The Wärtsilä SceneScan offers precise positional info for more secure procedures. (Image copyright Topaz)
Wärtsilä has actually efficiently finished sea tests of its SceneScan system on the Topaz Citadel, a 72 m system supply vessel had by Dubai, UAE, headquartered Topaz Energy as well as Marine.
Developed by Wärtsilä firm Guidance Marine, the SceneScan modern technology needs no reflector target to be released, enhancing both safety and security as well as functional uptime.
The SceneScan system is a high precision revolving laser sensing unit that offers positional info to permit computerized method and/or terminal maintaining about a framework or vessel. It is made to be uncomplicated to run, as well as it offers tracking info about all-natural or synthetic frameworks within the sensing unit field of vision. It tracks by matching its existing monitoring of the scene versus a map produced from previous monitorings of the scene.
In the examinations onboard the Topaz Citadel, the SceneScan was attached to a Wärtsilä DP system, with which the vessel was currently fitted.
Following the effective 90-day examinations, Topaz suggested that it will certainly maintain the system as mounted on the Topaz Citadel, which it will certainly start a phased roll-out to extra vessels. The first order consists of updating existing DP sensing unit systems onboard 4 of the firm’s vessels. Wärtsilä will certainly likewise supply installment as well as appointing of the systems.
“The testing and evaluation was carried out and proven under actual DP operations with offshore platforms in the Caspian Sea,” claims Andrew Stead, Head of Business Development,Guidance Marine “The positive feedback provides further evidence of the efficiency and accuracy of the SceneScan system.”
“The installation onboard the Topaz Citadel was seamless, and the technical support that was provided by Wärtsilä throughout the testing period successfully determined the system’s overall effectiveness,” claims Paul Jarkiewicz, Operations Director at Topaz Energy as well asMarine “We have no doubt that the SceneScan system will add considerable value to the DP operations of our versatile and digitized fleet.”
