Ship data consolidated management method and device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11072403-B2
Application number	US-201615577219-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 26, 2016
Priority date	May 28, 2015
Publication date	Jul 27, 2021
Grant date	Jul 27, 2021

Abstract

The present invention relates to a ship data consolidated management method and a device for same. Accordingly, the present invention relates to a ship data consolidated management method and device, the method being characterized by comprising the steps of: collecting ship data from at least one piece of ship equipment; converting the ship data to a certain data format; and transmitting the converted ship data to an external device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An integrated vessel data management method, comprising:
collecting vessel data relating to the vessel from at least one vessel equipment;
converting the collected vessel data to a standardized digital data format by using an integrated vessel data management apparatus to apply a vessel data model (VDM) to standardize and define data associated with the vessel equipment, wherein the VDM defines a mapping relationship between a non-standardized format and the standardized digital data format, the mapping relationship being defined by a VDM configuration file that provides a mapping tool to a user of the integrated vessel data management apparatus, said VDM configuration file including metadata for defining information of each vessel based on the VDM, including a vessel part describing the structure of the at least one vessel equipment and hierarchically defining vessel equipment by systematic classification, a system part defining a system that collects the vessel data from the at least one vessel equipment, and a data type part describing the structure and attribute of the collected vessel data; and
transmitting the converted vessel data in the standardized digital data format to an external device,
wherein the integrated vessel data management apparatus identifies each vessel data according to a VDM Path in transmitting and receiving vessel data based on the VDM, the VDM Path representing a path designating rule for pointing to particular vessel data on the VDM.

2. The integrated vessel data management method according to claim 1 , wherein the standardized digital data format is Javascript Object Notation (JSON) format.

3. The integrated vessel data management method according to claim 2 , wherein the converting to the standardized digital data format comprises: extracting Key and Value by parsing the collected vessel data; and mapping the extracted Key and Value to the JSON format.

4. The integrated vessel data management method according to claim 3 , wherein the mapping comprises: receiving input of setting information for the mapping through the mapping tool; mapping the extracted Key and Value to the JSON format based on the setting information; and outputting the mapping results in real time through the mapping tool.

5. The integrated vessel data management method according to claim 1 , wherein the collected vessel data is in National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) format.

6. An integrated vessel data management apparatus, comprising:
a communication unit configured to transmit and receive vessel data relating to the vessel to and from external devices;
data collection apparatus for collecting the vessel data relating to the vessel from at least one vessel equipment; and
a control unit configured to take control of the data collection apparatus to collect said vessel data from at least one vessel equipment, convert the collected vessel data to a standardized digital data format, and transmit the converted vessel data to an external device through the communication unit;
wherein the control unit is configured to convert the collected vessel data to the standardized digital data format by applying a vessel data model (VDM), wherein the VDM defines a mapping relationship between a non-standardized format and the standardized digital data format, the mapping relationship being defined by a VDM configuration file that provides a mapping tool to a user of the integrated vessel data management apparatus, said VDM configuration file including metadata for defining information of each vessel based on the VDM, said VDM including a vessel part describing the structure of the at least one vessel equipment, a system part defining a system that collects the vessel data from the at least one vessel equipment, and a data type part describing the structure and attribute of the vessel data; and
wherein the integrated vessel data management apparatus is configured to identify each vessel data according to a VDM Path in transmitting and receiving vessel data based on the VDM, the VDM Path representing a path designating rule for pointing to particular vessel data on the VDM.

7. The integrated vessel data management apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the standardized digital data format is Javascript Object Notation (JSON) format.

8. The integrated vessel data management apparatus according to claim 7 , wherein the control unit includes an adapter to extract Key and Value by parsing the collected vessel data and map the extracted Key and Value to the JSON format.

9. The integrated vessel data management apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the control unit takes control to receive input of setting information for the mapping through the mapping tool, map the extracted Key and Value to the JSON format based on the setting information, and output the mapping results in real time through the mapping tool.

10. The integrated vessel data management apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the collected vessel data is National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) format.

11. An integrated vessel data management method, comprising:
collecting vessel data relating to the vessel from at least one vessel equipment;
generating vessel data in a standardized digital data format from the collected vessel data by using an integrated vessel data management apparatus to apply a predefined vessel data model (VDM) to standardize and define data associated with the vessel equipment, wherein the VDM defines a mapping relationship between a non-standardized format and the standardized digital data format, the mapping relationship being defined by a VDM configuration file that provides a mapping tool to a user of the integrated vessel data management apparatus, said VDM configuration file including metadata for defining information of each vessel based on the VDM, including a vessel part describing the structure of the at least one vessel equipment and hierarchically defining vessel equipment by systematic classification, a system part defining a system that collects the vessel data from the at least one vessel equipment, and a data type part describing the structure and attribute of the collected vessel data; and
providing the vessel data in the standardized data format to an external device,
wherein the integrated vessel data management apparatus identifies each vessel data according to a VDM Path in transmitting and receiving vessel data based on the VDM, the VDM Path representing a path designating rule for pointing to particular vessel data on the VDM.

12. The integrated vessel data management method according to claim 11 , wherein the VDM is defined by a vessel data model setting file.

13. The integrated vessel data management method according to claim 12 , wherein the vessel data model setting file is written in XML.

14. The integrated vessel data management method according to claim 12 , wherein the generating of the vessel data in the standardized digital data format comprises: extracting identification information and attribute information corresponding to the collected vessel data from the vessel data model setting file; verifying the validity of the collected vessel data using the attribute information; and mapping the collected vessel data to the standardized digital data format using the identification information.

Assignees

• Hyun Dai Heavy Ind Co Ltd
• Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Eng Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cheong Young Soo
• Park Ki Soo
• Ha Seong Min
• Song Chan Ho
• Kang Jong Gu
• Park Jee Hoon

Classifications

• G06F3/0661

  Format or protocol conversion arrangements · CPC title

• B63B71/00 Primary

  Designing vessels; Predicting their performance · CPC title

• H04B7/185 Primary

  Space-based or airborne stations; {Stations for satellite systems}(H04B7/204 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01C21/14

  by recording the course traversed by the object (G01C21/16 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06Q50/10

  Services · CPC title