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RELATIONSHIP OF ADVANCES IN ELECTRONICS AND MARITIME TRAFFIC, WITH CASE STUDY OF FALL DETECTION IN SMART CABINS

The advancement in bleeding-edge traffic systems is closely connected with advancement in electronics and automatic systems’ algorithms. Computer control of ship systems further contributes to automatization, and the development of robotic ships. The intent of the present paper is to connect the fields of traffic and control systems with advances in hardware/software components. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), radio-frequency identification (RFID), Internet of things (IoT), cross-platform and other technologies make possible further development of automated/smart traffic and IoT control of traffic flow, important for the optimization of greenhouse gas emissions by increasing the speed of traffic flow, disembarkation /embarkation of persons and loading/unloading of cargos. Although smart traffic has been developing on land, some efforts in this direction have also been made in marine traffic. The negative effect of the sea environment (and vibrations caused by a ship’s engines and natural phenomena) on electronic systems limits the available choices for hardware realization of smart systems. The reaction to these effects will determine the course of hardware/software development for maritime applications. The relationship between advances in electronics and the improvement of maritime traffic is difficult to comprehend, due to the time required for the new technologies to come to be used aboard ships. There are far more advanced electronics than those allowed to be used on ships due to various regulations. The paper describes potential IoT technology usage aboard ships, including the usage of accelerometers and gyroscopes integrated in smart phones/ watches to detect medical and dangerous situations aboard cruise/passengers ships. New fall detection algorithm based on data fusion is proposed.

Fall detection ; Internet of Things ; Smart Traffic ; PLC ; Smart Cabin ; Cross-platform Software ; Computer control of technical systems

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