During the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Limassol Forum, Giampiero Soncini, Managing Director, Oceanly Srl, questioned whether the new breed of maritime software that is coming, is good for the industry and why this software is so special.
A new breed of Maritime software is coming. The question is whether it is good for the industry and why is this software so special.
The new breed is the Ship Remote Monitoring System, which is a complete fleet level solution that monitors individual vessel’s performance from all points of view, from navigation to on board equipment performances, including emission control, hull and propellers monitoring, fuel consumption and bunkering events.
With this system, it’s very easy to connect with all the navigation equipment onboard and all the automation equipment, via a data collecting tool (which is essentially a smart computer).
The way such systems work is that they collect all ship’s data at a very high rate, using the software to basically do all the analytical jobs and then try to find out if there are trends which are going beyond or above the thresholds that we have established.
The items you can control with Ship Remote Monitoring System are the following:
- Emission control (CII, EEDI, ShaPoLi etc)
- Fuel consumption control
- Route recording, planning and optimization (including weather optimization)
- Trim control
- Engine control
- Boilers and Auxiliary apparatuses control
- Condition Based (Predictive) Maintenance
- Hull and Propeller conditions
- Fuel consumption prediction
- Automatic reporting (MRV, Noon reporting, etc)
Everything which is connected to a Navigation or an Automation Plant can now be recorded, memorized, analyzed, and displayed in any form you may need or want.
All you need is a Data Collector and to specialize software to perform your analysis. You can log in and start collecting data from the past with a software. However, the question is whether it is really possible.
It was possible, technically, 30 years ago. But you needed a lot of expensive hardware, and it was very not an easy task. It became more possible also 20 and 10 years ago, becoming cheaper and with less systems, but still mostly separated one from the other.
Today, it’s not only very possible, it is also relatively inexpensive and all into one software system. A Ship Remote Monitoring System, can perform all activities automatically, collecting data every five seconds, averaging them every five minutes, performing all sort of data analysis with the use of Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence, and display the results onboard and ashore.
The fleet control room
Combining the Performance software with a Fleet control room gives a real control of the whole fleet. Essentially you immediately are pinpointed by these systems on where your attention needs to go.
You can set all the alerts and alarms yourself, and you can get the alert on the mobile phone. The main princi0ple is to let the machine do all the tedious jobs of checking, analysing and reporting, while leaving the important matters to the human in charge: I call it management by exception. Now we have the computers doing the routine work for us and we get them to tell us what we need to focus our intention on.
Above article has been edited from Mr. Giampiero Soncini presentation during the 2023 SAFETY4SEA Limassol Forum.
Explore more by watching his video presentation herebelow
The views presented are only those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of SAFETY4SEA and are for information sharing and discussion purposes only.
