SUBSYSTEM 02
Adaptive Freight Gate
High-precision processing for commercial freight. Every truck identified, measured, and inspected in one free-flow pass — no stop required.
CAPABILITIES
What the Adaptive Freight Gate reads
One pass. The whole unit, measured — verified ground truth posted to GDS before the truck clears the gantry.
Every sensor on the gantry fires in sequence as the truck rolls through at 30 to 70 km/h. No stop. No weighbridge. One time-stamped freight record for every crossing.
Front & Rear ANPR
Front and rear Vidar cameras read the accompanied combi-trailer plate at 99.7% — closing the match as the unit exits the gantry.
Extra License Plate
Trailer and chassis plates read separately from the accompanied combi-trailer — linking the load to the registered unit in one record.
Nationality
Country of registration decoded from both plates at 99.7% — essential for cross-border corridor checks and booking match.
MMR
Make and model of the accompanied combi-trailer identified in the same pass — the visual fingerprint for tariff and fleet rules.
Classification
Sorted into vehicle categories at 98% — semi, road train, tanker, box, and more.
Speed
Lane-accurate velocity from 30 to 70 km/h, stamped on every event — the throughput proof and the basis for WIM correction.
Occupancy
Persons in the cab counted through the windscreen at 93–95% — accompanied vs unaccompanied handling decided before the ramp.
ADR & IMO Hazmat
Reads orange ADR placards and IMO Class signs. Every dangerous load is logged and flagged before it reaches the yard.
Dimensions by LiDAR
Height, width, and length measured by LiDAR in the same pass, so the real unit is known before the ramp.
Side-Scan Condition
Four flank cameras stitch a full-length IR panorama of both sides — the damage baseline for the crossing.
Weigh-in-Motion
Optional WIM clocks gross weight, per-axle weight and axle spacing at lane speed. Overweight loads are flagged before they hit the deck.
OCR (Trailer / Container Code)
Optional ACCR reads ISO 6346 and intermodal codes from trailers and containers — confidence-scored and attached to the freight event.
SEE IT IN ACTION
One pass, one freight record — in 12 seconds.
Watch the record fill as the truck rolls through at lane speed. Front and rear plates, the ADR placard and its UN number, the container code and seal, colour, make and model, occupants, speed, axle count and dimensions, height against your limit, weight from your weigh-in-motion, vehicle category, and front and rear condition images — every field lands in one time-stamped record before the trailer clears the gantry. No stop, no clipboard, no clerk typing.
No sound · 12 seconds · loops automatically
Values shown are an illustration. The gantry, barriers and weigh-in-motion are your integrator's; what we deliver are the cameras, the recognition engines and the record behind them.
HOW IT WORKS
Inspection, classification, and weighing in one corridor
Trucks roll through at a near-constant 30 to 70 km/h. Every sensor fires in sequence and the complete freight event is assembled and posted to the Globessey Data Server before the unit clears the gantry.
Approach
The truck enters the free-flow corridor. Front ANPR and the ADR reader capture the plate and any dangerous-goods placard in a single frame.
Scan
Four side-scanners image both flanks while the overhead LiDAR measures height, width, length, and vehicle class.
Weigh
Where the gate is fitted for it, weigh-in-motion strips clock gross and per-axle weight at lane speed — no stop, no weighbridge. The strips themselves are third-party equipment, and many gates run without them.
Record
Plate, hazard, dimensions, weight, occupancy, and images assemble into one time-stamped freight event, posted to the Globessey Data Server.
THE RECORD
What one truck writes as it rolls through.
Every sensor on the corridor fires into the same event. This is the record a customs officer, a tariff engine and a deck planner all read from — one pass, one truth, no re-keying.
Values shown are one illustrative event. Fields marked as an option are fitted only where a site asks for them.
What every truck writes to GDS.
One free-flow pass, one complete freight record — identity, hazard, load, and condition in a single time-stamped event. The design range covers constant-speed passes from 30 up to 70 km/h.
| Data | What's recorded | Delivery KPI |
|---|---|---|
| Event metadata | Site, lane, event ID, timestamp. | 99.5% counting |
| Number plate | Front and rear plate with country of registration. | 99.7% read · 99.7% nationality |
| Container / trailer code | Optional ACCR: intermodal codes read from trailers and containers, plus an optional top-down scanner view. | confidence-scored |
| Make & model | Manufacturer and model of the accompanied combi-trailer. | per event |
| Vehicle class | Classified into vehicle categories. | 98% |
| Dimensions | Height, width, and length measured by LiDAR in the same pass. | per event |
| Hazmat data | ADR placard and IMO class read and attached to the unit. | logged per event |
| Driver-cabin occupancy | Persons in the cab, counted through the windscreen. | 93–95% |
| Axle weights | Optional weigh-in-motion: gross weight, per-axle weight, axle spacing. | optional · where fitted |
| Image attachments | Front and rear overview, IR passenger-cabin photo, and a condition image — an IR panorama stitched from the side-scan cameras. | every event |
KPIs are the acceptance thresholds our deployments are contracted to meet. Vehicles outside the measurement envelope (0.6–2.6 m wide, 1.5–4.5 m high, 2.2–21.5 m long, axle loads 400 kg–20 t) are still recorded — the contracted accuracy figures simply no longer apply.
Deployment layouts
Compact
Every sensor on a single gantry — the smallest civil-works footprint for space-constrained gates.
Ro-Ro mode
Cameras lowered to trailer height with lower-chassis scanning — tuned for the units that actually roll onto a deck.
Lo-Lo mode
No chassis scan — superstructure and cargo only, for lift-on/lift-off flows where the box is the story.
HARDWARE STACK
What's in the Adaptive Freight Gate
Per lane: one front VIDAR reading the plate and cab, four side-scanners for the condition panorama, a rear ANPR closing the match, and one Gate Control PC pulling it all together.
5 PER LANE
VIDAR PAX
The workhorse of the lane: one front unit reading plate, nationality and cab occupancy, plus four side-scanners stitching the full-length condition panorama. Dual global-shutter sensors (colour + IR), self-adjusting optics, and a built-in eye-safe laser trigger. Made in EU, NDAA compliant.
1-2 PER LANE
VIDAR HDX
Rear-facing ANPR that reads the back plate and country of registration as the unit leaves the gantry — closing the front-and-rear match so no plate is missed and the record stands up to dispute.
1 PER 2 LANES
Gate Control PC
The rugged, fanless gate computer that turns cameras into a subsystem. It syncs every trigger, runs the Carmen ANPR, ADR and classification engines, assembles the complete freight event — plate, hazard, dimensions, weight, images — and deploys it to the Globessey Data Server, buffering locally if the link drops.
The same lane also carries a 3D LiDAR scanner and front and side LED illuminator kits, and — as options — high-speed Kistler weigh-in-motion, an OBU reader, ACCR container reading, and a smart LED panel for flow control. Carmen ADR decodes the orange plate to UN number, hazard class, and packing group in the same pass — no stop, no manual placard check.
A trailer that's legal on the motorway can be impossible on the deck.
Road and sea freight stopped being separate planning problems. The same unit can clear one national corridor, meet restrictions on the next, and still not fit a given ferry deck once weight distribution, axle loads, deck clearance, ramp angle, driver accompaniment, dangerous goods, and unaccompanied-trailer handling come into play. The EU's Weights & Dimensions rules cap international traffic at 16.5 m semi-trailers and 18.75 m road trains, 2.6 m wide, 4 m high, 40 tonnes (44 in combined transport) — but member states derogate freely for national traffic. So a standard EU envelope is not a Nordic HCT combination. A 25.25 m EMS unit — up to 60 tonnes, legal in Finland and Sweden and in trials across Denmark, the Netherlands, and parts of Germany — is not a 34.5 m Nordic road train. The UK and Ireland set their own length, height, and trailer definitions. And every vessel keeps its own limits — lane metres, deck heights, ramp angles, axle loads, stowage zones, DG segregation, and accompanied versus unaccompanied handling.
The weak point is the pre-gate, not the vessel.
Most terminals still plan from booking data that can be incomplete, out of date, or entered in a different language and format. Length, height, width, gross weight, axle load, occupancy, DG class, driver status, and route eligibility all need to be known before the unit reaches the ramp — not after it is already in the flow.
Adaptive Freight Gate measures the real unit.
In one moving pass, ANPR reads the plate, LiDAR captures height, width, length, and vehicle class, weigh-in-motion clocks gross and per-axle weight, and Carmen decodes the ADR/IMO placard. Verified ground truth is written to GDS — the record a road-corridor and ferry-deck rule check needs to reconcile the booking against physical reality and clear or flag the unit before it enters the terminal flow. Not a barrier, but a real-time compliance, safety, and capacity-planning point that keeps working whether traffic is rolling, stopping, or queuing.
What the freight record lets you check before the ramp
For operators, that means safer stowage, fewer last-minute rejections, better lane-metre utilisation, lower emissions, and more reliable turnaround. For hauliers and shippers, it means fewer surprises and clearer route eligibility across borders — the pre-gate that understands both road law and ferry operations.
SCOPE OF SUPPLY
What we deliver — and what stays yours.
We supply the recognition layer: the cameras, the readers, the engines that turn a moving vehicle into a record, and the data platform underneath. The lane itself — its civils, its power, its steel and its screens — is procured and installed by you or your integrator, to your own standards and suppliers.
Delivered by Adaptive Recognition
- Front and rear ANPR cameras and the side-scan camera set
- LED illuminators and the profiling sensor
- Carmen FreeFlow and Carmen ADR recognition engines
- The industrial gate control PC that runs the corridor
- Globessey Data Server, on your own hardware (optional)
Provided by the port or its integrator
- Gantry, road works and lane markings
- Weigh-in-motion system — third-party equipment, procured and installed separately
- Electrical cabinet, power supply, cabling and network
- Barrier, traffic lamp and driver signage, where the lane needs them
- Integration into your TOS, customs and tariff systems
Weigh-in-motion is an option, not a fixture — plenty of gates run without it. Where it is fitted it is third-party equipment, and its accuracy holds only while it is calibrated regularly against a certified weighbridge.
Where Adaptive Freight Gate earns its keep.
Wherever commercial traffic crosses a gate, Adaptive Freight Gate settles the questions of weight, hazard, and condition in one pass — and writes the audit trail for you.
Ro-Ro Ports
Every truck arrives with its hazmat code logged, its weight verified, and its condition baseline captured — before the freight ramp opens.
Ferry Freight Decks
Dimensions and WIM weights stream straight to the manifest. Disputes settle from a single photograph, not days of paperwork between operator and haulier.
Cross-Border Routes
Centralised gate processing for international ferry corridors — every load weighed, classed, and chain-of-custody captured for customs.
Weighed, cleared, and matched — on your systems.
The freight record doesn't stop at the gantry. It becomes your weight-compliance proof, a customs-ready document, and the data an integrator matches against every booking — all on open standards you control.
Weight compliance, on the record
Where weigh-in-motion is fitted, every truck is weighed in motion — per-axle and gross, at lane speed. Overweight loads are flagged before they reach the deck — and every weighing is time-stamped and exportable as weight-compliance evidence for enforcement and audit.
Customs-ready records
Each crossing writes a structured, time-stamped record — plate, trailer or container ID, hazmat class, weight, and images — through documented APIs. Share it with customs and enforcement on open standards, with no re-keying and no proprietary export.
Pre-arrival matching
GDS stores every gate read. Your integrator connects it to your own ticketing, TOS, or SAP to check each booking against what actually arrives — so a cleared truck flows straight through and a mismatch is caught before the booth.
INTEGRATOR-BUILT · ENABLED BY GDSCOMMON QUESTIONS
What operators ask about the freight gate.
Does the truck have to stop?
No. It's a free-flow gate: trucks pass at a near-constant 30 to 70 km/h without stopping or tailgating. The full inspection — identity, hazard, dimensions, weight, occupancy and images — assembles before the unit clears the gantry.
What happens to a vehicle outside the measurement range?
It's still recorded — every event is captured. The contracted accuracy figures apply within the design envelope (0.6–2.6 m wide, 1.5–4.5 m high, 2.2–21.5 m long, axle loads 400 kg–20 t); above those limits the unit is still logged, the contracted accuracy figures simply no longer apply.
Is weigh-in-motion included?
WIM is an option. When fitted, high-speed Kistler weigh-in-motion clocks gross weight, per-axle weight and axle spacing at lane speed — no weighbridge, no stop. Without it, every other measurement (identity, hazard, dimensions, class, occupancy, condition) still runs.
NEXT STEP
See Adaptive Freight Gate in action.
Show us your gate layout and freight mix. We will scope the right hazmat, weighing, and side-imaging configuration with you.