The new onboard system allows ocean-going ships to share sea state data in real time, giving crews early warnings and helping them navigate more safely. The system will analyze the data associated with navigationship behavior and environment to provide guidance to ship crews at sea.
Bye victims the number of ship collisions and groundings has decreased, the total number of maritime incidents is increasing, has grown by 22 percent in recent yearscaused by aging ships and equipment failures.
Orca AI, The London-based autonomous shipping company has unveiled a software feature called Co-Captainin an effort to reduce the number of such incidents. Co-Captain is an addition to the existing one in the company Cpod a real-time decision support system that bridge officers can use while at sea for better navigation.
The co-captain provides information on severe weather conditions, including recommendations for specific ships based on their size and shape.Orca AI
“Co-Captain is a network of ships that use Orca to record events around the world and share information. Think of it like the navigation app you use in your car: it tells you ahead of time about traffic jams or roadblocks so you can adjust your route,” says Yarden Gross, CEO and co-founder of Orca AI.
Gross says co-captains often collect data from sensors on board ships and send it to the cloud to improve the performance and safety of ships around the world.
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Founded in 2018 by Gross and Dor Raviv, CTO, OrcaAI started with SeaPod and Fleet overview. While SeaPod collects and analyzes data on individual vessels, Fleet View aggregates that data in the cloud to give fleet managers onshore greater visibility into larger operations.
Co-Captain integrates with your existing system to provide proactive information to improve fleet performance and safety. Today, ship officers rely on tools such as radar, automatic identification system (AIS) and Electronic mapping and information system (ECDIS) monitor the position of other vessels and avoid collisions, but most work remains management.
The co-captain identifies various navigational hazards for the ship's crew. The crew can also manually flag obstacles or other problems.Orca AI
Gross described Co-Captain as the next generation of AIS, a network that transmits basic information such as a ship's position, name and heading over very high frequency (VHF) signals in the 30 to 300 megahertz range. Unlike AIS, which only monitors the ship's position, the co-captain also monitors conditions on board. For example, if a ship reports a list of 3 degrees and a roll of 5 degrees in rough seas, the co-captain uses this data to predict how current conditions will affect nearby ships, adjusted for their size and design. The co-captain then sends individual recommendations to the crews of these vessels.
“Each vessel acts as a node in a larger network, and each node—the vessel itself—has an onboard artificial intelligence platform. This platform collects data from multiple sensors in real time,” Gross says. Using cameras And computer visionThe AI model can detect bad weather, poor visibility, high waves or strong winds, and the platform then analyzes the data to provide personalized recommendations.
All data is anonymized. Gross says the ship's movement, timing or route can provide valuable information. “By anonymizing data, the co-captain can share important safety alerts such as GPS interference, severe weather or heavy traffic, without revealing which vessel reported it or where it came from.”
Gross says Orca AI is working to integrate Co-Captain with other bridge systems such as Navigation telex (NAVTEX) and ECDIS so that relevant alerts and updates are centralized.
The company's long-term goal is to provide real-time notifications about the most important events along a vessel's route, providing captains with information on which they can quickly act to ensure safer and more efficient operations. The platform is already used on more than 1,200 vessels.
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