Safety Grand Challenge: Safe Ship Boarding and Thames Safest River 2030

This report describes the first Lloyd’s Register Foundation Safety Grand Challenge and details how a collaborative, cross disciplinary design research and teaching methodology can provide a platform for a broad variety of participants to develop projects in a complex design safety environment, encourage collaboration and industrial involvement in design education and contribute to a balance between technological developments and the needs of people in the future. The Royal College of Art, generously supported by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and working with a group of industry stakeholders, investigated two major areas of risk within the maritime context: Sea Safe transfers from ship to ship, and making the Thames the safest city river by the year 2030. In a four month project, thirty two post graduate participants from eleven disciplines and six researcher-tutors at the Royal College of Art worked together and tackle these complex and wicked design challenges using a number of novel design methods. With a focus on finding cutting edge innovative design solution that would reduce risk on the ship to ship transfer and on increasing safety on the River Thames, the research project explored a wide range of approaches that encouraged collaboration, innovation and risk taking in design research practice. The different cultures, practices and knowledge bases led to an array of eight pioneering design solutions, ranging from product-focused innovations through to systemic solutions, material innovations and educational strategies. This report makes a case for the culture of design engaging with risk on water in the context of the wicked problems (Rittel & Webber, 1973; Buchanan, 1992) we identified, the methods and techniques used to tackle these challenges, how cross disciplinary projects can lead to novel insights, and how design education can be used to engage with industry and users to bridge the gap between technological innovation and user needs. Our conclusions support the view that this approach can develop implementable new design for safety solutions, incorporate the social, cultural and psychological human factors into safety design and balances users’ needs by engagement through an appropriate use of technology. Furthermore, we uncover insights into training designers for safety critical environments and the implications this has in terms of projects, cross disciplinarity and practices in the role of design thinking in general and relating to the context of risk and safety at sea and on rivers

Safety Grand Challenge: Safe Ship Boarding & Thames Safest River 2030

This report describes the first Lloyd’s Register Foundation Safety Grand Challenge and details how a collaborative, cross disciplinary design research and teaching approach can provide a platform for a broad variety of participants to develop projects in a complex design safety environment, encourage collaboration and industrial involvement in design education and contribute to a balance between technological developments and the needs of people in the future. The Royal College of Art, generously supported by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and working with a group of industry stakeholders, investigated two major areas of risk within the maritime context: Sea Safe transfers from ship to ship, and making the Thames the safest city river by the year 2030. In a four month project, thirty-two postgraduate participants from eleven disciplines and six researcher-tutors at the Royal College of Art worked together to tackle these complex and wicked design challenges using a number of novel design methods. With a focus on finding cutting-edge innovative design solutions that would reduce risk on the ship to ship transfer and on increasing safety on the River Thames, the research project explored a wide range of approaches that encouraged collaboration, innovation and risk taking in design research practice. The different cultures, practices and knowledge bases led to an array of eight pioneering design solutions, ranging from product-focused innovations through to systemic solutions, material innovations and educational strategies. This report makes a case for the culture of design engaging with risk on water in the context of the wicked problems (Rittel & Webber, 1973; Buchanan, 1992) we identified, the methods and techniques used to tackle these challenges, how cross disciplinary projects can lead to novel insights, and how design education can be used to engage with industry and users to bridge the gap between technological innovation and user needs. Our conclusions support the view that this approach can develop implementable new design for safety solutions, incorporate social, cultural and psychological human factors into safety design and balance users’ needs by engagement through an appropriate use of technology. Furthermore, we uncover insights into training designers for safety critical environments and the implications this has in terms of projects, cross disciplinarity and practices in the role of design thinking in general

An overview of emergency communication networks

In recent years, major natural disasters and public safety accidents have frequently occurred worldwide. In order to deal with various disasters and accidents using rapidly deployable, reliable, efficient, and stable emergency communication networks, all countries in the world are strengthening and improving emergency communication network construction and related technology research. Motivated by these situations, in this paper, we provide a state-of-the-art survey of the current situation and development of emergency communication networks. In this detailed investigation, our primary focus is the extensive discussion of emergency communication network technology, including satellite networks, ad hoc networks, cellular networks, and wireless private networks. Then, we explore and analyze the networks currently applied in emergency rescue, such as the 370M narrowband private network, broadband cluster network, and 5G constellation plan. We propose a broadband-narrowband integrated emergency communication network to provide an effective solution for visual dispatch of emergency rescue services. The main findings derived from the comprehensive survey on the emergency communication network are then summarized, and possible research challenges are noted. Lastly, we complete this survey by shedding new light on future directions for the emergency communication network. In the future, the emergency network will develop in the direction of intelligence, integration, popularization, and lower cost, and space-air-ground-sea integrated networks. This survey provides a reference basis for the construction of networks to mitigate major natural disasters and public safety accidents

Selected Papers from the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea

This Special Issue is devoted to recent developments in instrumentation and measurement techniques applied to the marine field. ¶The sea is the medium that has allowed people to travel from one continent to another using vessels, even today despite the use of aircraft. It has also been acting as a great reservoir and source of food for all living beings. However, for many generations, it served as a landfill for depositing conventional and nuclear wastes, especially in its deep seabeds, and we are assisting in a race to exploit minerals and resources, different from foods, encompassed in it. Its health is a great challenge for the survival of all humanity since it is one of the most important environmental components targeted by global warming. ¶ As everyone may know, measuring is a step that generates substantial knowledge about a phenomenon or an asset, which is the basis for proposing correct solutions and making proper decisions. However, measurements in the sea environment pose unique difficulties and opportunities, which is made clear from the research results presented in this Special Issue

Range Information Systems Management (RISM) Phase 1 Report

RISM investigated alternative approaches, technologies, and communication network architectures to facilitate building the Spaceports and Ranges of the future. RISM started by document most existing US ranges and their capabilities. In parallel, RISM obtained inputs from the following: 1) NASA and NASA-contractor engineers and managers, and; 2) Aerospace leaders from Government, Academia, and Industry, participating through the Space Based Range Distributed System Working Group (SBRDSWG), many of whom are also; 3) Members of the Advanced Range Technology Working Group (ARTWG) subgroups, and; 4) Members of the Advanced Spaceport Technology Working Group (ASTWG). These diverse inputs helped to envision advanced technologies for implementing future Ranges and Range systems that builds on today s cabled and wireless legacy infrastructures while seamlessly integrating both today s emerging and tomorrow s building-block communication techniques. The fundamental key is to envision a transition to a Space Based Range Distributed Subsystem. The enabling concept is to identify the specific needs of Range users that can be solved through applying emerging communication tec

Proceedings of the Second International Mobile Satellite Conference (IMSC 1990)

Presented here are the proceedings of the Second International Mobile Satellite Conference (IMSC), held June 17-20, 1990 in Ottawa, Canada. Topics covered include future mobile satellite communications concepts, aeronautical applications, modulation and coding, propagation and experimental systems, mobile terminal equipment, network architecture and control, regulatory and policy considerations, vehicle antennas, and speech compression

Changing tack : defining a strategic direction for innovation in the United Kingdom shipping industry

In the early 1980s technology presented the shipping community with an opportunity to offload its moribund communications infrastructure in favour of a satellite based electronic umbilical that promised to revolutionise communications with ships at sea. The development received less than enthusiastic support.Towards the end of the last century, twenty years after satellite communications offered a viable alternative, the vast majority of ships were still using Morse code as their primary means of communication. Despite attempts to delay its mandatory introduction the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) was the catalyst that ultimately led to the demise of this antiquated system of communication. A similar scenario exists in the navigation arena, where shipping organisations invariably wait for legislation to compel them to change.This culture of innovation resistance is ubiquitous in the shipping industry and its origins seem to lie mainly in historical traditions and in the isolation that has for centuries been intrinsic to life at sea. Competitive challenges driven by shrinking innovation life-cycles, increasing globalisation, and growing demands for improved customer service creates new opportunities for flexible organisations but presents serious threats to traditionalists.Cultural change in the UK shipping industry is an essential precursor to creating a climate in which innovation can flourish. The route to cultural change however demands a holistic approach and necessitates a fundamental understanding of the iterative processes of change. After illustrating this concept in a model I draw on empirical evidence and relevant theories to support my argument that a culture of innovation in the shipping industry can best be achieved through the development and adoption of organisational structures based on a virtual learning organisation

Modern Telemetry

Telemetry is based on knowledge of various disciplines like Electronics, Measurement, Control and Communication along with their combination. This fact leads to a need of studying and understanding of these principles before the usage of Telemetry on selected problem solving. Spending time is however many times returned in form of obtained data or knowledge which telemetry system can provide. Usage of telemetry can be found in many areas from military through biomedical to real medical applications. Modern way to create a wireless sensors remotely connected to central system with artificial intelligence provide many new, sometimes unusual ways to get a knowledge about remote objects behaviour. This book is intended to present some new up to date accesses to telemetry problems solving by use of new sensors conceptions, new wireless transfer or communication techniques, data collection or processing techniques as well as several real use case scenarios describing model examples. Most of book chapters deals with many real cases of telemetry issues which can be used as a cookbooks for your own telemetry related problems

Proceedings of the Third International Mobile Satellite Conference (IMSC 1993)

Satellite-based mobile communications systems provide voice and data communications to users over a vast geographic area. The users may communicate via mobile or hand-held terminals, which may also provide access to terrestrial cellular communications services. While the first and second International Mobile Satellite Conferences (IMSC) mostly concentrated on technical advances, this Third IMSC also focuses on the increasing worldwide commercial activities in Mobile Satellite Services. Because of the large service areas provided by such systems, it is important to consider political and regulatory issues in addition to technical and user requirements issues. Topics covered include: the direct broadcast of audio programming from satellites; spacecraft technology; regulatory and policy considerations; advanced system concepts and analysis; propagation; and user requirements and applications

FOSS4G 2016 Proceedings: Academic Program - selected papers and posters

This Conference Proceedings is a collection of selected papers and posters submitted to the Academic Program of the International Conference for Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G 2016), 24th to 26th August 2016 in Bonn, Germany. Like in previous FOSS4G conferences on national and international level the academic papers and posters cover an extensive wide range of topics reflecting the contribution of the academia to this field by the development of open source software components, in the design of open standards, in the proliferation of web-based solutions, in the dissemination of the open principles important in science and education, or in the collection and the hosting of freely available geo-data