Cyber secured Digital Tower: Command center for your fleet

Commercial maritime shipping organizations steer new obstacles and are generating more data than before. The need for data standardization and having a dedicated cyber secured bandwidth is rising within the ecosystem. Witnessing the evolution in the operations and ship 4.0 on the roll, owners and operators are having long-term and short-term objectives they plan to achieve with digitalization. But, one aspect that remains common is data standardization and cyber security.

The maritime industry and stakeholders are slowly accepting the modern approach to data collection, integration, standardization, and analytics. They can open the door to efficiencies within their day-to-day operations.

As a leading maritime technology company working in live fleet monitoring and performance. SSH is cyber secured and works on low bandwidth to connect vessels with the shore team. The standardization of vessel monitoring and control systems is crucial for stakeholders, as to monitor the fleet from with standard data available to evaluate, monitor the vessels with the live status of the performance. Stakeholders can also demand analytics available from secured and safe data transmission bandwidth.

The long-standing partnership with KVH allows SSH to make it possible for the maritime ecosystem to have a cyber-secure dedicated bandwidth.

SSH infrastructure deploys an advanced Remote vessel management platform capable of Remote Monitoring of vessels by Charters, Insurers, Superintendents & Managers. SSH creates an unparalleled experience in creating their own digital towers for the owners. Having a digital tower in asset management is helping the shore team to have a centralized repository in managing the assets.

Here is what you should check for before planning your command center.

 

1. Budget: With an objective to reduce the cost, the digital tower should not be a cost heavy on the organization. One should opt for technology that will last for next 5-7 years minimum and 9-12 years with few upgradation on few lines as required. It is also important to consider the maintenance or annual subscription cost.

2. Process and Standardization: Data management efforts depend on the facility to gather and preserve data that are clean, standardized, structured. With modern Iot sensors its very important to choose and select the right data sourcing points which will help to have standard data across the asset. SSH makes it easy for the stakeholders (internal and external) to read data, which is required for their restricted access. Standardization is a key element to check for.

3. AI and ML: Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning being the backbone for the tech, it is important to know, how agile, dynamic this technology can be leveraged at. With the data coming in live from the vessel and being processed it is quite important to know the functionality of this tech.

Taking into consideration the above points one to consider before investing in digital tower. But why should one invest in a digital tower?

1. Remote Asset Monitoring: Fleet Performance & Voyage management remotely from shore was something impossible few years back. With innovation and technological advancements, now it is possible and helping many organizations. A dedicated cloud based multitenant platform is now available with capabilities to monitor live status, alarms, alerts and provide advisory. On demand analytics based on historical and live data add further to the benefits to vessel Owner & managers.

2. Reduce operational cost: Managing day-to-day operations is an expensive activity for every owner and operator. The digital tower comes with various solutions and features helping them to reduce operational costs. It is crucial to monitor the expense of fuel, spares, maintenance practice and vetting which can take a major portion. A digital platform capable of giving advisory and alerts based on historical data and integration of different trial reports and having them backed by live data can help organizations to reduce operational costs notably.

3. Increase asset performance: Monitoring engine performance and finding anomalies in any kind of performance can be noticed and addressed immediately. It will also help in planning and voyages of different assets considering the data coming from other vessels and using to chart the KPI for other vessels on the same route.

4. Situational awareness: Modern technology provides complete awareness and knowledge of the actual & lie vessel performance. The alarms, alerts, advisory and analytics give out trends based on the live & historical data from the vessels.  Owners/ Charters can have select analytics based on the requirement at the office like fuel consumption, Noon Vs Actual, fuel speed comparison to name a few. Lots of options and combinations make it interesting for the user’s benefit.

Managing the entire fleet from Digital towers eventually becomes an asset for the organization. We at Smart Ship© Hub™ can make it happen for you too!