Abstract:
The trend of development of marine automation is to integrate the Web-based remote monitoring system and management of the instruments and equipments in ship's engine room. This paper applies the web technology to m onitor and diagnosis the equipments in the ship's engine room, uses the LabVIEW-"Web Publishing Tool"-for system development as well as describes the system architecture, functions, hardware, and the details to ac chieve the goal. The remote client, through an interuet navigator, can send a command to the monitoring computer on site and acquire the running data of the equipments. In case the abnormal data appears that the shipma n cannot handle it, the system can take place to diagnosis the remote fault online.