Integrated vessel monitoring and control system
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Abstract
A vessel monitoring and control system. Data indicative of operational conditions for vessel systems is transmitted from the vessel to one or more remote sites and commands are received from the one or more remote sites for controlling the vessel systems. Multiple transmitting and receiving components are available on the vessel for communicating with a variety of different communications systems at the remote sites.
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59 Claims
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1-39. -39. (canceled)
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40. A vessel monitoring system for monitoring systems on a plurality of vessels and for communicating system condition information from the plurality of vessels to a remote site, the vessel monitoring system comprising:
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a plurality of sensors onboard each of the plurality of vessels, each of the plurality of sensors for monitoring one or more vessel systems;
a plurality of communications components onboard each of the plurality of vessels for communicating with the remote site, wherein each of the plurality of communications components communicates with the remote site according to a different communications methodology; and
a controller for selecting a one of the plurality of communications components to communicate with the remote site, wherein a selected one of the plurality of communications components is capable of establishing a communications link with the remote site, and wherein the system condition information is communicated to the remote site using the selected one of the plurality of communications components. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59)
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