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FPSO client: in 2015, ABB was entrusted with automating the

Bumi Armada ? oating producer (pictured), and that makes it a candidate for remote diagnostics help through Ability.

Illustration: handout ship’s engines taking in air or water or marine batteries must also be monitored, Siemens and ABB are very aware of the like ? re, then poisonous, explosive gases showing electrical faults. “We can moni- as evidenced by their battery-cabinet myriad reasons monitoring batteries will could form. Battery ? res themselves are tor it in real-time or close to real-time, so smart screens and the claims of those be necessary. caused by so-called thermal runaway, a if there are thresholds exceeded, then our who battery cabinets. “We would know “We see the same things as the crew chemistry problem the battery module customers can immediately know if, for if anything’s wrong (with a ship’s lith- onboard, so we work together with them is engineered to solve. Still, while some example, there’s water in oil or leakage.” ium-ion batteries) long before the cap- to trouble-shoot the case,” says Braastad battery solutions providers say their tain would,” a battery solution provider after pulling a vessel’s particulars up on method “eliminates thermal runaway”,

Battery Babysitting recently told us. His batteries were all the screen. Presumably, he’ll one day others say theirs reduces the risk of

The few modern versions of diesel- “Internet of things,” meaning remotely also be talking about hybrid drives with “thermal runaway”. It’s a tough call, but electric hybrid drives that are ? tted with monitored, and system integrators like batteries. If problems with these arise, again, remote monitoring would seem to

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