In order to avoid emission of harmful fumes and noise pollution by generators on board of ships, the Rotterdam dock industry and ENECO Energy started the project Quayside energy. Technolution developed the system where the captain of the ship logs in, contacts the electricity meters in the harbour and arranges payment for the energy supply.
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The use of Quayside energy
Quayside energy can easily be switched on and off. The client of Quayside energy phones the Interactive Voice Response system. The client uses the code of the socket where he is docked to report himself. Within a few seconds, the electricity supply is activated. After the desired electricity supply, the Quayside server is phoned to check out.
During the consumption of energy the Quayside server sends an SMS at regular intervals to remind the captain of the active electricity connection. At the end of the month the consumption is settled. On a personal page of the Quayside website all personal data such as contract, history of consumption; invoices and personal settings can be viewed.
The technologies applied are:
- Services in the Quayside system are hosted within a J2EE container
- Payment is done by means of direct debit and credit card via internet
- Apache and Tomcat for web hosting
- Java Server Pages, AJAX and CCS combined with JavaScript
- Cross browser compatible (Firefox 2.x and IE 5.5 and higher)
- SOAP and WE-* web services
- Opened up database using JDBC and SQL92
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 4For further information, visit our website on quayside nergy.
For more information, please visit the website about Quayside energy.