Maritime transport security A European research project provides draft amendments to existing VDR standards
1 March 2007 - 28 February 2009
France
In order to investigate just what might be required and achievable, the European Maritime Data Management (EMDM) project set up in March 2007 with €2.8 million budget. Its aim is to study and develop new applications, functionalities and proposals for specifications and standards for enhanced, interactive VDRs and electronic logbooks (ELBs).
EMDM project co-ordinator is the French company SODENA, specialised in on board navigation software such as ECDIS and RADAR, supported by Euroquality for the administrative and financial management of the project.
The consortium is composed of 8 partners including the three main European VDR and electronic logbook manufacturers : Consilium Navigation (SW), Kelvin Hughes (UK) and Kongsberg Maritime (NW), three SMEs : Avenca (UK), Euroquality (FR), SODENA (FR), the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and the University of Southampton (UK).
One intention, when the two-year project concludes in February 2009, is that it will deliver better and more objective analysis of the causes of incidents and accidents in European waters and subsequently lead to the improvement of maritime safety. The project has already placed much of its investigative work in the public domain at: www.euroqualityfiles.net/emdm/index.php.
Reports have been produced on (S)VDR legislation, VDR data technical access and handling, survey results and draft amendments for existing VDR standard, specifications for Low Cost VDR adapted for work boat have been write and prototype tried on board Fishing vessel in Brittany. These reports provide a useful retrospective view of VDR up to the inception of EMDM, and insight into how VDR could meet the challenge of the modern maritime environment. Equipment can take advantage of factors such as lower cost, higher density data storage capacity, increased processing power and the change of technology architectures based upon simple, robust, standardised communication networks that distribute data locally and globally.
EMDM project co-ordinator is the French company SODENA, specialised in on board navigation software such as ECDIS and RADAR, supported by Euroquality for the administrative and financial management of the project.
The consortium is composed of 8 partners including the three main European VDR and electronic logbook manufacturers : Consilium Navigation (SW), Kelvin Hughes (UK) and Kongsberg Maritime (NW), three SMEs : Avenca (UK), Euroquality (FR), SODENA (FR), the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and the University of Southampton (UK).
One intention, when the two-year project concludes in February 2009, is that it will deliver better and more objective analysis of the causes of incidents and accidents in European waters and subsequently lead to the improvement of maritime safety. The project has already placed much of its investigative work in the public domain at: www.euroqualityfiles.net/emdm/index.php.
Reports have been produced on (S)VDR legislation, VDR data technical access and handling, survey results and draft amendments for existing VDR standard, specifications for Low Cost VDR adapted for work boat have been write and prototype tried on board Fishing vessel in Brittany. These reports provide a useful retrospective view of VDR up to the inception of EMDM, and insight into how VDR could meet the challenge of the modern maritime environment. Equipment can take advantage of factors such as lower cost, higher density data storage capacity, increased processing power and the change of technology architectures based upon simple, robust, standardised communication networks that distribute data locally and globally.
Keywords
Maritime Transport