Surveying is a mobile job, it involves taking decisions in the field and reporting these back to the DNV database and the ship/owner/yard.

Todays tools to support the surveyor to carry out these tasks are the paper copies of the rules and instructions and the notebook and camera.

Tomorrows tools may be a pocket PC with integrated camera which will be able to give access to all rules and IS, to display all drawings and the 3D model, to browse all history of the vessel, to browse history of similar vessels and similar cases and to allow notes and pictures to be entered directly into the format of the database. It may also allow for mobile videoconferencing so that experts at MTP may be directly involved in the decisions onboard.

Work has been started to prepare for this future. The cases we have identified as interesting fall into the categories of

– Work Planning

– Decision support

– Data collection

– Guidance and demonstration

This presentation give a short summary of how we have started to work in this direction with some illustrations to show possibilities.

Mobile units (PDA, Wearable PC etc.)as tool for DNV surveyors and customers

Mobile units uses

•3DGM walk through•Mobile video conferencing

•Electronic checklists•3DGM to write to DB

•Hints, rules and instructions•Highlights of critical areas in 3DGM•History displayed in 3DGM•Mobile access to database browsing •3DGM/drawings to view configuration•Mobile video conferencing

•Electronic checklists

Use

•Work planning

•Decision support

•Data collection

•Guidance and demonstration

Means (ideas per Mar.01) Status / plan

Existing prototype

Existing prototype

Existing prototype

Possible prototype

Possible prototype with Telenor

Possible prototype with Telenor

Planned prototype

Existing prototype

Possible prototype

History and plan for mobile solutions

Mobile worker (DNV Research)

1999 2000 2001

MTP PDA group

PDABEC usecase BRIX flyweight

2002

Development

Activities

•List of ideas for application of mobile solutions

•Strategy for mobile solutions

•Resource for PDA’s on Intranet

•Electronic checklists in Nauticus

•IS/Rules on PDA

•3DGM on mobile device

•Support for mobile video conferencing?

•etc.

•Report from work with wearable PC

•Prototype of electronic checklists on PDA

•Report from work with electronic checklists

•Use cases for integration of Electronic checklists with Nauticus

Deliverables

Guidelines & Requirements Picture, Sound, Sketch, Text

Electronic checklist• Work planning

• Data collection

• Decision support

Rules and Instructions

• Decision support

3DGM and drawings• Decision support

• Data collection

• Guidance and demonstration

Mobile video conferencing with 3DGM

• Decision support

• Data collection

• Guidance and demonstration

Field worker encounters a problem

and asks for advice

Field Worker

Sharing of common view

Expert

Expert assists via video conferencing