Navigation service provider Orca AI, creator of an automated situational awareness platform, claims analysis conducted by the company reveals significant gains delivered by its platform for customers in the last 12 months
These include reducing the number of potential incidents and collisions, and increasing operational efficiencies to deliver both fuel cost and CO2 emissions savings.
The analysis was conducted across 110 vessels spanning tankers, bulkers, container ships and roro vessels, which were equipped with the Orca AI platform throughout 2022.
Orca AI calculated that during this period, its customers saw a 26.9% reduction in the number of close encounter events, a 21.6% decline in sharp manoeuvres, and an 18% reduction in extreme drops of speed.
The safety analysis was conducted on 10M nautical miles of data collected in open waters by ships using the Orca AI platform. On average, each vessel experienced three close encounter events per 1,000 nautical miles sailed.
Each close encounter event was analysed with various KPIs including the closest point of approach, time to closest point of approach, reaction time, average speed over ground, average cross-track error and weather conditions.
The company believes these improvements in operational efficiency led to a 66,300-tonne reduction in CO2 emissions in total, helping customers to meet their sustainability goals and ensuring compliance with new CII regulations.
“Orca AI was founded with a fundamental commitment to help create a safer, more efficient and sustainable shipping industry,” said Orca co-founder and chief technical officer Dor Raviv.
“The masters, officers and fleet managers we worked with quickly realised that Orca AI generates a real, tangible impact, and helps to mitigate the associated costs of safety incidents, downtime and reputational damage.”
Speaking of the results, Mr Raviv said, “The impressive numbers are a result of our cutting-edge technology, and a close collaboration with our innovative and forward-thinking customers. The learnings from data collected by our platform helped our customers to adjust their companies’ safety policies and navigation-related operations and processes.”
Orca AI’s collison avoidance platform is specifically designed for maritime markets and its software is supported by computer vision sensors, thermal and low-light cameras, and AI-powered algorithms generated from multiple sources, to provide predictions and alerts on hazards at sea.
Crew are warned of impending hazards while a ship management tool allows onshore teams to watch the sea crew’s navigation performance and COLREGS compliance.
The software received a product design assessment certification from class society ABS last year.
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