(Data transmission, Remote Video based Inspection, Maintenance and Crew healthcare support.)

The maritime industry is undergoing and adopting lots of changes these years. Shipping operations are heavily relying on software-driven automation and control systems as a result of the digital revolution. This innovation is being complemented by multifaceted incorporations of calculation, networking, and physical procedures, that need 24*7 tracking and monitoring of fleet. This generates gigabits of data from vessels machinery like ME, AE, Scrubbers, Boilers, Pumps etc that needs to be transmitted from vessel to shore office seamlessly and in a secured manner which can be made possible with a secured transmission. 

 Sensing the changes the industry is adopting many ship owners, ship managers, and fleet operators are looking at solutions that can be used to transform their day-to-day operations. Solutions like Remote monitoring and tracking often come with a need to have seamless connectivity, continuous data transmission from vessels to shore. Post pandemic break, the industry has taken up remote inspection and maintenance as a practice due to travel restrictions imposed. Video-Based inspection and maintenance need a high speed & stable bandwidth which was observed during POC or pilot done by many ship owners and operators.  

Ship 4.0 , the use of IoT Solutions in the maritime industry is driving the force to have dedicated bandwidth only for the vessel and separate connectivity for crew welfare. Many owners are now focused on having a dedicated bandwidth for their vessels, which can only be used for the vessel. 

Dedicated Bandwidth – Its Uses and Benefits

Dedicated bandwidth is reserved solely for the use of transmitting the live status of the machinery and creating situational awareness for the offshore team with remote Video-based services This ensures that the day to day operations always gets the high data connectivity throughout the voyage, regardless of the other uses of the connection for communication, crew entertainment, researching, internet browsing for extracting tech info, weather updates can be managed on a separate connection so no drop in data can be observed during high usage of the connection.

What is Dedicated Bandwidth Used For?

Dedicated bandwidth can be used for having multiple purposes. Ideally, it can be used for data transmission from ships like having machine data and navigational updates continuously. Knowing the real-time status of the vessel like fuel consumption, emission status, wear and tear of the machines and spares etc. 

Situational Awareness – Live data incoming machine, navigation, Fuel consumption data to the shore, provides Situational Awareness to the vessel Superintendents & Fleet Managers. Live tracking from shore can assist in considerable cost control, people management and getting vessel health, performance across all voyages. 

Remote troubleshooting – Physical visits to vessels for Inspection, Survey, Audit at times comes at a huge cost for the vessel owners and managers. Smart Ship Hub eases this by providing a Mobile Application, enabling Remote Troubleshooting. This service is also used for crew healthcare or any emergencies.

Improved Reliability – Machinery Health Data coming from the vessel 24×7, instead of a noon report, makes the information more reliable for the Vessel Performance Monitoring. Even in case of minor disconnects during the voyage, the data remains safe on the vessel and is pushed to the cloud immediately on resuming connectivity.

Why Get Dedicated Bandwidth?

In addition to operational, communicational benefits VSAT offers; vessels also need dedicated connectivity for IoT, which is gaining importance after the pandemic breakout. A dedicated IoT connection separates communicational, leisure and other day-to-day activities from, machine data and video-based services which helps crew and shore team to have quick solutions to the problems, helping in achieving low operational costs. The dedicated bandwidth offers a cyber-secure connection to all the critical data that is being collected and transmitted from the vessel to another part of the world. IoT connectivity enables the transfer of real-time data from ship to shore with high-speed connectivity. 

Smart Ship© Hub has partnered with KVH Watch to provide seamless and dedicated 24×7 data to the ship owners, operators and managers.