Abstract
Abstract. Maritime study sites utilized as a physical experimental test bed for sensor data fusion, communication technology and data stream analysis tools can provide substantial frameworks for design and development of e-navigation technologies. Increasing safety by observation and monitoring of the maritime environment by new technologies meets forward-looking needs to facilitate situational awareness. Further, such test beds offer a solid basis for standardizing new technologies to advance growth by reducing time to market of up-to-date industrial products and technologies. Especially optical sensor technologies are well suited to provide a situational and marine environmental assessment of waterways for (i) online detection of relevant situations, (ii) collection of data for further analysis and (iii) reuse of data, e.g. for training or testing of assistant systems. The test bed set-up has to consider maintainability, flexibility and extensibility for efficient test set-ups. This means that new use cases and applications within the test bed infrastructure, here presented by a research port, can be easily developed and extended by installing new sensors, actuators and software components. Furthermore, the system supports reliable remote communication between onshore and offshore participants. A series of in situ experiments at the research port of Bremerhaven and in other maritime environments were performed, representing applications and scenarios to demonstrate the capability for the proposed system framework and design.
Highlights
Modern information and communication technologies hold the potential to improve the efficiency and safety of maritime traffic
We focus on the research port as one of these experimental platforms to facilitate research and testing of optical sensor technology, sensor data fusion, communication technology and data stream analysis tools
We introduce applications for the purposes of the physical test bed and present results from the optical sensor system set-up in the research port maritime environment
Summary
Modern information and communication technologies hold the potential to improve the efficiency and safety of maritime traffic. Rüssmeier et al.: Distributed optical sensors and sensor fusion framework form of an e-Maritime Integrated Reference Platform (eMIR) which enfolds tools for simulation as well as experimental physical test beds for new approaches and technologies In this way, eMIR includes logistics and hinterland connection, sustainable and compatible use of marine ecosystems and other shore-side aspects. We address current needs for an applicable and tested solution in form of a generic optical sensor system test bed for users in the port area and the maritime research community Through this we offer a potentially way to provide regional video live streams for participants onboard and ashore which has until now not been considered by supportive e-navigation services (Plass et al, 2014). We conclude the work by including a short outlook
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