Situational awareness

TTI

TTI (table trançante informatisée) was a project for Marine Nationale to show the tactical situation around a ship from the data received from different communication protocols (GPS, L11, AIS, etc.).

The main goal was to implement a distributed application of an automated tracking table allowing the representation, storage, and replay of the tactical situation in real time.

The system comprises:

• A PC (near or replacing the conventional tracking table) with the TTI software: it is the admin position, the one who is responsible to “draw” the tactical situation and to correct conflicting data;
• A server responsible for collecting all the data and sharing them to all the computers on board.

Through this configuration, all computers connected to the network on board are capable of showing and replaying the tactical situation.

COD do Futuro

The COD do Futuro (Operation Center of the Future) is a research and development project (R&D) of Cemig Distribuição in a partnership with Concert Technologies to implement a system of data treatment for its supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA), aimed to increase the situational awareness of the operators.

The main goals of this project are:

• Development of data bus allowing the exchange of information among different databases;
• An efficient system of alarm management;
• Use of statistical inference to predict certain analogical quantities in the short run, warning the operators about overloadings before they happen.

The participation in this project consists in the treatment of analogical quantities through state estimation, with the development of a drive that publishes the estimated values in the data bus and notifies when gross errors are detected.