Smart Sail

帆船所有人，无论是只有一艘船的个人、船队所有人、参赛者或维护船只的人，都面临着帆船管理的两个关键问题，即状况监测以及发现和识别储存时的帆船。帆船的价值可达100K GB，无论是比赛还是巡航，为帆船行程选择具有足够使用寿命的正确帆船是至关重要的。游艇可以有许多不同的帆，这些帆经常在仓库和游艇之间移动，它们的库存总是通过手写的清单管理，或者充其量使用手动更新的电子表格管理。此外，帆船使用情况的数据即使有记录也很少，这些数据将保存在船上的书面日志中，而不是保存在中央可访问的数据库中。由于紫外线照射和“鞭打”(在尾航或回转时发生的损坏的船帆拍打，或者如果它们被错误地设置)导致的船帆退化的经历从未被记录下来，也没有已知的方法来监测这一点。Smart Sail Systems开发并测试了一种固定在风帆上的创新的新型传感器，该传感器可以记录风帆的“护照”，并监控和存储风帆的使用和佩戴，使用户能够第一次准确地记录和审查风帆的使用情况。我们计划将这项技术商业化，并开发一种经过充分测试、验证和校准的原型，以便在市场上推出。

The owners of sailing boats, whether individuals with one boat, fleet owners, racers or those who maintain boats, face two key problems with sail management namely condition monitoring and finding and identifying sails when in storage. Sails can range in value up to £100k and it is critical that the correct sails with sufficient service life are selected for the sailing yachts itinerary be it racing or cruising. Yachts can have many different sails which are frequently moved between storage and yacht and their inventory is invariably managed with hand written lists or at best with spreadsheets that are manually updated. Furthermore, data of sail usage is rarely if ever recorded and such data would be kept in an on-board written log and not held in a central accessible database. The degradation sails experience due to UV exposure and “flogging” (the damaging flapping of sails that occurs whilst tacking or gybing or if they’re incorrectly set) is never recorded and there is no known method of monitoring this. Smart Sail Systems has developed and tested an innovative new sensor fixed to the sail that records the sail “passport” and monitors and stores sail use and wear enabling users to accurately record and review the usage of sails for the first time. We propose to commercialise this technology and to develop a fully tested, validated and calibrated prototype for launch in the market