Danish offshore support vessel owner Esvagt teamed up with Metis Cyberspace Technology for real-time monitoring and intelligent analytics of its fleet of service operation (SOVs) and emergency response vessels
Metis used this partnership to expand its portfolio of data acquisition and performance monitoring solutions to offer value-adding services to other OSV owners.
It used Esvagt’s operational expertise and data to develop advanced performance evaluation analytics of SOVs, which are built to fulfil multiple roles, as a transport ship, accommodation vessel, warehouse and workshop, while located in remote offshore windfarms.
“The result is an example of how advanced analytics deliver a competitive edge, in this case creating the opportunity for SOVs to offer added-value services to end clients,” said Metis Cyberspace Technology chief executive Panos Theodossopoulos.
Metis developed a method of visualising SOV operations, to correlate the full range of vessel activities to fuel efficiency and emissions in the context of a five-day forecast for weather conditions, said Mr Theodossopoulos.
Features include a new depiction of total fuel oil consumption by activity across multiple scenarios, including transit, personnel transfer and time-in-port, which takes account of different weather conditions
“The new functionality supports better voyage planning and performance at sea during the key tasks which define SOV utilisation,” said Esvagt deputy chief executive Kristian Ole Jakobsen.
“In doing so, AI-based analytics is helping vessel operators to contribute to a more efficient and sustainable offshore wind industry.”
The enhanced software functionality also introduces a heightened level of transparency to dynamic positioning (DP) operations, taking into consideration that DP systems play an important role in maintaining positions and ensuring the safe transfer of technicians to offshore installations using walk-to-work gangways.
Metis developed a DP motion analysis application to analyse the performance of the vessel’s power system during DP and provide aggregated information on SOV performance based on fuel and energy efficiency, environmental conditions and motion dynamics.
Also new is Metis’ functionality harvesting weather forecast and vessel performance data with the transparency to help site managers and vessel operators work together to schedule maintenance most effectively.
Smart Scheduler refines existing Metis voyage routeing optimisation to take account planning for windfarm operations, including safety requirements.
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