Patent ID: 8996210
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
1. A vessel monitoring system for monitoring systems on a vessel and for communicating system condition information from the vessel to a remote site, the vessel monitoring system comprising: sensors onboard the vessel, each sensor for monitoring one or more vessel systems and for providing system condition information in response thereto; a main processor for providing a first control signal to one or more vessel systems responsive to the system condition information, the main processor further responsive to a second control signal sent from the remote site, the first and second control signals for controlling the vessel systems; a first communications component aboard the vessel for communicating the system condition information to the remote site; wherein one of the vessel systems comprises a navigation system for creating a virtual geofence surrounding a present position of the vessel, and wherein the system condition information comprises an alarm when the vessel crosses the virtual geofence.