KR20030055893A - Service System for Providing Ocean Information - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An ocean information service system is provided to transmit the ocean information to a ship by forming a present position of the ship and the ocean information obtained from a ground service server as a database. CONSTITUTION: An ocean information service system provides the ocean information between a sea transportation system(100) and a ground service center(120) by using a wireless communication method. The sea transportation system includes a GPS receiver(104) for detecting a present position of the sea transportation system, a wireless transceiver(106) for transmitting and receiving the data between the sea transportation system and the ground service center, a relay(108) for amplifying weak wireless data signals, a sensor(112) for collecting the ocean information including the water depth information, the ocean current data, and the water temperature data, a ship database for storing the navigation information, and a control portion(116) for controlling each element. The ground service center includes a ground database(122) for storing the ocean data, a base station(124) connected to the wireless transceiver of the sea transportation system, and an ocean information service server(126) for processing the wireless data of the sea transportation system and providing the stored ocean data to the sea transportation system.

Description

Service System for Providing Ocean Information

The present invention collects marine information through a sailing vessel, transmits the collected marine information to a server using a mobile communication system, and processes the data received from the server to the processed data back to the vessel through a mobile communication system It relates to a marine information providing service system to provide.

Vessels such as cargo ships, fishing vessels, warships and passenger ships sailing through the sea, along with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers that receive the position of the vessel currently sailing from satellites, such as marine topographic and depth information It is equipped with a terminal consisting of a database containing marine information. Therefore, each ship can navigate along the desired route in the sea by grasping the position currently sailing through the GPS receiver, and in the case of a fishing vessel, the fish position where fish found by using a fish finder are gathered. You can also move to

Information such as terrain data without change in the sea or depth data changing with periodicity is available from a database mounted on the ship itself, but data that changes frequently at sea, for example, water temperature data on the sea surface, must be transmitted from land. Such water temperature data is provided by a data source on land, for example, the National Fisheries Research and Development Agency, and is transmitted through a data receiving device installed on a ship, for example, FAX. However, since these data transmission services are provided through satellites, there is a problem that a considerable cost of satellite communication fees are charged.

In addition, ships sailing through the sea can obtain information using sensors at their current location, but there is no way to inform other ships in the sea that need it.

Therefore, it is an object of the present invention to provide a service system that transmits the vessel's current location and marine information acquired from onshore servers to a database in need thereof.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a marine information providing service system according to the present invention;

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

100: vessel 102: vessel database

104: GPS receiver 106: wireless transceiver

108: repeater 112: sensor

116 control unit 120 land service center

122: terrestrial database 124: base station

126: Marine Information Services Server

According to the present invention for achieving the above object, in the marine information service system for providing marine information using wireless communication between the marine transportation system and the land service center, the marine transportation system,

A GPS receiver for searching a current position of the transportation system from a GPS satellite; A wireless transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with the land service center to establish a communication channel, and wirelessly transmit and receive data transmitted and received between the marine transportation system and the land service center through the established communication channel; A repeater for extracting, amplifying and radiating weak signals of wireless data transmitted and received from the wireless transceiver; A sensor for collecting marine information including depth data, depth data, algae data, and water temperature data measured at a current location of the sea transport system; A vessel database storing marine information necessary for navigation; And a controller configured to store the marine information collected from the sensor in the ship database, convert the collected marine information stored in the ship database into wireless data suitable for wireless transmission, and provide the converted marine data to the wireless transceiver.

The land service center,

A terrestrial database storing marine information necessary for the maritime transport system; a base station communicating with a radio transceiver of the maritime transport system; And process wireless data provided from the maritime transport system connected to the base station, update and store the processed data in the terrestrial database, and provide maritime data stored in the terrestrial database to the maritime transport system through the base station. It characterized in that it comprises a marine information service server.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a marine information service system that provides a database of marine data obtained from a vessel and provides it to a vessel in need thereof according to the present invention.

The marine information service system of the present invention collects various marine information on the sea, transmits the collected marine information to the land, and receives a marine information processed on land, such as a marine transportation system, for example, the vessel 100 and the marine vessel It is composed of a land service center 120 that processes and database the marine information collected in the 100, and provides the database of the marine information back to the vessel.

The vessel 100 includes a vessel database 102, a GPS receiver 104, a wireless transceiver 106, a repeater 108, a reamplification antenna 110, a sensor unit 112, and a controller 116.

The vessel database 102 has basic marine information such as oceanic topographical information and depth information such as an electronic chart required for navigation, and marine information transmitted from the land service center 120, for example, water temperature data and the like, and the vessel 100 itself. It stores various marine information measured by the sensor unit 112 of the. Each marine information stored in ship database 102 may be updated each time new marine information is provided, or may be updated using a diskette or CD as needed.

The GPS receiver 104 detects the current position of the vessel 100 through a GPS satellite (not shown) and displays the current position of the vessel 100 based on the GPS coordinates on the electronic chart.

The wireless transceiver 106 wirelessly communicates with the land service center 120 to establish a communication channel, and wirelessly transmits and receives all data transmitted and received between the ship 100 and the land service center 120 through the opened communication channel. As a means having a function of transmitting and receiving, it may be implemented as a conventional mobile communication terminal. The marine information received from the land service center 120 via the wireless transceiver 108 is provided to and updated in the ship's database 102, and the marine information collected in the database 102 is provided to the land service via the wireless transceiver 108. Provided to center 120.

The repeater 108 extracts a weak signal of wireless data, amplifies it with low noise, and compensates for the fact that it is impossible to transmit a wireless signal due to a long distance from the land system 120, and then re-amplifies it. Perform the function of re-radiating through.

The sensor unit 112 is towed by the vessel 100 and measured at a location where the vessel 100 in voyage is located, for example, depth data of the current position, depth data by tidal tides, tidal wave data, and current position Each sensor measures various marine information, including water temperature data. Various marine information measured by the sensor unit 112 is provided to the control unit 116 through the cable 114.

The controller 116 controls the radio transceiver 106, manages the ship database 102, and stores various marine information measured by the sensor unit 112 in the ship database 102. In addition, the control unit 116 converts the marine information stored in the ship database 102 into wireless data suitable for wireless transmission and provides it to the wireless transceiver 106 to provide various marine information through the wireless transceiver 106 in a land-based service. To the center 120.

Meanwhile, the land service center 120 includes a land database 122, a base station 124, and a marine information service server 126.

The terrestrial database 122 stores various marine information required for the ships in voyage, and the marine information stored in the database 122 is obtained from new marine information provided from the vessel 100 and other data sources on land such as the Fisheries Promotion Agency. It is updated with marine information provided.

The base station 124 is opened on the land and performs communication with the land mobile terminal or with the radio transceiver 106 mounted on the ship 100 according to the present invention.

The marine information service server 126 is connected to the base station 124, and processes the radio data provided from the vessel 100 through the base station 124 or various marine data provided from other data sources on land, The processed data is stored in the database 122 and updated. In addition, the marine information service server 126 is a content provider and performs a service of periodically providing marine information stored in the land database 122 to the ship 100 through the base station 124. . In contrast, the marine information service server 126 searches the on-shore database 122 and extracts marine information corresponding to the marine vessel 100 whenever there is a request for specific marine information from the sailing vessel 100. ) Can be provided.

Therefore, the ship 100 sailing the sea provides the marine information measured by itself to the land service center 120, and the land service center 120 is provided from the vessel 100 and other types of data sources on land. By being able to database the marine data of the ship, it becomes possible to provide more types of marine information to the ship 100.

In addition, the data communication between the vessel 100 and the ground service center 120 can be transmitted and received in a wireless manner to transmit various kinds of marine information to more vessels 100 at a lower cost, the vessel receiving such information More types of maritime information can be used to coordinate routes. This marine information is also applicable to fishing vessels, warships carrying out military operations, passenger ships and cargo ships.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and that various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the technical scope of the present invention.

Therefore, the ship sailing according to the configuration of the present invention collects various marine information necessary for sailing on its own, and provides the collected marine information to the server of the onshore data service center, and the server of the data service center receives from the ship. The marine information can be processed and stored in a database, while the marine information stored in the database can be wirelessly provided to the sailing vessel, thereby enabling the marine information to be serviced at low cost.

Moreover, the marine data databased by the present invention includes more kinds of marine data than before, and is updated each time new marine information is collected, so that new and accurate various marine data can always be used. The advantage is that it can be shared by all ships.

Claims (1)

In the marine information service system for providing marine information using a wireless communication between a marine transport system and a land service center, The sea transport system, A GPS receiver for searching a current position of the transportation system from a GPS satellite; A wireless transceiver configured to wirelessly communicate with the land service center to establish a communication channel, and wirelessly transmit and receive data transmitted and received between the marine transportation system and the land service center through the established communication channel; A repeater for extracting, amplifying and radiating weak signals of wireless data transmitted and received from the wireless transceiver; A sensor for collecting marine information including depth data, depth data, algae data, and water temperature data measured at a current location of the sea transport system; A vessel database storing marine information necessary for navigation; And A control unit for storing the marine information collected from the sensor in the ship database, converting the collected marine information stored in the ship database into wireless data suitable for wireless transmission, and providing it to the wireless transceiver; The land service center, An onshore database for storing marine information required for the marine transport system; A base station in communication with a wireless transceiver of the sea transport system; And Is connected to the base station to process wireless data provided from the sea transport system, update and store the processed data in the land database, and provide the sea data stored in the land database to the sea transport system through the base station. Marine information service system using a wireless communication, characterized in that it comprises a marine information service server.