, and central reporting — each from a different vendor, each with its own interface, each demanding attention the moment something goes wrong.

When these systems operate separately — and across multiple terminals — operators lose seconds switching between screens, verifying information manually, and coordinating response across the SOC, port facility security officers, harbor master, customs and law enforcement.

// Operational consequence

At a port, the difference between a contained event and a breach — an intruder on the quay, a forced container gate, a vessel off its declared track — is often measured in how fast an operator can see the event, verify it, and route the right response to the right berth, gate or zone.

Terminal CCTV
quay · yard · gates
Access & ISPS control
doors · zones · customs
Perimeter & waterside intrusion
fence · quay · water
Gate, OCR & ANPR
trucks · containers · rail
Radar, sonar & AIS
vessels · approach · berths
Fire & life-safety
fuel · tank farm · evac
Intrusion & duress
motion · door · panic
Multi-terminal SOC
berth · port · authority

One platform for security, safety, and maritime awareness.

NDIS is the central platform that connects and organizes data from your existing systems into a single pane of glass — the operational view your SOC, port facility security officers and harbor teams actually need to run a port across land and water.

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Centralized CCTV & alarm monitoring

Live and recorded video, alarms and events from every terminal and system, correlated and prioritized in one console.

// 02

Access & ISPS zone control

Restricted-zone doors, customs halls and gate barriers tied to live video and operator workflows in real time — with tailgating awareness.

// 03

Perimeter & waterside intrusion

Fence sensors, quay analytics and waterside detection surfaced with the right camera and SOP — across kilometers of land and water boundary.

// 04

Gate, OCR & vehicle integration

Truck and rail gates, container OCR and license-plate recognition feed directly into the same operational view as CCTV and access.

// 05

Radar, sonar & AIS correlation

Harbor radar, sonar and AIS vessel tracks correlated with CCTV — so an unidentified approach surfaces as one verified event.

// 06

Map-based situational awareness

Port charts, terminal layouts and berth plans with live device states, alarm overlays and zone status across land and water.

// 07

ISPS-aligned SOP automation

SOPs guide operators step-by-step through every alarm type and MARSEC level — consistently, across every terminal and shift.

// 08

Audit trails & compliance reporting

Tamper-evident logs of who did what, when — ready for ISPS audits, port-authority review and investigation.

Built for the realities of quayside & terminal environments.

The patterns below repeat across berths, yards, gates and the waterside of every port. NDIS wires each one to its own SOP, its own evidence trail, and its own response workflow — so what looks chaotic at the device level stays disciplined at the operator level.

// CASE 01P1

Waterside & quayside intrusion

Quay analytics, waterside sensors and radar feed one workflow. A breach triggers the same response — with the verifying camera, berth location and escalation path open before the operator acts.

Triggers: waterside · radar · analytics
// CASE 02P1

Container gate breach & OCR mismatch

Forced gates, tailgating trucks and OCR container-ID mismatches surface with verifying video, lane location and the right escalation — without operator interpretation.

Triggers: gate · OCR · ANPR
// CASE 03P1

Restricted ISPS zone access

Held-open restricted-zone doors, out-of-pattern customs-hall entries and unescorted access surface with linked video and the ISPS SOP — identify, verify, isolate, escalate — in seconds.

Triggers: ACS · ISPS · door
// CASE 04P2

Unidentified vessel approach

Radar and AIS flag a vessel off its declared track or with no transponder. The event opens with the verifying camera, harbor-approach sector and notification to the harbor master.

Triggers: radar · AIS · CCTV
// CASE 05P1

Fire in fuel & tank-farm areas

A fuel or tank-farm zone fires the SOP: identify, verify, isolate, evacuate, document. Cameras, gates and notifications move together — not in separate consoles.

Triggers: fire panel · gas · manual
// CASE 06P3

Multi-terminal & port-authority SOC

One command view across every terminal, berth and gate — per-terminal operations preserved, but visible, comparable and coordinated from a central port security operations center.

Triggers: federation · SOC · authority

Visualize the whole port in real time.

Operators see camera locations, access points, alarm zones, perimeter sectors, berths and vessel tracks on interactive port charts and terminal layouts — so they know where an incident is happening, what is around it, and which resources are nearby, across land and water.

  • Quaysides & berths
  • Container yard
  • Reefer stacks
  • Truck & rail gates
  • Fuel & tank farm
  • Waterside perimeter
  • Customs & ISPS zones
  • Harbor approach
ndis · terminal layout · port east · terminal a
LIVE
HARBOR APPROACH VESSEL · BERTH 12 CONTAINER YARD REEFER ISPS / CUSTOMS TANK FARM GATE & OCR RAIL HEAD P1 · WATERSIDE PORT EAST · TERMINAL A · MARSEC 1
Camera OK Degraded Offline Active alarm Gate / entry Gate lane

What port security teams gain with NDIS.

Unified operations turn fragmented activity into coordinated response — and turn coordinated response into a record you can review, report on, and improve over time, across every terminal.

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Unified situational awareness

One operator view across every system, every terminal, land and water.

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Faster incident verification

Linked video, berth location and telemetry on alarm — not after.

// 03
Consistent response procedures

ISPS-aligned SOPs enforced inline — same workflow at every terminal.

// 04
Reduced cargo & container loss

Gate, yard and quayside events aligned to one operational view.

// 05
Better team coordination

SOC, PFSOs, harbor master, customs and responders aligned.

// 06
Reduced operator workload

Fewer screens, fewer manual steps, less cognitive switching.

// 07
ISPS & audit readiness

Tamper-evident records — ready for ISPS and port-authority review.

// 08
Fewer blind spots

Continuous device health closes gaps before they're needed.

// 09
Better use of existing investments

Open architecture protects what you've already deployed.

// 10
Scalable multi-terminal management

From single terminal to port-wide SOC — same platform.

Strengthen port security with unified operations.

Bring quayside cameras, waterside and perimeter sensors, gate & OCR, radar & AIS, access control, alarms, maps, ISPS procedures and reporting into one coordinated security operations platform — built for the realities of marine ports and terminals.

Open architecture On-prem · private cloud · hybrid Single-terminal · multi-terminal · port-wide SOC