MConnected support the Royal Navy
HMS Queen Elizabeth
Get the Ship in Shape: accounting for, and tracking, personnel
MConnected propose to adopt new technologies to replace the existing pegboard to prototype new wearable, intrinsically safe smart cards, based on new chip sets. The wearables will be both readable via NFC & RFID technologies and will also be very visually informative. The chip set will allow significant amounts of information to be stored such as access rights, zones of accessibility and time allotted. The reader(s) will allow high volume reading, and data will be conveyed to a "tuff laptop”. Full schematics of the vessel will visually show where operatives should be working, including muster zones.
Defence and Security compatibility.
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Strategic fit
The business needs personnel accounting of a significant number of visiting, contracting and permanent personnel within the ship. This is a daunting challenge, as the current system is cumbersome, prone to human error and archaic.
The command centre must have up to date information on who is on the vessel and who is located in which section of the ship.
The proposed prototype will have several hardware and software development phases.
Smart Identification Technologies
The prototype cards utilise up to date technologies based on new, passive printed electronics. The prototypes would be designed by the businesses framework agreement at the Centre for Process Engineering (CPI) and MConnected‘s microchip partner, NXP. The Technology will use the newest “DNA” microchip, which is capable of being completely programmed to add layers of detail of the wearer, including security.
The aim would not only be to fully automate the vessels manifest but digitally and visually profile the wearer. The prototype “Digital Dog Tag” would incorporate passive hybrid Near Field Communication (“NFC”) technologies as well as Radio Frequency Identification (‘RFI”) technologies. The hybrid solution would allow for a greater “read” range to cater for situations such as a muster scenario, and help future proof the development.
The proposed development is based around a new smart digital dog tag, capable of being a wearable passive device situated on the person which would not detract from the individuals duties in work in case of action or emergency. The pass will be highly visual and colour coded, including lanyards to represent the class of the wearer.
