Globally renowned fleet optimisation provider and Lloyd’s Register subsidiary, i4 Insight, has joined forces with data collection pioneers, Danelec Marine (Danelec), to solve fleet performance challenges.
This new industry partnership, which brings together specialists in data collection and data analysis, will mean customers can get a more cost-effective solution to vessel optimisation.
i4 Insight - Danelec Marine partnership
As the maritime sector deals with digital transformation and decarbonisation pressures, seafarers face increasingly complex and difficult industry challenges, and it appears that collaborative working may be the only way to create one accurate, comprehensive data source.
Joel Meltzner, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of i4 Insight, said “Danelec are experts at accessing and collecting vessel data, they have equipment installed on thousands of vessels. Our new partnership now means that the Danelec data can be fed directly into our i4 fleet optimisation platform for AI analysis, without any further equipment being installed. We can use this data to provide accurate and actionable insights for ship owners and charterers to improve vessel performance.”
Danelec Marine currently works with over 10,000 vessels and this will provide copious amounts of new data, which will be fed into the machine learning technology, in order to allow it to jump to the next level of intelligence.
Quick and easy plug-and-play solution
Partnering with i4 allows us to offer our customers a quick and easy plug-and-play solution"
Casper Jensen, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Danelec, said “Partnering with i4 allows us to offer our customers a quick and easy plug-and-play solution, to utilise the navigational and engine room data collected onboard, to improve vessel efficiency, while reducing their carbon footprint, to comply with upcoming emission reduction regulations.”
Captain John Horner, who heads up the i4 Insight Alliance, said “Our customers use the i4 Platform because they want one digital fleet performance platform and everything in one place. We pride ourselves on listening to customers and pushing the bar of innovation, so when we explored the possibility of Danelec joining the alliance, it made a lot of sense.”
Leveraging the strengths from each partner
The goal of the i4 Alliance programme is to leverage the strengths from each partner, so as to provide ship owners and charterers with more efficient and effective solutions centered around fleet management, vessel optimisation and decarbonisation strategies.
Joel Meltzner explains, “The key concept of the i4 Alliance is not about simply adding unrelated partners, but instead building a network of providers that complement one another and, more importantly, help shipping companies solve complex problems. This approach allows us to bring new, innovative and integrated products and services to market very quickly, with the goal of exceeding our customers’ expectations.”
i4 Insight
i4 Insight operates as the fleet optimisation subsidiary of Lloyd’s Register’s Maritime Performance Services division and last year acquired market renowned artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning business, GreenSteam.