Aware Mate
From local bridge prompts
to pilot-ready watchkeeping evidence
Aware Mate is deployed as a controlled bridge pilot. It uses an on-board camera and edge unit to detect sustained patterns consistent with alertness loss, attention drift, abnormal inactivity or weak watch engagement, then supports the bridge with local graded prompts.
For operators, the pilot produces period-level review signals: valid monitoring, alert load, long-absence flags and aggregated watchkeeping-state trends, without identity recognition, emotion recognition or raw video ashore by default.
On-board by default
No identity recognition
No emotion recognition
No raw video ashore
Advisory only
- Operational bridge test: 72h continuous run
- 98.7% uptime
- P95 alert latency 2.4 s
Modern bridges are changing watchkeeping
Modern bridges are more seated, more screen-centric, more automated and more connected. That can reduce manual workload, but it can also change the officer’s role into passive monitoring of systems, screens and alerts.
The safety gap is not only fatigue. It is whether active watchkeeping remains intact during routine watches, automation-heavy operation, administrative workload and low-stimulus periods.
The best operators will not wait for casualty reports to tell them how watchkeeping is changing.
What Aware Mate does
Earlier local support
Local graded prompts when sustained patterns are consistent with reduced alertness, attention drift, abnormal inactivity or weak engagement.
Active watchkeeping review
Aggregated trends on coverage, exposure, local recovery and nuisance burden, interpreted by humans under operator procedure.
Watch context
Occupancy and long-absence context where enabled, without identity recognition or continuous raw-video export by default.
Context-weighted review
Route phase, night/day, traffic or automation context where enabled, helping operators see when watchkeeping exposure matters most.
Pilot-readiness evidence and resources
Operational bridge test video
72-hour live bridge run; capture, inference, alerting, logging and reporting.
72 hour test summary
Uptime, latency, false-critical alerts, coverage and crew acceptance.
Crew Trust Charter
What the system does, what it does not do, what shore does not see, and how pause, mute and override work.
For operators / HSQE
Active Watchkeeping Support Pilot for commercial bridges.
For integrators / bridge OEMs
Bounded edge subsystem beside bridge automation, with defined interfaces and no navigation-control role.
For P&I / loss prevention
Privacy-bounded watchkeeping-state signals for loss-prevention dialogue and leading-indicator review.
For inland navigation
Active Watchkeeping Support Pilot for river, canal and trackpilot-equipped operations.
A different kind of bridge AI
Some bridge AI is designed to automate the ship. Some systems create remote visibility of what happens on board. Aware Mate is different: it supports active watchkeeping locally and turns watchkeeping-state signals into privacy-bounded operational review.
The purpose is not to score people. The purpose is to preserve professional watchkeeping as bridge work becomes more automated, screen-led and monitoring-heavy.
Privacy and trust by design
Built in
- On-board processing by default
- No identity recognition
- No emotional recognition
- No raw video ashore by default
- Advistory outputs only
- Human review inside operator SOP
Not for
- Crew ranking
- Emotion inference
- Automated discipline
- Automated fitness-for-duty decisions
- Raw-video shore surveillanceby default
Operational value for owners and managers
Earlier intervention
Supports the bridge team before a developing loss of alertness becomes a near miss or escalation event.
Better operational review
Shows patterns over time so operators can review consistency, hot spots, and improvement after corrective action.
Integration and deployment
Fits practical bridge deployment and can complement existing bridge procedures rather than forcing a new surveillance model.
Incident analysis
Bridge incidents, causal patterns, and where earlier vigilance support could have helped.
Downloads and references
Operator briefs, external studies, and supporting documents for further review.
Discuss an Active Watchkeeping Support Pilot
A focused 1-vessel / 1-bridge pilot can assess bridge fit, local alerts, nuisance burden, crew acceptance, privacy/SOP boundaries and close-out value.
Typical path: scope → install → crew briefing → silent calibration → active operation → close-out decision