Floating bollards safely operating in the waterway infrastructure intelligent operation and maintenance system are a key element without which it would not be possible to supply the entire system.
To make their status control and risk prediction accurate, the intelligent monitoring and safety early warning system for floating bollards in ship locks has been created.
The system through scientific technical architecture, hierarchical early warning mechanism, and efficient terminal management moves the tradition of passive management and control to active scientific management. It significantly contributes to the intelligent operation and maintenance of ship locks and has a wide application potential in reality.
At the core of the system, which is focused on real-time monitoring and safety early warning, the intelligent monitoring system for floating bollards in ship locks has been implemented as a full technical chain consisting of strain monitoring devices, management servers, and display terminals.
Strain monitoring devices grab the real-time strain data of the bollards, which show the mooring force and structural stress condition.
Four G network data upload to the server is carried out in a stable manner.
The display terminal visualizes the data to support the decision-making of the operation and maintenance.
Safety Early Warning Mechanism: Hierarchical Early Warning for Accurate Risk Management and Control
The system fixed three-level early warning mechanism by checking the actual mooring force against the predetermined threshold:
Level I (Red): Danger extremely that demands rescue intervention.
Level II (Blue): Average risk requiring intensified monitoring.
Level III (Green): Security status.
The early warning message is characterized by basic features such as level, time, and place, and it also specifies warning items and disposal methods. This, on the one hand, speeds up the risk response and, on the other hand, drops down the accident occurrence probability.
III. Terminal Management System: Dual Modules Ensuring Efficient Data and User Management
The terminal management system as the core of human-computer interaction is made up of two main parts: monitoring data management and user management.
Data Management Module: It is the recipient of the bollards' real-time mooring force data and related safety early warning information. After being integrated by the data center, it reveals in a very clear and visual way the loading of the device, its running state, and the details of the early warning, thus providing a very easy and fast way of analysis and judging.
User Management Module: It is committed to securing data access via hierarchical permission control and thus eliminating the risk of wrong operations.
IV. Practical Application Value: The Leap from Passive Control to Active Management
The system is performing a real-world monitoring function in a big ship lock located in the upper-middle Yangtze River area. It monitors the strain data of the floating bollard structure during the entire ship lockage process and, at the same time, it obtains the actual mooring force and mooring angle data of the cables when ships pass through the lock.
Tests of application demonstrate that the system has effectively transformed the operation and management mode of floating bollards in ship locks. It has been shifted from the traditional passive control that depended on cable load measurement to an active scientific management based on online monitoring and quantitative evaluation of safety early warnings.
From the application effects point of view, the system achieves "perceptibility" of the floating bollards in normal status and "early warning capability" in extreme status:
It can strongly perform the safety status evaluation of the ships that are passing through the lock and achieve the aim of real-time monitoring and early warning.
The system allows the navigation hub management units to have full control over the monitoring of ships passing through the lock.
The scope of its application encompasses nearly all the navigable ship lock projects, which are already in place in China. It is a technologically feasible solution to be replicated and promoted for the intelligent operation and maintenance waterway infrastructure with extremely broad application prospects.
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