Toward Digital Twins Based Marine SCADA System

As a software representation of assets and processes, digital twins is valuable for the design of future marine monitoring and control systems. Such a system usually requires the integration of technologies from cloud and edge, WebAccess/SCADA and SaaS Composer from Advantech Technology were adopted in our proposed framework for ships running in coastal waters and a digital twins based marine monitoring application was given in the paper. The framework is compatible with various network access technologies, including near shore oriented cellular communication and off shore oriented satellite communication. The focus of this paper is on how to realize the virtual modeling and innovated application with marine monitoring data and its universality can derive to more promising applications.