Smart Sail

帆船的所有者，无论是拥有一艘船的个人，船队所有者，赛车手还是那些维护船只的人，都面临着帆管理的两个关键问题，即状态监控以及在存储时发现和识别帆。帆的价值可以高达10万英镑，至关重要的是，为帆船游艇的行程选择具有足够使用寿命的正确帆，无论是比赛还是巡航。游艇可以有许多不同的帆，这些帆经常在存储和游艇之间移动，他们的库存总是用手写的清单管理，或者最好用手动更新的电子表格管理。此外，很少记录航行使用情况的数据，这些数据将保存在船上的书面日志中，而不是保存在可查阅的中央数据库中。由于紫外线照射和“鞭打”（在抢风或旋转时发生的破坏性船帆拍打，或者如果它们设置不正确）而导致的船帆退化从未被记录下来，也没有已知的监测方法。Smart Sail Systems开发并测试了一种固定在帆上的创新传感器，该传感器记录帆的“护照”，并监控和存储帆的使用和磨损情况，使用户能够首次准确记录和查看帆的使用情况。我们建议将这项技术商业化，并开发一个经过全面测试、验证和校准的原型，以投放市场

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