Reliable operation of a warship fleet requires constant monitoring of millions of data points that control machinery health in a modern fleet. All ships have many systems requiring monitoring, in addition to the main propulsion and ship safety systems. The U.S. Navy has selected Vista Control Systems’ Vsystem machine control environment for machinery monitoring of its surface fleet, including the new DDG-100 Zumwalt-class destroyer currently under development.
Vsystem-based installations are being implemented to improve the fidelity of the current monitoring system and allow shore-based engineers to monitor raw data and refined machinery status data. The new Vsystem-based software modules will be rolled out in the fleet once development by the Navy is complete.
“The Navy was looking for reliable software to base their application on that would support Linux as well as high data rates, and Vsystem met the requirements,” said Peter Clout, president of Vista Control Systems. “Any ship in operation generates an enormous amount of data. Vsystem can easily handle the demands of modern technological warfare. In addition, Vsystem licenses are all unlimited tag licenses, making the system much more user friendly.”
Headquartered in Los Alamos, NM, Vista Control Systems provides multiplatform, high-performance SCADA, historian, and process control software tools for commercial and government applications, focusing on the process control, machinery monitoring, research, and test-stand application areas, where stable, high-performance SCADA systems are required.