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Agriculture Data 
B2B Data 
Biometric Data 
Company Data 
Conservation Data 
Demographic Data 
Economic Data 
Environmental Data 
Geospatial Data 
Healthcare Data 
Individual Data 
Industry-Specific Data 
Internet of Things (IoT) Data 
Legal and IP Data 
People and Employment Data 
Political Data 
Psychology Data 
Real Estate Data 
Retail & Commerce Data 
Social Data 
Space Exploration Data 
Sports & Entertainment Data 
Web Data
- Data Categories
- Agriculture Data
- B2B Data
- Biometric Data
- Company Data
- Conservation Data
- Demographic Data
- Economic Data
- Environmental Data
- Geospatial Data
- Healthcare Data
- Individual Data
- Industry-Specific Data
- Internet of Things (IoT) Data
- Legal and IP Data
- People and Employment Data
- Political Data
- Psychology Data
- Real Estate Data
- Retail & Commerce Data
- Social Data
- Space Exploration Data
- Sports & Entertainment Data
- Web Data
Smart Ship
What is a Smart Ship?
A sea-faring vessel using a variety of sensors to manage its regular processes and navigation is a smart ship. Uses of this IoT technology range from single vessel to fleet management. However, even management of a single ship involves using massive amounts of data.
Why Is It Important to Have a Good Smart Ship?
Smart ships can automate fuel reminders, cargo monitoring, and employee scheduling and management. It also includes predictive maintenance, navigation, and communication between ships and managers or between ships and ports. In short, smart ships improve vessel, fleet, crew, and passenger safety while maximizing efficiency.
What Internal Data Should I Have for a Good Smart Ship?
An effective smart ship requires a number and variety of sensors and monitors. Sensors may include cargo RFID readers and GPS sensors. Monitors, meanwhile, may record moisture, humidity, sonar, and CO2 emissions. The ship’s cargo and route will determine which sensors are necessary or helpful.
What External Data Is Essential for a Good Ship?
Most external data include points of interest along shipping or cruise routes, for planned or surprise stops to restock, refuel, or seek refuge.
Another vital data source is weather data. Weather forecasts, in particular, help immensely in smart ship management.
What External Data May Prove Useful for a Good Ship?
Additional useful data sources may include local news along specific sea routes and of the countries that port destinations are in. Countries may change their entry requirements due to Covid-19, for example. Or, political protests may block or delay docking or unloading.
What Are the Main Challenges of this Use Case?
The main challenge of this use case is the huge amount of data generated that must be updated and analyzed in real time. Even on a single ship, the amount of data can seem overwhelming; managing an entire fleet only more so.
Further, when a ship or a fleet can only be updated with IoT technology piecemeal, the various sensors may not integrate well with each other or with a ship’s motherboard. Converting various data sources into one format automatically and seamlessly, therefore, can be difficult.
Interesting Case Studies and Blogs to Look Into
Marine Digital: Smart Ship vs Digital Twin
ResearchGate: Smart ships and the changing maritime ecosystem
Tangible Examples of Impact
Mr. Sang-yong Kim, the director of marineworks said, “In order to realize the complete automation and efficient configuration of the ship’s IoT platform, not only the program development but also the optimal configuration of the ship’s integrated network, navigation/engine, alarms and cargo information are optimized to process more than 4 million cases of data per day.”
Connected Categories
Connected Datasets
Windward Know Your Vessel (KYV)
Windward Know Your Vessel (KYV) enables verification and monitoring of ship identities and ensure they meet regulatory expectations.
Vesseltracker Genscape Maritime Reports
Genscape Vesseltracker Maritime Reports provides reports on crude oil. Biodiesel and fertilizer sectors.
IBM PAIRS Services
IBM PAIRS Services provides queryable geospatial and temporal data in the form of maps, satellite images, weather data, drone data, and other data.
Factual Global Places
Factual Global Places is a proprietary data set of billions of points of interest via 100,000+ unique sources. This data set contains over a hundred million place records in over fifty countries for your marketing, delivery, or other business use.
Loqate Address Capture
Loqate Address Capture verifies addresses as soon as a business name, street name, or zipcode is typed—whether it was spelled correctly or not. The database has geolocation data on over 245 countries and partners with UK’s Royal Mail, Canada Post, Australia Post, and the US Postal Service and is free for up to five addresses per IP per day.
Address Capture also offers mobile customers the ability to search for an address through a tap on their phone screen.