Toward Remote Control Center for Marine Operation: A Case Study of R/V Gunnerus

Today, with the rapid development of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things and digital twins, remote management of ship operations has promising prospects. In this paper, we present a remote control center solution, with an emphasis on sensor data collection, transmission, storage and representation. A research vessel named R/V Gunnerus is used a test bed. Taking advantage of onboard sensor data transmitted by MQTT and saved into local database, a dashboard is designed and developed to monitor marine operation and provide decision support in real time, and playback historical operations. Three case studies including real-time crane operation monitoring, ship docking replay, and ship motion prediction show that the proposed solution is effective in remote ship management.