Page 34: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (February 2016)

BY HENRIK

SEGERCRANTZ & big savings for Maritime Ops

We are on the brink of an extraordinary revolution that will change our world forever. In this new world everyone everything, and everywhere will be connected in real time. We call this the , Networked Society and it will fundamentally change the way we innovate, collaborate, produce, govern and sustain. The transport industry will bene? t from this evolution – writes the communications technology and services provider Ericsson, which re- cently has entered into strategic coopera- tion with both Inmarsat and Cisco (Image: Laros) he development of integrated worldwide. To date, only a fraction of maximizing the bene? ts of big data for the data analyzed by software compar- fast on-line computer tech- this information is used, but times are the industry with minimum cost and ing it with optimal and displaying the nologies, new satellite link changing. burden, such as the annual monitoring, data both onboard and sending it ashore,

Tcapabilities, and ef? cient In December, ClassNK reported that report and verifying of fuel consumption where increasingly sophisticated sys- cloud storage capabilities of information it had established a Ship Data Center in for vessels 5,000gt or larger which call tems process and present it. All types of have resulted in huge opportunities for Tokyo to support the utilization of data at any EU port, under the Monitoring, ship data is gathered, depending of the utilizing vast amounts of data for opti- gathered from ship operations. Regard- Reporting and Veri? cation (MRV) regu- ship type at least including trim, speed mizing all kinds of operations. In order ing the big amount of ship data today lation by the EU required from 1 January and propulsion machinery and naviga- to use this new technology leap, global being gathered, the company reports, 2018. tional data, up to recording hundreds of communications technology providers ‘However, the approach to data capture The number of companies offering different data sources for sophisticated are entering into strategic cooperation. is still very fragmented with similar data high-level technologies for optimizing cruise ships, which also have completely

There is a growing number of companies being sent to several vendors and analy- ship operations is increasing. A pioneer separate systems looking into the con- specializing in providing consultancy sis still being carried out almost entirely was Finnish Eniram, soon followed by sumer behavior and onboard hotel and and software services aiming at lower- on a ship-by-ship basis. To make larger ABB, with its EMMA, and also, as in restaurant business operations. The tech- ing their clients’ energy bills. Within the gains, an effective platform capable of the example above, by similar technolo- nical data is typically ? rst processed by maritime industry the focus is on opti- centralizing and managing such diverse gies developed by ship classi? cation computers onboard comparing perfor- mizing shipping operations to save costs. data is essential. ClassNK’s Data Cen- societies. Sophisticated technologies de- mance with pre-stored statistical ship

There is already now a huge amount ter though starts small, with trials using veloped by companies like Laros, from data. Some pre-processed data is sent of data potentially available within the one container vessel. The Data Center is Greece, and GreenSteam, from Den- ashore to the shipowners’ of? ce for fur- maritime industry, considering the num- to serve as an information hub to inde- mark, pave way for growing ship data ther analysis. Typically also the system ber of ships carrying vast amounts of pendently manage the utilization of big markets. provider receives the data in order to be goods to and from the numerous ports data in the maritime industry. It aims at Sensors are installed onboard to gather able to process it further for the ship- 34 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • FEBRUARY 2016

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