Design and implementation of upper layer computer network in marine engine room simulator

It is a key technique and a trend in ship automation development to marine engine room simulator. The available products used for monitoring and control usually consist of many distributed microcomputer units and one management personal computer. The functions are performed not on an upper layer monitoring and control in a computer network but in an independent personal computer. To overcome the disadvantage and to improve the reliability, real-time diagnosis abilities, it present a feasible design of the computer network and give the implementation of integrated collection and display for system data, video and audio signals with distribution of software in detail. This technique has been used on a cruise ship and performs well.