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The converged wireless platform for smart ports

Private 5G or Wi-Fi is a false choice. Get Private 5G and Wi-Fi - at a lower cost than upgrading traditional enterprise Wi-Fi. Layer on Starlink to extend reach across the yard, the quayside, and remote berths. One platform delivers deterministic, secure connectivity to every terminal tractor, crane, camera, and worker keeping global trade moving.

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The converged wireless platform for smart ports

Deployed in 25+ leading port & terminal customers, including 15+ Fortune 500.

/ In the field

Celona across the terminal

190-acre port · 8 indoor + 4 outdoor APs

/ PHYSICAL AI

Physical AI is transforming ports and terminals

From the quayside to the container yard, ports are filling with physical AI - autonomous terminal tractors and AGVs, remotely operated and automated RTG cranes, machine vision and AI surveillance, and sensor-driven equipment that sense, decide, and act in real time, coordinated by software agents working around the clock.

Ports are large outdoor spaces stacked with metal container leading to weak RF penetration, dead zones and cost that climbs with every gap. No one technology - Wi-Fi, private 5G, public mobile or satellite - can serve all the port needs across dense steel, stacked containers, and sprawling outdoor yards. Celona Orion is the agentic converged wireless platform tackling this issue.

McKinsey estimates port automation has the potential to cut terminal operating expenses by 25-55% and lift productivity by 10-35% - gains that depend on a network able to carry autonomous, machine-speed operations.

- McKinsey, “The future of automated ports”

/ The platform

Why Celona Orion for smart ports?

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Converged

No more coverage gaps, wireless silos

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Deterministic

Guaranteed latency & mobility

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Agentic management

Run a multi-wireless network with a lean team

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Trust designed in, not bolted on

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Fewer APs, lower install and 3-year cost

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Converged

No more coverage gaps, wireless silos

The challenge

The real world doesn’t run on one technology. Wi-Fi, private 5G, public mobile, and satellite each have its merits and challenges. However, managing multiple networking silos has always been a challenge.

Celona Orion offers

Every radio as one fabric - one operational model and one security model; coverage and security follow devices across quay, yard, and gate
Celona Wi-Fi APs for stationary, high-bandwidth endpoints - laptops, printers, scanners etc.
Celona 5G LAN APs for mission-critical mobile assets (terminal tractors, AGVs, cranes, PLCs)
Public mobile, brought in - extend the same network and policy beyond the gate onto public 5G for drayage trucks, off-dock rail, and wide-area tracking
Satellite backhaul with Starlink in combination with AP-only AerFlex allows deployment in just a couple of days anywhere in the world.
Wi-Fi has the spectrum; private 5G has the reliability - no forced choice, and one team runs all of it.

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Deterministic

Guaranteed latency & mobility

The challenge

Physical AI doesn’t tolerate jitter, dead zones, or “best effort.” Wi-Fi is structurally unable to guarantee the latency, coverage, and service-level control autonomous vehicles, remote cranes, and safety systems require.

Celona Orion offers

Agentic segmentation & allocation of network resources by application - high-uplink cameras, sub-30 ms vehicle control, deterministic PLC control for remote cranes
MicroSlicing™ guarantees latency and throughput per device, per application - safety-critical traffic (5QI/7) isolated from the rest, no contention
Seamless vehicle mobility at speed - validated with AGVs at 60K+ handovers per day at 25 mph, no dropped sessions
Resilient to RF noise - dedicated mid-band spectrum and higher-powered radios cut through cranes, containers, and ship-side interference
Deterministic from the radio up - performance committed by design, not averaged after the fact.

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Agentic management

Run a multi-wireless network with a lean team

The challenge

A port runs around the clock, and every new wireless technology piles on another tool and learning curve a lean IT/OT team can’t absorb.

Celona Orion offers

Celona Orchestrator - an agentic operations plane for your whole converged network
AerConnect - open-source on-device agent that gives robots and AI devices the intelligence to choose the right technology for the moment and roam the whole fabric
AI-native interfaces open the network's data and capabilities to your skills, agents, and IT stack
Skills codify Celona's expertise once - for both your people and your agents
Agents resolve and run workflows at machine speed; humans steer via any LLM
Lean teams run complex, mission-critical port networks.

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Trust designed in, not bolted on

The challenge

A port’s wireless carries the most sensitive operational and cargo traffic in the business - and, with internationally sourced equipment across the terminal, trust can’t be assembled from third-party components after the fact. Public wireless sends data off-premises.

Celona Orion offers

Traffic stays on-site and segmented - cargo and operations data never leaves the terminal
SIM-based identity per device - the model that secures global cellular, not passwords
AerLoc - zero-trust security for every device: per-crane and per-group micro-segmentation (one VLAN per RTG) and identity-aware policy from the radio to the edge cloud
End-to-end from a single trusted supply chain - one software stack built in-house, security architected into every layer
Full network visibility - integrates with existing firewalls, DHCP/DNS, AAA/NAC, and IT switching without a forklift upgrade
Built for machines, sensors, and autonomous systems as first-class users - not a network designed for laptops.

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Fewer APs, lower install and 3-year cost

The challenge

Covering a sprawling terminal with the wrong technology means ever more APs, cabling, and trenching across the yard - cost climbs faster than coverage, indoors and out.

Celona Orion offers

Optimal AP count - the right mix of private 5G and Wi-Fi; up to 80% fewer APs than a comparable Wi-Fi grid
Lower installation cost - fewer APs mounted on existing poles and power mean less trenching, cabling, and maintenance; no new civil works
Fewer components than legacy telco offers - Orion connects directly to your existing LAN, routing, and security policies
Lower network operations cost - agentic management runs the network with a lean team
Lower cost per square foot than enterprise Wi-Fi alone - Wi-Fi and private 5G in one subscription.

/ Use cases

Port and terminal operations in the new world

It lands as real work across the terminal: autonomous terminal tractors and AGVs moving containers across the yard, remotely operated RTG cranes run from a control room, machine vision and AI surveillance watching the perimeter and cargo, inspection drones on automated patrol, and connected workers safe alongside the machines.

/ USE CASE 01

Autonomous Port Vehicles (AGVs & terminal tractors)

/ USE CASE 02

Remote & automated RTG crane operations

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AI video surveillance & PPE compliance

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Connected worker & Personnel safety

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Drone inspection & monitoring

/ USE CASE 06

Fleet management & Telematics

/ USE CASE 01

Autonomous Port Vehicles (AGVs & terminal tractors)

Sub-30 ms guaranteed latency for real-time vehicle command and obstacle avoidance

100+ AGVs with seamless handovers at speeds up to 25 mph - 60K+ handovers a day, no dropped sessions

C-V2X links vehicles to dispatch and monitoring in real time; HD on-vehicle video streamed to the operations center

AerConnect embedded - on-device agent for seamless roaming across private 5G, Wi-Fi, public, and satellite

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Autonomous Port Vehicles (AGVs & terminal tractors)

/ USE CASE 02

Remote & automated RTG crane operations

One operator runs multiple rubber-tyred gantry (RTG) cranes from a central control room - fully automatic, semi-automatic, and manual remote modes

Live multi-camera CCTV to Remote Operation Stations with end-to-end video latency under 200 ms

Deterministic MicroSlicing QoS for PLC control traffic between the control-center PLC and on-crane automation

Per-crane network isolation (one VLAN per RTG) maps to private 5G segmentation and zero-trust security

Wireless backhaul replaces trenched fiber to every gantry - high bandwidth, low latency, enterprise QoS

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AI video surveillance & PPE compliance

1080p IP cameras, 4 Mbps uplink, sub-100 ms latency across perimeter and cargo areas

AI applications: PPE detection, mask detection, face recognition, fence-intrusion detection

MicroSlicing prioritizes video traffic (5QI/7) separate from other device classes

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/ USE CASE 04

Connected worker & Personnel safety

5G smart helmets with GPS positioning, fall alarm, SOS, voice intercom, and HD video backhaul

Electronic fencing (geofencing) for restricted-area access control; body-worn cameras with auto photo upload and geo-tagging

Zebra scanners, tablets, iPads, and push-to-talk devices supported

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Drone inspection & monitoring

Fully automated UAV inspection across terminal and yard; remotely set patrol routes, autonomous take-off/landing/imaging

LiDAR terrain acquisition and emergency command capability during incidents

Real-time video and telemetry over private 5G backhaul

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Fleet management & Telematics

Real-time tracking of trucks, loaders, and port equipment via on-vehicle gateways

iPad-based supervisor dispatch workflows; telemetry aggregated to the fleet system

On-vehicle 4K cameras for situational awareness and incident review - targets: <100 ms device-to-server, ≥10 Mbps

/ Proof

Real terminals. Real results.

Swipe through deployments across container terminals, quayside, and yard operations.

Marine container terminal - port of los Angeles / Long Beach (customer unnamed)

Full terminal-wide coverage with no blind spots; metered public-carrier data eliminated; full network visibility

Challenge - ~80 yard trucks collected container data over truck-mounted routers on a public macro network across a 190-acre port - spotty coverage, every byte metered and billed, no network visibility. Wi-Fi was impractical at that AP count; the operator demanded 99.999% availability.
Solution - Celona 5G LAN for the truck fleet - 8 APs with two sectors each cover the entire port, mounted on existing light poles with no new civil works; signal reaches trucks even where containers are stacked to max height.
Result - final drive test shows full coverage with no blind spots; five-nines availability per the customer SLA; data security improved with all traffic private and on-premises.

Solution scenario - remote & automated RTG cranes

Operators move from on-crane cabs to a central control room; one operator runs multiple cranes across automatic, semi-automatic, and manual remote modes.

Private 5G delivers the wireless equivalent of trenched fiber to every gantry - video under 200 ms, deterministic control-data response between control-center and on-crane PLCs, per-crane VLAN isolation - without civil works across the yard.

Marine container terminal - port of los Angeles / Long Beach (customer unnamed)

Full terminal-wide coverage with no blind spots; metered public-carrier data eliminated; full network visibility

Challenge - ~80 yard trucks collected container data over truck-mounted routers on a public macro network across a 190-acre port - spotty coverage, every byte metered and billed, no network visibility. Wi-Fi was impractical at that AP count; the operator demanded 99.999% availability.
Solution - Celona 5G LAN for the truck fleet - 8 APs with two sectors each cover the entire port, mounted on existing light poles with no new civil works; signal reaches trucks even where containers are stacked to max height.
Result - final drive test shows full coverage with no blind spots; five-nines availability per the customer SLA; data security improved with all traffic private and on-premises.

Solution scenario - remote & automated RTG cranes

Operators move from on-crane cabs to a central control room; one operator runs multiple cranes across automatic, semi-automatic, and manual remote modes.

Marine container terminal - port of los Angeles / Long Beach (customer unnamed)

Full terminal-wide coverage with no blind spots; metered public-carrier data eliminated; full network visibility

Challenge - ~80 yard trucks collected container data over truck-mounted routers on a public macro network across a 190-acre port - spotty coverage, every byte metered and billed, no network visibility. Wi-Fi was impractical at that AP count; the operator demanded 99.999% availability.
Solution - Celona 5G LAN for the truck fleet - 8 APs with two sectors each cover the entire port, mounted on existing light poles with no new civil works; signal reaches trucks even where containers are stacked to max height.
Result - final drive test shows full coverage with no blind spots; five-nines availability per the customer SLA; data security improved with all traffic private and on-premises.

Solution scenario - remote & automated RTG cranes

Operators move from on-crane cabs to a central control room; one operator runs multiple cranes across automatic, semi-automatic, and manual remote modes.

/ 3-year cost

Evaluating 3-year cost

Wi-Fi, private 5G, or hybrid: which network is best for your terminal? Pick a scenario to model the real numbers.

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Indoor terminal / warehouse

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Outdoor yard / quayside

Customize with the pricing estimator

Model your own floor - area, device mix, refresh path - in the pricing estimator. Compare Celona private 5G vs. Wi-Fi and private cellular alternatives with your real numbers.

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Indoor terminal / warehouse

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Outdoor yard / quayside

Customize with the pricing estimator

Model your own floor - area, device mix, refresh path - in the pricing estimator. Compare Celona private 5G vs. Wi-Fi and private cellular alternatives with your real numbers.

Try the pricing estimator Read blog

/ Certified devices

Certified for ports & maritime

Certified form factors and a growing ecosystem of device makers - all on Celona 5G LAN. Modernize port workflows with private 5G while keeping support for legacy Wi-Fi-only devices.