Vehicle/people access control system for security management in ports

Ports are opened infrastructures whose security is infl uenced by a plenty of parameters such as people/ vehicle fl ows. The movement of these fl ows must be accurately checked and controlled to ensure a correct management of security. In ports characterized by high fl ows, the security management must unavoidably use integrated access control systems that ensure a proper organization of the fl ows themselves. The present paper illustrates the work made to design and realize the integrated access control system of the most important commercial and tourist ports of Italy. Since the core of the access control system is represented by a server farm that must operate with a high effi ciency, to guarantee a fast response to the high fl ows of people and vehicles, the system is endowed with a loading balance mechanism of server farm itself, based on genetic controller, that ensures optimal operative velocities and performances, as demonstrated in the paper.