Morariu, A.-R., Strandberg, A., Iancu, B., Srbova, L., Solis, J., Kankaanpää, P., & Björkqvist, J. (2025). Spectral Analysis of Maritime Communication Systems of Vessel Engine and Control Room. In 17th Symposium on High-Performance Marine Vehicles (pp. 199-208)
This is a companion repository for the manuscript,
containing the image data processing workflow implemented in Python and Nextflow.
The maritime industry is increasing autonomy, reliability and energy efficiency by installing more digital equipment onboard. The number of sensors, computing resources and human interfaces is increasing, while the traditional way to interconnect equipment is through cabling. The use of wireless technology for onboard equipment interconnection is an interesting option to decrease installation costs, but the industry is reluctant due to uncertainty of performance and reliability of such technology. This paper presents the results of an on-ship test campaign measuring the electromagnetic spectrum in the control room and the engine room of a ship. The objective is to find out the variation of the spectrum, if there are significant disturbances visible from onboard equipment and based on this make an estimate on the applicability of wireless technology.
The workflow has been built using Python 3.12. The library dependencies are in requirements.txt, and data sources are available upon request.
Make a local copy of nextflow.config.example to nextflow.config.local. Enter the configuration variables in nextflow.config.local.
nextflow run main.nf -c nextflow.config.loca -resume
Original data is available upon request. Please contact the manuscript's corresponding author.
If you use any part of this software or the manuscript, please cite:
@inproceedings{2a5cb735ac894002a845ecd003d1445e,
title = "Spectral Analysis of Maritime Communication Systems of Vessel Engine and Control Room",
abstract = "The maritime industry is increasing autonomy, reliability and energy efficiency by installing more digital equipment onboard. The number of sensors, computing resources and human interfaces is increasing, while the traditional way to interconnect equipment is through cabling. The use of wireless technology for onboard equipment interconnection is an interesting option to decrease installation costs, but the industry is reluctant due to uncertainty of performance and reliability of such technology.This paper presents the results of an on-ship test campaign measuring the electromagnetic spectrum in the control room and the engine room of a ship. The objective is to find out the variation of the spectrum, if there are significant disturbances visible from onboard equipment and based on this make an estimate on the applicability of wireless technology.",
author = "Andrei-Raoul Morariu and Andreas Strandberg and Bogdan Iancu and Linda Srbova and Junel Solis and Pasi Kankaanpää and Jerker Björkqvist",
year = "2025",
month = may,
day = "7",
language = "English",
pages = "199--208",
booktitle = "17th Symposium on High-Performance Marine Vehicles",
publisher = "HIPER",
address = "Tullamore, Ireland",
}