Fragmented systems are the real cost, and nobody measures it precisely.
Port clients know their systems are siloed. What that fragmentation actually costs shows up in four places:
Equipment that was not designed to connect
Modbus crane PLCs, BACnet shore power, MQTT yard sensors, a REST TOS. Each procured separately, never designed to connect.
Maintenance that reacts instead of anticipates
A motor degrading over three days trips no threshold alarm. By the time it fires, the crane fails mid-call.
No shared operational picture
The superintendent switches between five screens during a vessel call; correlating a fault needs someone who knows all five.
Compliance deadlines that are no longer optional
Modbus crane PLCs, BACnet shore power, MQTT yard sensors, a REST TOS. Each procured separately, never designed to connect.
Connect what you have. See it in one place. Act before it becomes a failure.
TwinWorX sits on top of your existing systems. It connects to them, correlates their data, and turns it into decisions your teams can act on.
Connect the whole terminal, without ripping anything out
One layer reads Modbus, OPC UA, BACnet, DNP3, MQTT, Kafka, REST, plus PLC drivers. No OEM replacement, no bespoke middleware.
Energy and carbon without new meters
Virtual meters derived from current and voltage you already collect; carbon impact per fault against a defensible target pathway.
Catch faults on the trend, not the threshold
Rules evaluate live data against historical trends and fire before the crane trips, with cost impact and an auto-opened work order.
Structural health on the quay
Tilt, strain, tension and displacement sensors watched for gradual drift, flagged long before a manual inspection would catch it.
One alarm stream instead of five screens
Alarms from every system normalized into one priority-ranked stream; co-occurrence analysis surfaces root cause and suppresses symptoms.
One terminal, or a portfolio
A geospatial map with location-based alerts and cross-terminal benchmarking; monitor sites across time zones, no installed client.
Where terminals get value first.
Ten port use cases are mapped point-for-point against platform capabilities in the downloadable brief. These are the six that pay back fastest.
Predictive maintenance for all heavy equipmentPredictive maintenance for all heavy equipment
Vibration, temperature, hydraulic pressure and motor load watched for the degradation pattern before failure.
Quay wall and marine infrastructure
Tilt, strain and tension sensors watched for gradual drift, overlaid on a model of the structure.
Energy management and decarbonization
Rules evaluate live data against historical trends and fire before the crane trips, with cost impact and an auto-opened work order.
Safety and hazard monitoring
Mandatory acknowledgement and auto-escalation for dangerous goods, with SMS notification and a full audit trail.
Unified operational view
Live telemetry from every system in one interface with role-based views; 2D/3D visualization and scenario analysis.
Multi-terminal portfolio
A single interface across every terminal with cross-terminal benchmarking and team-scoped dashboards.
Gartner: Tech Innovator, Digital Twins for ET/OT Providers
Verdantix: Challenger, IoT Digital Platforms for Building Operations (2024)
Microsoft: Managed Partner, Azure Marketplace
Digital Twin Consortium: Member since Inauguration
Built for the way port OT actually works.
The three questions every port security and procurement review asks, answered up front.The three questions every port security and procurement review asks, answered up front.
Runs on cloud or on-premises, air-gapped if required
The connectivity layer runs on local hardware inside the terminal's OT network and can operate fully air-gapped, pushing data outward only on outbound channels. Cloud is optional, not required.
No vendor lock-in, by design
Built on open standards: Project Haystack, Brick Schema, DTDL. The specification belongs to you and governs future procurement.
Enterprise security posture, documented
Token-based auth with RBAC across all services and a unified audit trail; IT controls independently assessed against ISO and SOC.
Leading a port infrastructure engagement? We're the OT layer behind it.
e-Magic works with engineering and professional services firms who own the port client relationship. We are not the prime. We are the technical integration authority that makes advisory work defensible and delivery real. When you develop an infrastructure or decarbonization strategy for a port client, e-Magic specifies and delivers the operational technology layer that strategy depends on.
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Operational Assesment
Interviews plus an audit of the existing OT environment: what runs, on which protocols, where risk is trapped.
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Strategy and specification
A vendor-neutral specification that belongs to the client and governs procurement.
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Integration design and delivery
The team that ran the assessment builds the system and stays embedded through commissioning.
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Ongoing partnership
Our longest active engagement runs 24 years, including the engineers who built the original system.