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AI-based OCR for Terminal Automation

The future-proof partner for all smart gate, access control, and terminal automation needs.

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Building Operations Ready for What’s Next.

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Know What You Move. AI-powered OCR technology provides real-time visibility into every container, rail wagon, and vehicle moving through your gates and terminals.

Visy is a pioneer in optical character recognition (OCR), applied AI, and deep learning for camera-based automation solutions. Our expertise is based on 30 years of experience in research and development of industry-leading technology, and we have established a strong position as one of the top global vendors in OCR solutions, access control and gate automation for the logistics sector.

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SOLUTIONS & PRODUCTS

Smart Gate

Smart Gate offering brings together access control systems, user applications, and features designed to deliver world-class gate & terminal automation and perimeter protection.

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Container Handling

Vision technologies combining camera-based AI and OCR alongside management applications, deliver more automated and digitized container handling operations.

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Smart Rail

Smart Rail offering moves employees off the tracks and into the office through Visy Train Gate user application and OCR solutions, improving people safety while radically increasing handling capacity.

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Software Add-ons

Extend your system capabilities with disruptive AI products and standalone software solutions.

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AI-powered OCR and Access Management Systems for Automated Cargo and Asset Handling.

Wherever vehicles, people, and cargo need to be identified, our recognition technology gives you the visibility to monitor and manage what keeps your operations running. From ports and terminals to logistics hubs and industrial sites, we turn every asset that passes through into recorded, verified data.
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Industries

Built for the industries that keep the world moving – from manufacturing and logistics to container ports, terminal operations, and government authorities including customs and border control.

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Expertise

Three decades of hands-on experience across container terminals, rail yards, industrial facilities and border crossings – built into every solution we design, integrate and support.

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AI Powered Recognition of

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  • License plates
  • Vehicle location
  • Trailer location
  • Tyre & number of axels
  • Car model & color
  • Cargo type
  • UN and ADR lables
  • IMO labels
  • Container IDs
  • ISO codes
  • Weight markings
  • Seal presence
  • Handles
  • Door direction
  • Trailer numbers
  • Wagon IDs
  • Wagon tare
  • Wagon type
  • Wagon weight-table
  • Tank covers
  • Number of wagons
  • Damages
  • Number and position of containers

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Asia

Visy operates at the central asia region through trusted integrator and sales partners – delivering gate, yard and quayside automation to terminals and logistics facilities throughout the region.

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North Americas

Visy operates across Nort Americas region through trusted integrator and sales partners – delivering gate, yard and quayside automation to terminals and logistics facilities.

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South Americas

Visy operates across South Americas region – delivering gate, yard and quayside automation to terminals and logistics facilities.

Europe

Visy operates across Europe both directly and through a network of trusted integrator and sales partners, delivering gate, yard and quayside automation to terminals and logistics facilities.

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Africa

Visy operates across Africa region through trusted integrator and sales partners – delivering gate, yard and quayside automation to terminals and logistics facilities.

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Asia

Visy operates across the APAC region through trusted integrator and sales partners – delivering gate, yard and quayside automation to terminals and logistics facilities throughout the region.

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Australia

Visy operates across the APAC region through trusted integrator and sales partners – delivering gate, yard and quayside automation to terminals and logistics facilities throughout the region.

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5 000 000 + recognition events each day
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Frequently asked questions about terminal automation

What does Visy do?
Visy develops computer vision and AI-based OCR systems that identify markings in containers, vehicles, and cargo at ports, terminals, rail yards, and industrial sites. Our OCR systems read container IDs, detect placards and more, and feed that information into third-party systems – improving cargo handling accuracy and reducing manual checks at gates, cranes, and yards.
What does OCR mean in the context of terminal automation?
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the technology behind automatically reading container numbers, license plates, and other markings, instead of relying on manual entry. At a terminal, it’s typically paired with computer vision that also detects objects and conditions – not just characters.
What industries and applications does Visy serve?
Visy’s systems are used at container terminals, ports, rail yards, and industrial sites with controlled vehicle access or cargo movement. Applications include gate automation, crane-mounted OCR (RTG, RMG, STS), spreader-mounted OCR camera system, rail wagon and cargo identification, and site access control.
How does Visy fit into your existing terminal setup?
Visy’s systems are designed to integrate with existing terminal operations, feeding data such as container IDs and detection results into the systems already in use on site. The specific level of integration depends on the application and what the terminal wants to automate – from simple detection to full verification workflows.
What’s the difference between detection and verification?
Detection means that the system identifies with AI-based OCR something that is present – a container code, license plate number, a dangerous goods placard, a twistlock – as a standalone visual capability. Verification means checking that value against another source, such as a booking or manifest, which requires the system to be integrated into the terminal’s broader data flow. It’s worth asking a vendor which one (or both) they’re actually promising, since verification implies a deeper level of integration and process automation than detection alone.
What terminal automation applications does Visy provide?
Visy provides AI-based OCR systems at gates such as truck ocr portals, container handling cranes like STS, RTGs and RMGs, container handling equipment spreaders, rail yard systems like rail ocr portals, and industrial site’s access points. Each application is built around the same core detection and vision capability, adapted to the operations, camera position, traffic speed, and conditions specific to that checkpoint.
Where has Visy been deployed?
Visy’s systems are used at ports, terminals, rail yards, and industrial sites worldwide by companies such as APM Terminals, DP World, SSA Terminals, PSA International, Baltic Hub, DB Netze AG, the Port of Helsinki, Coop logistics center, UPM, and Metsä Group.
What differentiates Visy from other OCR providers?
Visy’s focus isn’t recognition technology on its own – it’s the full chain from camera to usable operational result. Our AI-based camera vision and OCR applications are built for accurate, dependable reads, but the real value shows up in what happens next: that data is integrated end to end into operations, so it comes out the other side transparent, accessible, and usable – not just produced and left as raw output. That’s backed by experience across the hardware, software applications, and integration layers as a whole, not a single component added on top of someone else’s setup.