An Agent-Based Remote Operation and Safety Monitoring System for Marine Elevators

The reliability of marine elevators are important because of the tough conditions in the marine environment. For the safety purpose, more than 26 safety lists shall be checked by persons when the ship is docked. However, its maintenance costs of the elevator increases as the rise of personnel expenses increases. Also the efficiency is highly dependent on the ability of the personnel but it is not feasible to provide expert maintenance services all the time. Therefore we propose an agent-based remote operation and safety monitoring system for the marine elevators through a shipborne gateway, called MariComm. So expert A/S personnel can inspect status of marine elevators and provide best maintenance service through the marine elevator management server whenever and wherever he wants. In our experimental analysis, we illustrated that the performance and reliability of the elevator can be improved through analyzing the accumulated data.