Ship Hull Monitoring

Smartec SA, a has provided, in conjunction with the Italian Company Pegaso Systems S.r.l., a
structural monitoring system, solely based on fiber optic technology, for the tanker ship “Four Island”. The system has been installed during the recent refurbishment works of the ship in Vinashin shipyard (Vietnam).

The “Four Island” ship is an oil tanker (approx. 100’000 tons of gross tonnage) which is now equipped with a ship hull structural monitoring system consisting of 48 fiber optic SMARTprofile MuST sensors expressly developed by Smartec and Pegaso Systems S.r.l. for this new application. In fact, this is the first fiber optic monitoring system in the world, totally designed and integrated in an operating ship of this size.
Over the years, Smartec has instrumented many civil and industrial structures, but this is the first time that we have provided a monitoring system expressly developed and dedicated to a naval application. Our systems will contribute to real-time diagnosis of the ship structural
behaviour, with particular reference to critical points and sections of the ship frame. We expect this technology to be used on many other aging and new ships around the world.

Here is the full Press Release.