E-Cabin: A Software Architecture for Passenger Comfort and Cruise Ship Management

Paolo Barsocchi, Erina Ferro, Davide La Rosa, Atieh Mahroo, Daniele Spoladore
2019 Sensors  
A cruise ship is a concentrate of technologies aimed at providing passengers with the best leisure experience. As tourism in the cruise sector increases, ship owners turned their attention towards novel Internet of things solutions able, from one hand, to provide passengers with personalized and comfortable new services and, from the other hand, to enable energy saving behaviors and a smart management of the vessel equipment. This paper introduces the E-Cabin system, a software architecture
more » ... leverages sensor networks and reasoning techniques and allows a customized cabin indoor comfort. The E-Cabin architecture is scalable and easily extendible; sensor networks can be added or removed, rules can be added to/changed in the reasoner software, and new services can be supported based on the analysis of the collected data, without altering the system architecture. The system also allows the ship manager to monitor each cabin status though a simple and intuitive dashboard, thus providing useful insights enabling a smart scheduling of maintenance activities, energy saving, and security issues detection. This work delves into the E-Cabin's system architecture and provides some usability tests to measure the dashboard's efficacy.
doi:10.3390/s19224978 pmid:31731669 pmcid:PMC6891611 fatcat:oofqtu7375a43d7cqskpu7lbki