NMEA2000 Ship Area Network (SAN) design and Test Bed using Power Line Communication (PLC) with the 3-Phase 3-Line Delta Connection Method

Abstract

In this paper, the Integrated Ship Area Network which is suitable for the old or special ships built prior to the implementation of e-Navigation regulation by designing the PLC-based NMEA2000 integrated Network technology using the Ship-PLC. Since the Ship-PLC communication basically provides the Ethernet communication which has been used to support RS232/ 422/485 communications, technological implementation of various convergent multimedia communication was possible. With the test bed results using proposed technology in an actual ship, we've provided the possibility of shipbuilding cost reduction following plant structure changes and their numbers through integration of ship's power lines and circuits.