What is the EMDM project about ?

The EMDM project aims to study and develop new applications, functionalities and proposals for specifications and standards for enhanced, interactive VDRs and electronic logbooks, in order to face to the challenge of the intermodal, safe and secure European transport development .

The consortium is composed of 8 partners including the three main European VDR and electronic logbook manufacturers, three SMEs, the JRC and the University of Southampton.

A few words about the workpackages

The EMDM project will lead to a better and more objective analysis of the causes of incidents and accidents in European waters and subsequently to the improvement of maritime safety. This will be done through studies of the needs of the maritime community, discussion of a high level group of stakeholders, including most of the member states and equipment manufacturers, conducing to the deliveries of draft standards on VDRs and Electronic logbook (WP1 and WP2).

Specific studies on potential use of electronic logbooks, assessment of VDRs application for automatic control, development of new concept obtained from exploitation of the registered VDRs data, will be realised in WP3.

Research will focus on the development of low acquisition and exploitation cost VDRs and specific interfaces for retrofitting VDRs on existing ships (WP4). New VDRs functionalities will be developed with interactive links to existing systems such as the electronic logbook, the AIS or other security devices. Structural stress monitoring, coupling of VDRs to the electronic logbooks, the integration of other electronic navigational systems are among the functionalities addressed by the project (WP5).

More information about the workpackages...

Key figures:

Overall budget: 2.795.368 Euro

Duration: 2 years

Start date: March 1st, 2007