In order to successfully meet the Lynceus2Market objectives and goals, the consortium has undertaken a large number of innovation activities in the period between June 2015 and November 2018, which have led to several achievements in the following areas.
Large-scale people localisation in ship: Technological enhancements on the embedded devices have brought substantial improvements in localisation, low-power communication, and efficient networking. Optimisations of wireless modules and communication/ networking interfaces have entailed improvements in miniaturisation, hardware design, power management and packaging, achieving maximum compliance with user acceptance, and maximum adaptability with projected operational scenarios.
Passenger status monitoring: Behavioral alerting has been implemented, introducing the design of a “high-end” bracelet which integrates full functionalities, and targets special passenger groups.
Emergency progress/escalation: A significant number of technological enhancements for situation escalation monitoring were delivered, including redesign of data feed interfaces, introduction of visualisation-related and situation awareness algorithms for big-data.
Passenger counting and identification: Enhancements in the data exchange format, database synchronization, middleware architecture, output data structure and visual representation model were delivered. In order to comply with large passenger vessels, the interface of the counting and identification device was redesigned in order to be compatible with existing bracelets and key-cards used for cabin access and wireless onboard transactions.
Safe evacuation and emergency management decision support: We delivered enhancements in data fusion, decision support and expert system algorithms, localisation, tracking, mustering, counting and identifying subsystem design and logic. The central database schema was reformed, and a new data fusion logic was applied, to maximise efficiency. All enhancements were verified using large scale simulations with actual drill data, to ensure compliance to large passenger ship deployments.
People localisation in sea: Innovation activities included the development of both the technological amendments to the current state of the art (overboard tag and radar, new UAV design), as well as amendments to response procedures and practices.
Piloting and demonstration activities during this project have produced a large-scale deployment of the onboard and overboard systems, over a period that spanned for more than a calendar year, providing feedback and insight on the system capabilities, user-acceptance, and market penetration capacity.
Market replication activities involved reports by market-driver players and associations within the consortium, dissemination activities promoted the project results, and standardisation activities have initiated an ISO standard for onboard people localization. Finally, exploitation activities have led the consortium to prepare itself for market uptake in the near future.
