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Project and the manufacturer

iBoats

The iBoats project will be three year project lead by Metropolia University of Applied Science. It's founded by Tekesthe Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, including several co-operation companies working at the boat business. Tekes is the main public funding organisation for research, development and innovation in Finland.

The purpose of the project

The purpose of the project is to broadly examine the problem field of boats and to find an economically sensible solution to access-control, operations management in standardised ways.
The idea is to provide the equipment suppliers, boat manufacturers and suppliers a forum, where Finnish boat know-how in key areas can be raised to the top of the world. The project focuses on craft control systems, equipments working on-line as well as boat software.

Mets Trade

At the Mets Trade a group of students working at the iBoats project are searching the boat technology for Finish Boat manufacturers, boat suppliers and component manufacturers. The point of views at the searching are:

• Life-cycle management of electronics and software
• Management of the spare parts availability
• Electronics and software lifecycle management
• Availability management of spare parts
• Quality assurance
• Ensuring maintainabilityServiceability
• Modulation of electronics and software and reusability of plans and software
• The accepted solutions by rating agencies?

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• as well as the re-usability of planning and software
• Controlled updating of the electronics and software and electronics
• Solutions approved by the The accepted solutions by rating agencies?
• System reliability Reliability and maintainability of the system
• Clear criteria for the procurement of acquisitions in electronics and control systems
• Open standardized solutions , and interfaces between systems
• Keys The keys to the turnkey(kokonaistoimitus, avaimet käteen-toimitus) total supply management
• Ensuring suppliers' knowledge

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• the knowledge of the suppliers
• Knowledge of the electronics and software requirements of set by boat environment
• Importance of ratings/standards
• Technology knowledge
• Knowledge of the technology
• Knowledge required for the total supplyTurnkey's required knowledge
• Knowledge of the open source standard solutions
• Enables Provides its own strategies and visions of the on a boat market markets and provides market knowledge
• Comparision between own products and Benchmark products

The Participants

Elomatic Oy
Beijer Electronics Oy
Genera Oy
HT-Engineering Oy,
Marino Oy
Meripelastusseura Ry
Electric Ocean Oy
Metropolia Oy iBoats
Nomovok Oy, see also mdeb wiki
Rajavartiolaitos
Telemerkki Oy
TK-Engineering Oy
WB-Sails Oy
Tampereen Tekninen Yliopisto TTY, Rauman yksikkö
Satakunnan amk, Tekniikka ja merenkulku Rauma
Comprog Electronics Oy
Bitec Oy

Purpose of the Project

The project aims to examine widely the problem field of the boats and to find an economically sensible solution to control and for controlling functions in standard ways.
The idea is to provide a platform for the equipment suppliers, manufacturers of boats and boat suppliers. With this platform Finnish boat know-how in key areas of the project will be raised to the top of the world.
The project focuses on craft control systems, equipment operation in the network and and boat softwares.

Markets

Market research

• Comparison of own products to the benchmark products
• Volumes on the market segmentsSegment volumes
• Technologies in the near future
• Future opportunities
• Needs Identifying needs and problems
• The necessary knowledge required to market segments

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Technology

• Technological optionsalternatives
• Current StandardsStandardization
• Ratings and rating agencies
• Benchmark productsProducts

Research

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and Study

• Controllability of the boat, equipment control, condition monitoring and the use of the boat's systems
• Usability of the functions and user interfacesSecuring of equipments fault tolerance and functioning
• Equipment redundancy and backup operations
• Industry standards, in particular the CAN in Automation -association Association in Germany. The project is in close contact with this , the project will be closely consulted association, for example they/we? organized international conferences in the industry

Situation

At the moment, there are limited Finnish technology for steering the boat and for other equipment control.
NMEA0183 specification (from the USA) is widely used in navigation and assistive devices control. NMEA0183 is based on the transmit of ASCII signs in RS232, RS422 or RS485 serial bus. This standard is from 1980's. Another alternative is NMEA2000 which is based on standard SAE 1939 and CAN-protocol. CAN in Automation community has developed and open source device profile DS307 (Maritim). This would provide an open source European option, which would consist synergies also for machine technology.

The first technical target is to acquire newest knowledge and future opportunities of the industry for the boat manufacturers, equipment suppliers and craft suppliers. Another target is to develope open source and connectivity of devices and develope standard solutions for the area.

Result

• The boat's manufacturer can claim the right solutions for electronics and software suppliers
• The supplier of control devices knows requirements of the industry and is able to provide long life open source solutions for industry
• Boat supplier or builder can be assured about technical accuracy of partial or total supply
• Long life open source systems which allows further flexible developement of the boat's systems

Cases

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Result

• The boat manufacturers know how to claim the right decisions for the electronics and software vendors
• Governance requirements of the supplier knows the area and are able to provide open industry standards steered their life cycle and long-term solutions
• The boat buyer or builder can be sure that partial or total supply of technical accuracy
• Open long-life systems, which allow the boat to the development of flexible systems.

The Participants

Elomatic Oy
Beijer Electronics Oy
Genera Oy
HT-Engineering Oy,
Marino Oy
Meripelastusseura Ry
Electric Ocean Oy
Metropolia Oy iBoats
Nomovok Oy, see also mdeb wiki
Rajavartiolaitos
Telemerkki Oy
TK-Engineering Oy
WB-Sails Oy
Tampereen Tekninen Yliopisto TTY, Rauman yksikkö
Satakunnan amk, Tekniikka ja merenkulku Rauma
Comprog Electronics Oy
Bitec Oy