Navigational Data Display System between Ships and Land Using Mobile Data Communication

Abstract

This study proposes the marine navigation support system which provides video images and states around the target vessel. Approximately 80 percent factors of marine traffic accident is human error when we check the report for the last 5 years. Due to the shortage of domestic vessel crew and the human cost cutting, the number of domestic vessel crew has been decreasing and the rate of human error has been increasing. In order to lighten the work load of crew, we designed the system which supports watching from a distant place. Because of taking a high cost, video streaming between the ship and the land is difficult. In this paper, we achieved low delay video streaming at low cost from the cameras which installed at vessel main mast at by mobile data communications. In addition to video distribution, we get the data from nautical instruments and AIS. Owing to display these information on video images, we propose the displaying navigation status system which can grasp the states around the target vessel at a low delay from the land.