Aware Mate
From local bridge prompts
to pilot-ready watchkeeping evidence
Aware Mate is available for controlled bridge pilots. An on-board camera and edge unit monitor defined visual indicators related to presence, attention and alertness, supporting the bridge team with local graded prompts.
Pilots provide aggregated information on monitoring coverage, alert load, prolonged absence and watchkeeping patterns for operational review. Aware Mate does not identify crew or analyse emotions. Raw video is not sent ashore by default.
On-board by default
No identity recognition
No emotion recognition
No raw video ashore by default
Advisory only
- 72-hour operational bridge trial
- 98.7% uptime
- P95 eyes-closed alert: 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.
Operational context
Operators can review aggregated watchkeeping indicators alongside the vessel’s operating context. Automated use of selected navigation and bridge-alert inputs is being developed and evaluated.
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 emotion recognition
- No raw video ashore by default
- Advisory outputs only
- Human review inside operator SOP
Not for
- Crew ranking
- Emotion inference
- Automated discipline
- Automated fitness-for-duty decisions
- Raw-video shore surveillance by 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.
Frequently asked questions
Answers to common questions on deployment, privacy, alerts, and bridge fit.
Incident analysis
Bridge incidents, causal patterns, and where earlier vigilance support could have helped.
Downloads and references
On-board processing, reporting boundaries, and deployment-specific retention, access and governance.
Discuss an Active Watchkeeping Support Pilot
A one-vessel, one-bridge pilot evaluates installation fit, prompt behaviour, nuisance burden, crew acceptance and the usefulness of operational reporting, with agreed privacy and operating procedures.
Typical path: scope → installation → crew briefing → calibration → active operation → evaluation and next steps