DATA MEASUREMENT AND DISPLAY FOR SHIP SAFETY

The author feels that it is time to take a long, hard look at how information is presented to the mariner. In this article, he first discusses typical ship's measurements, which he categorizes as pertaining to: navigation, the environment, vessel safety and comfort, machinery, cargo, and alarm conditions. He then discusses the need to present these measurements in a way that makes the information easily assimilable. He describes data networking, which enables measurements from all parts of the ship to be transmitted to a data center over a single cable or fiber optic link, as one possible method for rationalizing ship measurements and presenting data for the greatest benefit to the mariner and operator. An illustration of such a network is the system developed for the Lloyd's Register Voyage Data Recorder, the so-called "Black Box."

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Journal article
• Authors:
  • Cuffe, R W
• Publication Date: 1989-1

Media Info

• Pagination: 2 p.
• Serial:
  • Safety at Sea International
  • Issue Number: No.238
  • Publisher: DMG World Media, Limited
  • ISSN: 0142-0666

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Event data recorders; Fiber optics; Information display systems; Measurement; Networks; Ships
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data; Shipboard
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00657206
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Maritime Technical Information Facility
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 21 1994 12:00AM