- A Digital Demand
- Data Sharing Needs Conceptual Agreements
- Agreed Concepts Need Technical Platforms
- The “Internet of Maritime” (IoM)
The Perseus system is a solution to interconnect any desired maritime actor to allow data sharing and collaboration, independent of the systems used by the individual participant. With limited individual adoptions, a port can connect with upstream and downstream ports, individual ships or shipping companies or other actors, within or outside the port. Perseus can be used by the existing infrastructure, e.g. a PCS, to empower its capabilities. The systems of the desired partners are not of relevance anymore, same as in the general Internet one user doesn’t need to care about the systems one is connecting with. As such Perseus establishes an IoM by allowing inter-operability between the different involved systems following ships’ port rotation schemas – within and between ports.
The implementation of system wide data sharing requires agreement of the actors to follow a certain concept, everyone can rely on.
One fundamental concept is to share data between all actors and agree on collaboration to achieve the maximum benefit of the ecosystem. In aviation the Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) concept has been established to do exactly that. And in maritime the PortCDM has been developed, validated and is now being implemented. This concept builds on common agreements between involved actors on how they share data in standardized ways, utilize the information and define clear and reliable estimations, like estimated and actual times of departure and arrival as well as for operations associated to the purpose of call.
As the maritime world – ports as well as the shipping industry – is building up support for this concept, the implementation needs tools to allow the data sharing and collaboration concept of PortCDM to succeed.
Local installations are, with port community systems (PCS) in ports, terminal operating systems (TOS) or fleet management systems in ship operation centres, already in place. Various initiatives are launched to connect key players together, but what is often missing is a brokering platform to interact hassle free with not only the key players, but with all actors.
When industry migrated toward digitization, initial installation established peer-to-peer data exchange, between key partners with dedicated communication lines. This development has proved lack of the needed scalability and flexibility to keep up with the demand. The introduction of the Internet, together with secure connectivity through this open system, like VPN, solved this issue.
As maritime is starting to implement data sharing and collaboration, the same concepts resurface: peer-to-peer connectivity, e.g. from one ship platform to one Port Community System (PCS).
The maritime ecosystem can and has to learn from the past and adopt best practices already implemented and proven right.
The time is right for the Internet of Maritime” (IoM) which will be tailored to the needs of the maritime domain with the necessary flexibility and scalability of many-to-many connectivity within a secure infrastructure mitigating Cyber Risks.
Perseus
- Implementing the IoM
- Enable External BDI Interface
- Connecting Alliances with the World
- Secure, Flexible and Scalable IoM Tool
The Perseus system is a solution to interconnect any desired maritime actor to allow data sharing and collaboration, independent of the systems used by the individual participant. With limited individual adoptions, a port can connect with upstream and downstream ports, individual ships or shipping companies or other actors, within or outside the port. Perseus can be used by the existing infrastructure, e.g. a PCS, to empower its capabilities. The systems of the desired partners are not of relevance anymore, same as in the general Internet one user doesn’t need to care about the systems one is connecting with. As such Perseus establishes an IoM by allowing inter-operability between the different involved systems following ships’ port rotation schemas – within and between ports.
Often external Business Data Intelligent Services (BDI) is used to increase situational awareness, inform partners on desired actions and utilize Big Data Analysis to gain efficiency. Perseus allows their users to fluently share BDI output with any partner in a secure way without the need to build individual connectors between themselves. Perseus is the broker between different system environments.
Alliances of ship lines are being established and are building platforms to interact with each other. These are also building links to the port actors of the alliance members. At the same time alliances of terminal operators are growing with their own systems solutions. While building alliance proprietary platforms isn’t easy, a growing headache is how to connect to actors that are not part of the alliance, for example if they are used as spot charter partners. Here Perseus provides the solution. It can connect the different platforms by being a neutral provider of services for anyone to connect to, provide data to, and to consume data from.
Perseus provides:
- Standardized message exchanges (S-211…)
- Safe and secure digital interaction
- Enhanced situational awareness
- Multiple Sources (Data Input)
- Collaborative decision- making based on real-time data sharing
- AI, Deep Learning & Blockchain solutions
- Global Implementation
- Compliancy with the recommendations
of the IPCDMC - Opportunities to enhance existing systems solutions and tools for situational awareness