The Design And Reserch Of Intelligent Ship Lock System

As an integral part of the inland waterway system, ship lock plays an important role inregulating the water level, assisting in the successful navigation. Moreover, the flow of theship lockage and fee collection processes and procedures are also directly affects theoperational efficiency of the entire inland waterway system. Currently, there are manyproblems on lock conditions, such as: inconvenience in ship lockage, trivial formalities in lockoperation scheduling process and inefficient and simple in lock management.To solve the problems above, this paper aims at improving ship locking efficiency andincreasing the service level. An intelligent ship lockage system is designed to realize intelligentship report, lockage, dispatching, roundtripping and payment. Here are the main contents ofthis research:1. The measurement module of the ship draft is designed. The depth of the ship draft ismeasured by input level transmitter and underwater acoustic transducer, which can calculatethe ship’s carrying capacity. Eventually, it is the realization of intelligent charging based oncarrying capacity.2. Active RFID technology is applied to the whole process of ship lock, thus Active RFIDtags on ships and terminal sensing devices are designed. They are used for intelligent sensing,to achieve the landing lockage without ship owners.3. ZigBee communication module and GPRS data uploading module are designed.Combined both ZigBee and GPRS, it s to upload electronic identity and information aboutactive RFID tags and the ship draft.4. Optimal scheduling model for multi-line ship lock lockage has been proposed. It carrysforward the advantage of existing scheduling model, using the scheduling model for intelligentscheduling and dispatching. It implements the ship lock s maximum and comprehensiveutilization of each wire.5. Server sites of Smart ship lockage system and PC interface are done. They can realizeinformation exchange among the ship, lock management center and the ship owner.