Video and Image Analytics for Remote Vessel Maintenance, Surveys & Inspection

Increased level of automation in Shipping Industry also demands process automation especially in areas of Spares & Parts Health & Condition with little human intervention. Machine learning algorithms have already surpassed human level accuracy w.r.t equipment condition & health updates. To stay competitive, ship owners and operators are taking on process automation with primary aim of cutting costs , increasing visibility & enhancing efficiencies at every level.

Smart Ship© Hub does Image analysis using industrial cameras, UHF cameras or any simple phone cameras together with grayscale machine-vision algorithms. The algorithms clearly identifies wear-n-tear and sends alerts before a mishap or major downtime. This can include use cases to identify Leakages | Rust | Abrasion | Change in Dimension | Proximity Change | Discoloration etc. across range of machinery including : Boiler, Purifier, ME, AE, Bilge, Steering gear, Main Bearing, Smoke color etc. Live machinery data together with equipment Image gets analyzed by the algorithm to give actionable intelligence to be used for :

•          Remote Maintenance
•          Remote Survey & Inspection
•          PMS schedule & action
•          Procurement Planning

Optical recognition works with vast quantities of images fed by onboard camera or a flexible Go- Pro wearable camera used by any appointed crew member . This is helping Owners, Operators, Survey agencies , Insurers , Ship Supply companies to carry out value added services including “ Remote Survey & Inspections”, “ Attending Remote Vessel Maintenance Schedule”, “ Scope out Planned Maintenance” with higher accuracy and “ On demand Procurement of Spares/ Parts” through Predictive Diagnostics & Performance Advisory.

Remote Visual based Vessel Inspection

Scheduled Surveys and Inspections for assessing vessel health & Sea worthiness is critical to safe & green shipping. The legacy processes so far made is slower, non scalable and expensive proposition. Thanks to Smart Ship© Hub Platform, Remote Survey & Inspection has potentially cut survey costs by upto 50% and over a period of 3 years ( or less) can completely recover the automation costs which can continue for rest of the vessel’s life helping it in Remote Survey & Inspection. It is also effectively addressing issues such as:  * Inability of classification societies to take up vessel attendance in recent times

* Inability to attend critical maintenance schedule by service engineers
* Shortage of workforce & implementation of social distancing measures in shipyards

Smart Ship© Hub’s Digital Platform with the Power of Remote Video is strengthening the overall Remote Vessel management offering through near realtime interactions & responses. Amongst various critical process such as machinery reliability & uptime, effective navigation, route optimization & weather based planning. Smart Ship Hub brings in AI-driven video content analytics, which identifies, classifies and indexes objects in surveillance video footage to make it searchable, actionable and quantifiable. Helpful in multiple use case such as :

•          Machinery maintenance schedule
•          Machinery condition such as vibration, noise, displacement
•          Crew welfare
•          Safety & Security drill
•          Critical procedures during Cargo Discharge
•          Mooring process
•          Surveys & Inspections

Automated optical inspection (AOI) solutions based on advanced image analysis are finding their way into Shipping surveys and Inspections where exhaustive visual quality inspections are required. With the integration of deep learning technology the accuracy of image analysis algorithms has increased multifold and are replacing inspection processed that earlier had to be performed by human inspectors and surveyors.  With AOI solutions the surveys and inspections can happen remotely, operated completely autonomously, becoming exponentially faster, more reliable, and more consistently accurate.