Prior to investing in the eWON Talk2M solution,
the genset manufacturer would need to send a
service engineer to the vessel, wherever it was
located in the world, in order to manually upload
condition monitoring data from the generating
sets. Not only was this costly, but also very time
consuming, when uploading weeks or months of
condition monitoring data.
On the oil rig supply vessel, an eWON VPN router
is installed on the inside of the exhaust stack,
as this location provided the most effective 3G
signal. The eWON is connected to the genset
manufacturer’s own data acquisition system for
the gensets. When the ship comes back towards
the coast and within 3G range, the genset
manufacturer can upload the data that its system
has been logging since the last upload. This
provides the company with a fast, efficient and
cost effective means of baselining (setting alarms
and triggers) the data coming off the gensets,
which is particularly important in the first few
days and weeks of installing new marine gensets.
Secure, mobile and modular
According to the genset manufacturer, eWON
Talk2M was the most suitable solution, as it
provides a two-way communications system
that is cost effective but also secure, modular
and mobile. The genset manufacturer can now
communicate with the equipment onboard the
vessel as if one of its service engineers were
sitting there right next to the equipment with a
laptop.
eWON’s Talk2M (Talk to Machines) is an Internetbased remote access support and diagnostics
service, available in the UK through Industrial
Data Communications company M.A.C. Solutions
(UK) Limited. The software offers a professional
platform with all the security, reliability and
traceability required by industrial and marine
applications. Talk2M is a unique, secure and
affordable service that enables OEMs, machine
builders and systems integrators to provide
remote maintenance, support and diagnostics
for machines in remote locations or onboard
marine vessels. Talk2M can be accessed
anywhere in the world, using secure Broadband
and other secure wireless connections.
The router installed on the oil platform supply
vessel is an eWON 2005CD industrial-grade
router with dual LAN/modem connectivity. As
well as being equipped with an Ethernet port,
the router also has a SIM card that enables the
genset manufacturer to access its equipment via
a 3G cellular network.
The eWON and Talk2M solution provides
another important differentiator for the genset
manufacturer. Once the eWON Talk2M solution is
installed, the genset manufacturer can evaluate
the application, investigate the condition
monitoring data, pass regular reports to the
customer, and analyse the data itself, in order to
consider future improved equipment designs.
For more information on eWON Talk2M, please
visit www.mac-solutions.net or telephone MAC
Solutions on 01527 529774 or
email [email protected]
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