New “Energy Demand Forecast System for Ships”

By Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) and NEC Corporation will collaborate in the development of an “Energy Demand Forecast System for Ships” applying NEC’s big data analysis technologies to achieve energy savings during ship navigation. Plans call for MHI to begin marketing the system by March 2015. The new system will project future energy demand based on previously collected data relating to ships’ energy consumption, weather patterns, ambient air temperature, time of day, etc. Its forecasting technology will use NEC’s “heterogeneous mixture learning technologies,” which automatically detect massive patterns hidden in big data. Use of the system is designed to enable control of the operating ratios of a ship’s engine and power generators, as well as the number of units to be in operation, based on highly precise energy demand forecasts.
 

(As published in the December 2013 edition of Maritime Reporter & Engineering News - www.marinelink.com)

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 56, Dec 2013

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