Introducing Vessel Environmental Compliance Reporting and Energy Management: From ESRG Few industries face greater environmental scrutiny or more demanding record-keeping requirements than maritime shipping. Waste water, bilge, ballast treatment and exchange, fuel switching and sampling, oily water separators, vessel general permits, the TMSA, SEEMP, forms, engine books, logbooks, day reports, sample collections it all mean a never-ending paperwork burden for the crew. And as misreporting and high levels of non-compliance continues, fines and convictions are becoming more severe, increasing the financial and criminal liability for the crew and company. Add to this the high cost of bunker fuel and the drive for vessel energy efficiency, and it all calls for a revolution in data collection and energy management onboard your ships. Get Away From Paper-based Compliance: In today's modern fleet, nearly 90% of all the information required to create and verify log entries, generate compliance reports, and analyze the ship s energy footprint and environmental performance is already held in electronic form by a vessel's onboard systems. Hand-held data entry devices, using security technologies such as Personal Identification Number (PIN) identities and timestamped photos, can provide electronic input from visual inspections. All the maritime industry needs in order to get away from paper-based reporting is a software platform that is both powerful enough to capture, organize and consolidate that electronic data for conformance monitoring and daily report generation, and affordable enough for commercial ship owners and ships managers burdened by heavy regulatory and financial pressures. Introducing ESRG Technologies powerful and affordable whole-ship compliance monitoring offering: Ostiaedge SmartShip. Powerful, because as the primary condition-based maintenance system for the US Navy, ESRG actively monitors and collects over 7,000 electronic data points from thousands of shipboard systems on more than 100 US warships. Affordable, because Ostiaedge SmartShip was created by marine engineers specifically for vessel monitoring of ballast, emissions, fuel usage and waste water.
With easy-to-read dashboards, alarms for out-of-parameter performance and powerful drill-down analytics, Ostiaedge SmartShip gives crews and shore-side superintendents a comprehensive environmental and energy software platform that includes: Energy Management: SmartShip calculates performance parameters based on continuous measurements of fuel consumption and engine load, and when matched with diagnostic algorithms, helps masters to create optimum speed and engine use profiles. SmartShip interfaces with all of the major OEM fuel performance management systems, and can also monitor non-propulsion areas, including auxiliary boilers, water production, HVAC and lighting, waste heat utilization, and electric power generation - allowing you to accurately and continuously monitor and assess your ship s total environmental footprint. Ballast Management: SmartShip cross matches Nav/Con and ballast-related data taken directly from your vessel s onboard systems and sensors location, speed, wave height, water temperature, ballast tank levels, tank water and gas temperatures, salinity, tank transfer activity, valve and flow information providing both ship and shore with a complete and real-time history of ballasting activity. Fuel Switching: SmartShip cross-matches data taken directly from engines, fuel sensors and valves with the vessel s Nav/Con data in order to validate exact speed and position where fuel-switching took place. SmartShip can also interface directly with other fuel accountability systems, including FuelTrax and Kongsberg s K-Chief Vessel Performance System. Oily Water Separator and Bilge System Monitoring: SmartShip collects data on OWS run-times, flow-through volumes and OWS treatment results, sludge and bilge tank pumps, valves and tank level indicators and cross-matches that data Nav/Con output on time and vessel location. It can also read data output coming directly from OEM oily water separators and integrate that data into SmartShip s alert system for out-of-parameter performance. Emissions Management: SmartShip can calculate emissions output based on fuel quality, consumption and engine load, or collect data directly from OEM stack monitors or laboratory-on-acart type emissions monitoring systems, in order to verify in real-time the NOx, SOx, hydrocarbons, O2, CO, CO2, and particulate matter emissions output for each engine.
Routine Daily Compliance Reporting: Capturing that information electronically at source, and along with any additional information entered by hand-held devices or shipboard laptops, SmartShip provides automatic report generation capabilities which include not only environmental compliance reports like hazardous air pollutants (HAPS), toxic air pollutants (TAPS), or greenhouse gases (GHG), but also standard logs, including: Oil records Noon reports Lubrication oil records Sludge And with SmartShip s easy-to-use, drag-and-drop Engineering Knowledge Base (EKB) editor, your chief engineers and superintendents can quickly and easily cross-match data outputs in order to create sophisticated Integrated Performance Analysis Reports (IPARs) that can allow you to customize views across ship type, fleet, or trade. Ship and Shore Availability: All of this analytical power can be made available to both the crew and to shorebased engineers in ship-based or enterprise editions: SmartShip Vessel Edition: Provides a ship-based focus of energy performance and environmental compliance, including out-of-parameter alerts and drill-down capabilities by system and report. SmartShip Shore (Enterprise) Edition: Connected by existing satellite technologies onboard the ship, the Shore edition supports both same-vessel and combined-vessel views providing visibility into energy performance, usage comparisons, alerts and non-compliance trends between ships across the fleet. Open and Integrated: Based on Mimosa open systems standards, and with the ability to collect and cross-match data from almost any sensor or electronic output onboard, Ostiaedge SmartShip acts as a systems integration platform collecting data from a multitude of different sources: engines, OEM sensors and monitoring systems, Navigation/Control systems, or data entered manually during visual inspections from handheld devices or laptops. SmartShip also consolidates reporting data from a variety of electronic sources, eliminating the need to monitor various separate systems.
Supports Your Fleet Management Software: Ostiaedge SmartShip can be run stand alone, or, for companies that want to manage all maintenance-related activities centrally, SmartShip integrates seamlessly into your current Voyage Management modules providing your shore-side managers with pass-through alerts and drilldown functionality to the individual alert level all available directly through your fleet management software system. And if you choose the Software-as-a-Service option (SAAS), ESRG s can host, maintain, and monitor the Ostiaedge software platform for you providing you with hassle-free access to all the SmartShip Shore (enterprise) software functionality via the web. ESRG Solutions and Services: ESRG s skilled service engineers have a unique understanding of IMO MARPOL and regional environmental regulations with shipboard machinery and information technology, and can help your team to create an Environmental and Energy (EE) program that includes: Machinery and inspection point mapping A gap analyses of the vessel s critical sensors and data points Performance norms and parameter setting Ensuring data and IT systems interoperability and verifiability Crew and superintendent software training Working with Classification Societies, ESRG can even help you to ensure that the integrity and auditability of your data and systems conform to Class standards for environmental reporting.
Benefits: Provides the company with a clear, verifiable record of shipboard environmental compliance activity Alerts supervisors to any potential non-compliance issues before they get out of control Eliminates misreporting Greatly reduces the crew s paper-based data collection burden