TVELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

ON MARINE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES

Dedicated to the 40th Anniversary of the
Faculty of Shipbuilding of the TU-Varna

MONITORING SYSTEM OF CARGO

SECURING ON SHIPS BASED ON
WIRELESS TRANSFER OF DATA
I.IVANOV 1), P. GEORGIEV1), H. PIROVSKI1),
S. STANKOV1), H. GIGOV2), St. STANEV3)
1)Technical University of Varna: 2) Technosens Ltd.;
3) Mikrosistemi Ltd.

Varna, 25 September, 2014

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 Outline

 INTRODUCTION
 CARGO SECURING ON SHIPS
 WIRELESS MODULE FOR DATA TRANSFER
 EXPERIMENTS IN A MODEL BASIN
 CONCLUSIONS

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 INTRODUCTION

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) aims to provide

more reliable data on the real conditions of a structure
observe its evolution and detect the appearance of
new degradations.
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are a rapidly
growing technology.
• Bluetooth;
• Zigbee;
• Wireless USB;
• Wi-Fi.

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 CARGO SECURING ON SHIPS

Not proper cargo

securing could be IMO Res. A.714(17) –
“Code of Safe Practice for
dangerous Cargo Stowage and
Securing” (CSS Code).

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WIRELESS MODULE FOR DATA TRANSFER

Electronic measurement system- Bluetooth

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EXPERIMENTS IN A MODEL BASIN

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 RESULTS

Acceleration

1
Force, N

0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
-1

-2
Reference system
-3
Developed system
-4
Tim e, s

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 CONCLUSIONS

• In the model basin of TU a real problem of monitoring

the tension of lashings of secured cargo was
successfully modelled and tested;

• There have been successful tests with the wireless

module based on the technology Bluetooth, with
achieving a very good match (both phase and
amplitude) of the results with an alternative system for
recording and wireless data transmission

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 CONCLUSIONS
Further Development
• Development of industrial design of a compact unit
containing stress sensor and module for wireless
data transmission;

• Establishment of a system for monitoring especially

responsible and loaded marine structures, through a
preliminary FEM analysis to localize problem areas
and an installation of above mentioned unit for
monitoring these areas;

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Tank you for your attention!

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