A consortium of companies has gathered with the aim of improving ship efficiency and driving safer navigation through a two-year research project called iSea.
The project is to be led by Danelec Marine and will include other participants such as Vessel Performance Solutions ApS (Denmark), i-Marine Technologies and Research Inc. (Turkey) and Deniztekno Danismanlik Bilgi Teknolojileri ve Bilgisayar San. Tic. Std. Sti (Turkey).
The iSea project team’s main goal is to increase fuel efficiency in open waters and enable better near-shore navigation, focussing on the reduction of human error, particularly in challenging waters. The team will do this by delivering a set of low-cost and low-risk telematics Expert Decision Support Systems (EDSS) that will provide real-time data transfer of data from ship to shore to further enhance the performance and navigability of vessels.
The project has been approved for funding by the Eurostars program, which supports international innovation projects by R&D-performing small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Hans Ottosen, CEO of Danelec Marine commented: “A critical element for an Expert Decision Support System for ship navigation is the availability of real-time data from shipboard sensors and systems. As a part of the iSea initiative, Danelec Marine is investigating an alternative type of communication which would give a subscriber access to real-time data within limits set by the system administrator.”
The real-time data solution will leverage Danelec’s VDRConnect technology, which enables remote push-through and pull-through data retrieval from shipboard systems and sensors, according to Ottosen.
The R&D program will commence in January 2017 and will run for two years and will include sea trials of the EDSS solution.
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