The Idea
The Smart Ships data router and server is a small energy save solution that can receive data from different sensors on board of the ship (first only NMEA compliant devices will be supported) and distributed it to subscribed WiFi devices that are able to display it like smart phones tablets and PC's.
The Smart Ship data router should also be able to filter before sending it out to avoid high data load and high energy consumption.
The Smart Ship data router should also contain an internal web application for displaying ships information via a web page direct from the The Smart Ship data router. This makes it un necessary to have a specific application running on a device for processing the ships information.
Background
On board of a ship more and more sensors are used for measuring the condition of the ship and giving information about the current environment as well as the position speed and direction of the ship.
This information comes from different sensors/devices and they have mostly there own fixed display.
With this project it will be possible to combine all these information to one device and sent it out a mobile device for displaying all the information or sent to other devices.
To avoid high data loads of the data the mostly not is used it should be possible to filter the incoming data and sent only the necessary data to the customer.
Solution
The MediaTek LinkIttm Smart 7688 looks like an ideal board for a prove of concept of this project. It contains uart's for the input data and wifi for the output.
The board can run openwrt this means that the are several possible solutions to create applications. Also an internal website for configuring the application as well as running a webserver for displaying data in a web browser.
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