Informed decisions through machine learning will keep it afloat & going – Sea News

2020,a new year and this one brings along a sea change for those who deal with thesea business. Keeping in view the business as well as the environmentalaspects, the authorities concerned, have rolled out several directions that thecompanies on and off-the shores need to follow.

Amidst the new rules and guidelines follow there are, of course, institutions growth targets. Recounting a few directions from the authorities concerned, with the Chief Operating Officer of Greensteam Learning Technology Simon Whitford, here we have his insights on how is Greensteam taking up the challenges.

Recently, the UN announced that global GHG emissions must be reduced by 7.6% every year for the next decade. With regard to GreenSteams fuel saving figures, Mr Whitford talks about solutions they have and explains:

GreenSteams ML platform calculates a 30% non-propulsion fuel use for an average non-optimised deep sea voyage. bad weather accounts for half of this fuel use (15%) and poor vessel optimisation makes up the rest (15%). Right now, GreenSteam has tools to measure and improve vessel optimisation. The 3 target areas for vessel optimisation are trim, speed and hull cleanliness. We have solutions for trim and hull cleanliness and we are beta testing a speed optimisation solution. That means we can address this 15% of fuel wastage.

To survive this period of upheaval and changein a sector already grappling with heightened security risks, recruitmentchallenges and rising operational costs, machine learning will be a vital toolin the arsenal of any shipping company, regardless of size, location, or modeof operation.

Embracing machine learning can no longer beregarded as a nice-to-have: in the post-2020 world, it is a Must-have.

Talking on the future strategies of the company, Mr Whitford says, On our roadmap we will apply our decade in development ML platform to route. Lets say this can help avoid 3% of poor weather losses. That would allow shipping companies to meaningfully address 18% of fuel use with our zero capex, zero down-time machine learning tools.

From 2020, shipping companies operatingoutside emissions control areas (ECAs) have to meet tighter regulations in theshape of the well-documented global 0.50% sulphur cap. The IMO 2020 has broughtthe current sulphur limit outside ECAs down from 3.5%. Technology, machinelearning to be more specific, has the solutions.

Machine learning is an advanced form ofartificial intelligence in which systems use powerful algorithms and logic tocut through the noise. By learning from experience, and by being able toidentify patterns and discover trends, decisions can be made with minimal humaninvolvement.

Mr Whitford , when asked about challenges replies with the term Not Exactly. He chooses to put it very differently. He states: There is an adoption period for the technology when the algorithm is learning about the ship and crew are learning about the technology. Legacy models have to discard 90% of (good) data to create their simple, shallow stereotype of each vessel. This creates a very poor image of the way the vessel will react in various conditions, and means they cannot measure fuel wastage with any accuracy, and forecasting performance is impossible.

He adds The difficulty with machine learning is the initial 3 month learning period to capture the behaviour of the ship across a wide variety of operating conditions but this is necessary to thoroughly understand how the individual vessel will operate, divide up the areas of fuel wastage and to enable speed, trim and fouling forecasts.

Theera of the machines is finally in full swing. There is proof all over that machinelearning models are highly adaptive. They are continuously revised and refined,becoming more accurate as new data enriches the dataset. Solutions based onmachine learning enable businesses solve complex problems quickly, and muchmore effectively, than has been possible traditionally.

To sum it up, its all about improving efficiency to survive during and beyond rapid and deep change. By helping human experts to make better-informed decisions, accurate predictive automated modelling frees up the creative human for alternative tasks, which may include responding to emergencies or other unforeseen events.

Sea News Feature, January 13

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