Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) announced that it developed Integrated Smart Ship Solution (ISSS), its proprietary ICT technology capable of realizing economical and reliable navigation and management of ships. ISSS is the first of its kind in the global industry.
The solution standardizes ways of navigation varying depending on levels of skills and experiences of navigators, collects and analyzes real-time information on navigations, and thus is expected to play a role in enhancing efficiency and safety of ships. The solution is expected to cut annual operating cost by 6%.
The company suggests that the demand for smart ships is expected to grow further, ahead of IMO’s decision to introduce e-Navigation, a strategy to bring about increased safety of navigation in commercial shipping through better organization of data on ships by 2019.
Smart ship technology is a system that helps ships’ efficient operation by using ICT and big data. HHI developed the smart ship technology in 2011 for the first time and has applied the system to about 300 ships it delivered so far. Moreover, in May this year HHI signed a memorandum of understanding on establishing a partnership in the smart ship sector with the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (Bahri).
Lloyd’s Register’s Luis Benito, Innovation, Strategy and Research Director, Marine and Offshore said, “HHI’s technology seeks to align with delivering the key benefits we believe the maritime industry will most benefit from through the adoption of connected, digital and autonomous technologies as the next generation of shipping embraces digitalization.”
ISSS is developed on the back of INTEGRICT intelligence energy management system. ISSS provides ship information to operators such as optimal navigation routes and navigation speed along with a slope status of the front and back hull of a ship, that minimize resistances a ship takes on voyage. The solution allows safer and more efficient management of ships by collecting and analyzing energy data and monitoring status of engines and propellers.
The ICT solution already completed field tests as well by being mounted on a 6,500 PCTC and a 250,000 DWT VLOC.
