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Whether you're on an 85' towboat on the Mississippi River or a 740' ro-ro vessel steaming down the East Coast, if there's an accident aboard your vessel you need to know the exact location of every crewmember. That won't be an issue if all crewmembers are wearing a small watch-like object on their wrists - called a wearable - and the vessel is outfitted with electronic nodes from Scandinavian Reach Technologies (Scanreach), Strum, Norway, a wireless IoT-mesh node network marketed in North America by Seacoast Marine Electronics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, under the name Connect-POB. The wearable - a form of wireless connectivity technology - assigns each crewman a number and sends out an electronic signal every three to five seconds that is picked up by electronic nodes mounted throughout the vessel and then forwarded to the wheelhouse. There the crewman's location is displayed on the vessel's general arrangement screen. "If there's a fire aboard a ship, you can see exactly where everybody is," said Henk van Heaven, director at Seacoast Marine Electronics. |