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Helm Order Monitor
Introducing Helm Order Monitor, the groundbreaking solution designed to address the critical issue of inadequate helm order monitoring between helmsmen and marine pilots or navigators.
Learn from history: major maritime disasters like the Costa Concordia and Exxon Valdez catastrophes were exacerbated by errors in helm order execution. These incidents underscore the urgent need for a solution that ensures accurate and reliable communication on the navigational bridge. Helm Order Monitor tackles this problem head-on, combining automatic speech recognition and ship sensor data to continuously validate helm commands in real time.
Our technology goes beyond monitoring helm orders. By incorporating speech emotion recognition, it detects elevated stress levels on the bridge, providing timely warnings to prevent unsafe conditions before they escalate. This proactive approach significantly reduces the risk of human error, a leading factor in maritime accidents.
The system’s versatility extends beyond onboard use; it also serves as a critical tool in nautical simulators, enhancing training for correct helm order execution.
Think of Helm Order Monitor as the ‘Lane Departure Warning’ system for maritime navigation – continuously safeguarding vessels and ensuring safer journeys at sea.
Aware Mate
Introducing Aware Mate, a state-of-the-art solution born from our mission to enhance maritime and inland waterways transportation safety through advanced video detection.
The problem at hand is clear: insufficient fatigue monitoring in bridge watchkeeping, a factor contributing to a significant number of maritime and inland waterways accidents. Estimates suggest that 25% of marine casualties are caused by fatigue. The International Maritime Organization’s research revealed that one in four seafarers admitted to falling asleep while on watch.
The existing solution, the Bridge Navigational Watch & Alarm System (BNWAS), introduced two decades ago, has its shortcomings. The dormant period, ranging from 3 to 12 minutes, allows for potential lapses in vigilance. Aware Mate steps in as the innovative solution, introducing fatigue cameras to bridge watchkeeping.
The intelligent face and eyeball tracking algorithm, paired with infrared technology, ensures accurate fatigue detection day or night. Aware Mate goes beyond traditional alarm systems by actively monitoring physiological indicators, providing real-time feedback and preemptive alerts before critical lapses occur.
Furthermore, Aware Mate can be seamlessly integrated into existing BNWAS setups, ensuring a smooth transition to a more robust and proactive safety protocol. This ensures safer seas and waterways, reducing the risk of human error-related incidents.
Project Sentinel
AI-powered underwater gliders — the speed cameras of the sea
Illegal oily discharges and sewage dumps happen mostly at night, beyond the reach of satellite spotters. Sentinel gliders change the game: like traffic speed cameras, they patrol shipping lanes 24/7, automatically sample the water in a ship’s wake, and record violations the moment they occur.
Each bright-yellow glider cruises for months below the surface, using advanced sensors and onboard AI to detect oil, chemicals and sewage. When contamination is found, the glider pops up, beams the evidence to authorities in seconds, and then dives back to its silent watch.
Real-time proof, zero blind spots—making polluters pay, not the ocean.
More in development
From the press
Helm Order Monitor is the first of its kind technological solution to the problem of insufficient monitoring of helm orders between helmsman and pilot or navigator onboard ships. We are fixing this problem with an electronic device that combines automatic speech recognition and data from the ship’s sensors.
ELNAV aims to make navigation at sea safer. I spent thirty years in the merchant marine. During that time, I noticed that there was still a lot to be gained when it came to safety at sea. That is why I founded Elnav, which is part of the ICT Županija ecosystem. Through Elnav, I developed the Helm Order Monitor. This is a system that prevents many of the human errors that occur in the manual steering of ships, thereby increasing safety levels during navigation.
Many accidents at sea are due to errors in communication between seafarers. An automatic voice monitoring system for the ship’s bridge will ensure greater safety. With the speech recognition system and support from Fraunhofer IDMT in Oldenburg, Germany, ELNAV, a start-up company based in Split, Croatia, is developing what it calls a »Helm Order Monitor«.
Human error accounts for 75% of marine liability losses
While huge strides continue to be made in improving marine safety, human error remains, by far, the most important factor in marine liability claims and losses, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) in its Global Claims Review: Liability in Focus.
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