Employment of Wireless Sensor Networks for Full-Scale Ship Application

In this study, basic experiments regarding the wireless sensor network were conducted on a 3,000-ton-class training ship as the first step in applying the ubiquitous technology to a real ship. Various application fields of the technology in terms of the provision of safety and convenience on a ship would be extracted through these experiments. To efficiently adopt the ubiquitous technology for ship application, it is necessary to identify the stateof-the-art ubiquitous technology and to prepare countermeasures against the harsh environment of a ship. Especially, the characteristics of the wireless sensor network were investigated at the test bed ashore as well as on a real ship to figure out the complementary items before full-scale ship application.