Maintenance of Electrical Relay on Ships Electrical Circuit
A relay is an important electromechanical safety device in ship’s electrical circuit and is normally used to open the faulty circuit from the main supply when any kind of electrical…
8 Common Problems Found In Steering Gear System Of Ships
A vessel, under pilotage, departed a port in ballast and was down bound in a restricted waterway. The engine control was set to bridge control and a helmsman was using manual…
Single Phasing in Electrical Motors: Causes, Effects, and Protection Methods
For proper working of any 3 phase induction motor, it must be connected to a 3 phase alternating current (ac) power supply of rated voltage and load. Once these three-phase motors…
10 Ways To Reduce Freshwater Consumption On Ships
Freshwater on board ships is used for a variety of purposes. From domestic uses such as drinking and washing to ship operation purposes such as machinery cooling and cleaning, fresh…
Reverse Osmosis: Modern Alternative for Shipboard Water Production
Every ship is installed with fresh water production unit which produces fresh water from sea water. The efficient water production unit of the ship helps the vessel owner to save…
What is a Software Development Kit (SDK) ?
Software Development Kit (SDK) is basically a set of software development tools that allow developers to create applications, software or frameworks. SDK Meaning SDK stands for “Software Development Kit”, which is…
Mobile Application Platform
What does Mobile Application Platform mean? A mobile application platform is a suite of software tools used for designing, creating and maintaining mobile applications. A subset of this is the mobile enterprise…
Wireless markup language (WML)
The wireless markup language (WML) (WAP Forum, 2000j) is based on the standard HTML known from the www and on HDML (King, 1997). WML is specified as an XML (W3C, 1998a) document…
WTA Architecture
Browsing the web using the WML browser is only one application for a handheld device user. Say a user still wants to make phone calls and access all the features…
Wireless transaction protocol (WTP)
The wireless transaction protocol (WTP) is on top of either WDP or, if security is required, WTLS (WAP Forum, 2000d). WTP has been designed to run on very thin clients,…
