Salem S3PT - Salem Automation's Unique Personnel Tracking System

With its substantial experience designing and engineering plant-wide, computer based safety and control systems for industry and the world’s major oil and gas producers, Salem Automation has designed and developed a unique, flexible personnel tracking and administration system for the offshore environment – Salem S3PT .  The powerful, user-configurable system, which operates across any configuration of platforms to precisely determine identities and numbers of personnel within different platform areas, also interfaces with shore-based heliports and platform administration systems to confirm personnel / freight manifests aboard scheduled helicopter flights to and from platforms.

Features

• A unique system for tracking personnel in hazardous environments.

• A non-contact, hands free system using an unlimited number of passive transponder identification tags in conjunction with antennae and readers; it is a radio frequency identification package (RFID) certified for use in hazardous areas.

• The powerful, user-configurable suite of programs, which operates across any configuration of platforms, support vessels, drilling rigs etc, precisely determines identities and numbers of personnel within different platform areas. Salem S3PT  also links with shore based heliports and platform administration systems to confirm personnel/freight manifests aboard scheduled helicopter flights to and from platforms etc.

• Primarily a safety related system, Salem S3PT assists the management of personnel in the event of an incident.       Salem S3PT  maintains a real-time , comprehensive personnel-on-board listing capable of determining the location of individual personnel and their arrival at muster stations.

• To comply with statutory requirements, the system interfaces to separately based onshore, stand by computer facilities to provide a mirror image of details on the offshore locations.

• Salem S3PT  can operate on single or networked computers and uses proven server hardware and user-configurable windows-environment software developed by Salem’s software engineers.

 

PTS-Web Server Architecture

 

The major software components of the PTS Web server are:

 

• Microsoft Windows 2000 professional Operating System.

• Oracle 9i Database.

• Oracle 9i Application Server, including OC4J Web Server.

 

The PTS-software has been written with Oracle Jdeveloper 9i R3 and utilises Java technology. Primarily Java Servlets are used because of their flexibility and power. Servlets allow complex functions, calculations and database calls to be performed on the web server transparent to the user who only sees the generated web pages. Java Applets are utilised where data is constantly updating and is complex and graphically demanding, for example on overview maps.

Client side JavaScript is used to validate and control data entry, printing and other similar functionality as it doesn’t require page refreshes and is therefore fast and can easily relate to the browser as well as the HTML code.

 

PTS Clients

 

PTS-Clients can be based on any Microsoft Windows operating system that can support IE5.5 or higher. Clients require the Java plug-in (International version 1.4.1_01) due to applets being used (Java 2 support is not included in current versions of IE). This plug-in is freely available from Sun Microsystems and will enhance Browsers to support the latest Java version. The plug-in also makes debugging of all Java errors simpler and improves the quality of support that is offered.

 

For more information please contact David Rowe at Salem Automation or email david.rowe@salemautomation.net