An intelligent data acquisition and transmission platform for the development of voyage and maintenance plans for ships

The waterborne sector faces nowadays significant challenges due to several environmental, financial and other concerns. Such challenges may be addressed, among others, by optimizing voyage plans, and diagnosing as early as possible engine failures that may lead to performance degradation. These two procedures require a continuous stream of information acquired from a number of diverse sensors. Frequently, beside central storage and transmission of such information, it is necessary to provide an agile and robust infrastructure which will allow local storage and ad hoc input and manipulation of information, via a user-friendly interface. Our proposed intelligent data acquisition and transmission platform provides an efficient, scalable and low-cost approach.