2.2 The Key Aspects of Project Reporting

Now, you’ll get some practice analysing a proposal for answers to the six questions.

Instructions: Read the proposal summary for the “Lynceus2Market” project and answer the questions below.

Lynceus2Market

Maritime disasters in recent years are a stark reminder of the imperative need for timely and effective evacuation of large passenger ships during emergencies. The “Lynceus2Market” project addresses this challenge through delivering a revolutionary operational system for safe evacuation based on innovative people localisation technologies.

The system consists of the following: 

  1. Localisable life jackets that can provide passenger location in real time during an emergency.
  2. Smart smoke detectors that also act as base stations of an on-board localisation system.
  3. Innovative localisable bracelets able to send activity data to the emergency management team.
  4. Low-cost fire and flooding escalation monitoring sensor notes.
  5. Novel mustering handheld devices for automatic identification and counting of passengers during evacuation.
  6. Smart localisable cabin key cards.
  7. Intelligent decision support software able to fuse all localisation, activity and disaster escalation data to provide an integrated real-time visualisation, passenger counting and evacuation decision support.
  8. Innovative shore or ship-launched unmanned aerial vehicle for localising people in the sea in a short time and assisting search and rescue operations when accidents occur in extreme weather, during the night, or in a remote location.
  9. Low-cost rescue-boat mounted radars for people localisation in the vicinity of the boat.

The proposed project is based on the promising results developed in the previous “Lynceus” project where the innovative technologies were tested in the lab and in small-scale pilots. “Lynceus2Market” brings together European global players in the field, such as cruise ship owners, operators, ship builders, maritime equipment manufacturers, a classification society, industry associations and important technology organisations with the aim to implement the first market replication of these technologies and products. “Lynceus2Market” will create a significant impact by saving passenger lives during maritime accidents.

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