Monitoring and control system

Being a specialist in the design and manufacture of high technology electronic and mechanical systems for high speed commercial vessels and yachts, Rodriquez marine systems  introduces the advanced AMS, Automated Monitoring System.

AMS has an open architecture system and such can be customized to the needs of any vessel. The AMS is fully complient with the lates HSC Code requirements and is approved by all major classification societies such as ABS, RINa and Bureau Veritas.

AMS is a dedicated ship management system and can be designed solely for the propulsion and/ or electrical generation plant or can include all shipboard systems thereby providing a completely integrated automatic system.

Being a complete system, the AMS can be installe don commercial vessels requiring 1AQ1 Classification but is also practical enough to make it well suited for larger pleasure craft.

The hardware is based on well proven commercially available compnents that can be easily serviced or replaced should the need arise, thereby providing peace of mind and ease of maintanence for the owner.

The basic system includes two servers to provide %100 system redundancy. Additional units can be installed as servers or clients. All stations are interconnected by boýth a primary and secondary high speed data network. Each control station is a multifunction device that incorporates all of the information with selectable priorities managed by the operators.

The supervision software is designed according to the vessel requirements and is based on a control SCDA function with all information presented both graphically and in color. At each control station, at least one graphic page is provided. The data is presented in a "Quick view" format to allow crew with limited experience with the system to quickly and easily understand the information.

When an alarm occurs, the warning is visually displayed regardless of the current display on the screen.

All alarms and primary information, i.e. fuel consumption and engine monitoring, are transmitted to the onboard paging system. This allows for trend analysis of the data which can be archived and then transmitted to a shore facility for remote monitoring and diagnosis of the systems. Several computer networks can be connected to the same system depending on the complexity or degree of safety required.

To Guarantee continued operation even during a failure of the supervision system or damage to the network, PLC's are locatred throughout the vessel in the vicinity of the monitored equipment.


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