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Contribution to ECDIS reliability

Integrated Bridge and Navigation Systems (IBS/INS) are designed to meet all IMO International Maritime Organization and classification societies' requirements all the way up to one-man bridge operation on modern merchant ocean going ships. Although main subsystem's Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) redundancy is mandatory onboard ocean going merchant ships, that is far from being truly redundant. Duplication of exact same equipment does not double reliability and availability of system. Statutory rules request to maintain ECDIS as part of safety plan. This procedure of updating, as part of obligatory maintenance, in praxis, leads to errors emphasized even by manufactures: either from provided equipment producer, or by nautical charts producer. If those systems errors occur, ship safety is in danger, because ECDIS producers suggest mariners to use paper charts backup in such situations. New approach in design concept of technical solution is presented and proposed.

e-navigation; ECDIS; redundancy; availability; reliability; backup

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