Shipping Wakes up to the New Digital Age
The analysis and collection of big data are becoming the ‘oil of 21st century’ for the maritime industry. This accentuates the widening spread of data flows from all ships to shore, brought about by the new era of shipping digitisation. The Internet of Things is anticipated to change the way shipping companies operate, provided if data can be accurately processed.
- Formerly deliberated as a very low-data industry, the maritime sector is gradually rising up to the new digital age.
- Monitoring by remote access, condition-based maintenance, data analytics and foretelling are considerably improving and optimising numerous functions in operations and ship management.
- The international shipping industry has started grabbing the tangible opportunities that the growth of big data presents.
However, more of shipping companies are coming forward to share information with a view to acquire the benefits of big data, the approach to data capture remains very uneven. Such of theses similar data is regularly directed to several vendors and analysis of the same are being carried out almost entirely on a ship-by-ship basis, in processes which are to consume time and proves to be inefficient.
ClassNK has taken a leading role in the implementation of cyber security standards for maritime data analysis. It has teamed up with the United States Maritime Resource Center (USMRC) to better understand current and evolving cyber security challenges posed by big data across the marine transportation system. The Japanese classification society’s enduring assurance to help shipping grasp the potential of big data and took a major step ahead freshly.
ClassNK is backing up the maritime community in Big Data:
- Provides necessary base to gain the benefits of big data, as well protecting data security simultaneously.
- Formed the Ship Data Center as a distinct individual with a secure shipping operations database serving as an autonomous information centre to manage the use of big data in the maritime industry.
- Planned maintenance and automatic diagnosis system CMAXS and will be viewable only to individuals qualified by Ship Data Center, according to agreed permissions.
- Irrespective of class or company, data will be collected from various vessels, by the way of data collection devices on board.
- ClassNK’s Companies are at full liberty to choose anything they want to share and to specify if they need to share it with engine makers, equipment manufacturers, shipyards or other stakeholders who might benefit.
“As a platform for big data analysis, the opportunities of the Ship Data Center are endless: from automatic vessel performance monitoring to voyage and fuel consumption data analysis. The Ship Data Center could also be used to generate reports and help engine makers arrange replacement parts or use data to improve designs”, says Takashi Nagatome, representative director of ClassNK’s Tokyo-based Ship Data Center.
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Source: Marine Electronics & Communications
