Telediagnosis and maintenance of the ship from land, using principal component analysis to compress acquired data offshore

At sea, voice and data communications have virtually global coverage via satellite. Satellite communications are increasing the bandwidth and lowering the cost, but are still far from levels that are in earth. The Principal components analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique used for lossy or non exact compression data; is a common tool for the search of pattern of multidimensional data sets. The assertion of this study was the possibility of using the PCA theory to compress, with sufficient accuracy, the large amount of data that are collected on board, and then send them all via satellite, in a cheaper or/and faster way than traditionally. This strategy is appropriate for decision making about telediagnosis and maintenance of the ship using ground equipment. Consequently, significant savings are achieved in telecommunication costs and telecommunication times.