Adaptive Mobile Yard Scanner
Turn every Tugmaster into a moving inventory scanner. Three Lynet smart cameras on each Tug read every licence plate and trailer unit number in motion.
Live yard inventory, no clipboards required.
Mount three Lynet cameras on each Tugmaster and the entire yard becomes a continuously-scanned inventory. Plates, trailer unit numbers and movements stream into your yard inventory in real time.
Two Lynet cameras on the tractor roof scan the trailers parked to its left and right as it drives the aisle, and a third behind the cab reads the trailer it is hauling — capturing every trailer plate and the unit number stencilled on the trailer body at up to 15 km/h — with 11–12 km/h the sweet spot, slow enough for every parking space to get its own GPS fix. Each read is GPS-tagged and delivered wherever you want it: most operators take the images and the per-event metadata onto their own SFTP server and let their yard system — or a third party — pick them up from there. GDS is available if you want the platform, but it is not required. Either way the inventory updates itself with every routine trip: no driver action, no handheld scan.
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Live Yard Inventory
Always-on visibility of where every container, trailer and chassis sits — auto-refreshed by Tugmaster traffic.
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LOAD / DROP Direction
Every read records whether the tug was closing on the unit or pulling away from it — the signal a yard system turns into a pickup or a drop-off. The inference layer itself runs in your yard system or your integrator's, and is still being tuned in the field.
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15 km/h Coverage
Reads happen in motion at normal aisle speed — no need to line up or stop alongside the load. Around 11–12 km/h gives the best positioning accuracy.
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OCR Confidence Scoring
Every read carries an OCR confidence score, so your yard system knows which reads to trust and which to check. Additional yard or vehicle-mounted lighting may be needed to hold that confidence after dark.
SEE IT IN ACTION
The Adaptive Mobile Yard Scanner, in 47 seconds.
Watch a Tugmaster work the yard. The three Lynet cameras on the tractor — left, right and rear — read every licence plate and trailer unit number it passes at speeds up to 15 km/h. GPS tags each read, each read carries the direction the tug was moving relative to the unit, and the yard inventory updates in real time. No operator action, no manual scans, no clipboards.
No sound · 47 seconds · loops automatically
THE RECORD
What one drive-by writes.
Every routine tug movement is a survey. The cameras read what is parked either side and what is being hauled, and the router pins each read to the yard map.
Values shown are one illustrative event. Fields marked as an option are fitted only where a site asks for them.
What every drive-by records.
Each unit the tractor passes becomes one transaction — transmitted in real time over 5G / 4G-LTE, and buffered on board whenever coverage drops.
| Data | What's recorded | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Event metadata | Scanner unit ID, sequential transaction ID, timestamp. | every read |
| Trailer unit number | The operator's own ID number stencilled on the trailer body, plus the trailer plate, read by the OCR cameras. | confidence-scored |
| Position | GPS/GNSS coordinate of where the read happened. | per event |
| Motion | Tractor speed and direction of travel at read time — the raw input for LOAD/DROP inference. | per event |
| Direction | Direction of travel | per event |
| Inventory image | Still of the unit captured while passing by — colour by day, IR at night. | attached |
| Trailer Facade image | Still captured while attaching to a trailer — colour by day, IR at night. | attached |
Built for the tug, not the lab
Stationary collection is also supported where yard geometry allows safe positioning — the same kit, parked instead of moving.
HOW IT WORKS
Three cameras per Tugmaster — a continuous yard scan in motion.
Cameras read plates and the trailers' own unit numbers as the Tugmaster drives. Each event — pictures plus metadata — is dropped where your systems collect it, with onboard compute handling the heavy lifting.
Drive-by scan
Left, right and rear cameras pick up plates and the trailers' own stencilled unit numbers as the Tugmaster moves through the yard at up to 15 km/h — 11–12 km/h for the best positioning accuracy.
Onboard inference
The compute unit on the tractor runs OCR, plate recognition and confidence scoring locally — no cellular coverage required for capture.
GPS event tagging
Each read is fused with GPS, heading and timestamp, plus the direction of travel relative to the unit — the signal your yard system uses to infer LOAD and DROP.
Delivery & sync
Events land wherever you collect them — most operators' SFTP endpoint, or GDS if you run the platform — updating the live yard map, TOS workflows and the dashboards yard planners use.
HARDWARE STACK
What's on every Tugmaster
Per tug: three Lynet cameras reading every plate and trailer unit number on the move, and a GPS router that pins each event to the yard map before it is handed over to your systems.
3 PER TUG
Lynet
Adaptive Recognition's ultra-compact mobile ANPR camera — a full-metal, IP67 unit that images, reads, and geo-tags on the move. Two roof-mounted units scan the trailers to the left and right; one behind the cab reads the trailer being hauled. Carmen ANPR and event storage run on board the camera itself.
1 PER TUG
GPS Router
A rugged 5G/GPS router ties the kit together. Sub-metre GNSS pins every read to an exact yard position and heading — the raw input for LOAD/DROP inference and the live yard map — while the cellular link delivers each event to wherever you collect it, an SFTP endpoint or GDS, buffering on board when coverage drops and auto-resyncing.
The bolt-on kit also includes rooftop and rear mount brackets with fixed optical alignment — set once at install, no field calibration — plus ignition-controlled power from the tug's aux circuit.
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
- Lynet cameras for each tugmaster
- The GPS router that positions every read
- Vehicle mounting kit
- Globessey Data Server, on your own hardware (optional)
Provided by the port or its integrator
- Fitting the kit to the tractors, and the power take-off
- Yard-wide wireless coverage
- The SFTP server or endpoint the events are delivered to
- Integration into your yard or terminal operating system
Where Adaptive Mobile Yard Scanner earns its keep.
Wherever tugmasters move loads through a yard, Adaptive Mobile Yard Scanner turns every routine trip into a live inventory update.
Ro-Ro Yard Operations
Read trailer plates and chassis IDs as tugmasters move between vessel, holding, and freight gate. Live yard position flows straight into the terminal operating system.
Yard Inventory Management
Replace clipboards and end-of-shift counts with always-on inventory. Stockout, dwell time, and aging reports update themselves.
Tugmaster Fleet Operations
Per-tractor productivity, route playback, and idle-time analytics — all derived from the same Lynet cameras used for inventory.
READY TO DEPLOY
Make every Tugmaster movement an inventory event.
Adaptive Mobile Yard Scanner kits install in a single shift per tractor. Pilot programs typically run on 2-3 vehicles before fleet-wide rollout.