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Digital Ship Case Studies
Achim Tober
Enhancing your Satellite Communications for Business and for Crew
Nomophobia: anxiety caused by being without
one’s mobile phone [from no + mo(bile) + phobia]
Words of the Year 2012 (Oxford American Dictionary)
Source: cnet.com
Two of the common seafaring countries (Philippines & Russia)
Generation „Y“
Maritime Labour Convention 2006
Regulations According to the Maritime Labour Convention MLC 2006, which comes into effect in this year August 20th, crew members must be provided to: “Reasonable access to ship-to-shore telephone communications, and email and Internet facilities, where available, with any charges for the use of these services being reasonable in amount. “ Accommodation Criteria – Recreation(B3.1.11.4)
MLC 2006
Today‘s ICT challenges
Today’s ICT Challenges - more bandwidth Crew internet:
- new MLC is coming into effect - crew retention
Remote support of PCs and updates ⇒ Less travel expenses and working hours
Data-hungry ship management applications optimizing the safety and the economy of the vessels
Remote training
Total control of monthly costs
Route planning, weather routing and charts ⇒ Fuel management and other operational costs optimization
Remote tele-mechanical engineering (remote diagnosis / repair / training)
Centralized management The satcom provider has a new role and becomes
a strategic partner of the shipping company
The FB Plans we are talking about
As well as the older GB plans that included voice minutes
12 months 24 months
Entry Large Allowance Packages
Standard IP data usage 200MB 2GB 6GB
Indicative monthly fee $901 $1,600 $2,000
SCAP enabled packages
FleetBroadband packages for Crew Welfare
The “All You Can Eat” plan Package Monthly fee Contract
AYCE $ 2,700 24 months
Fixed fee option. Unlimited bandwidth as per the latest “Fair Use Policy” (FUP)
Compatible with FB500 only. Small antenna 60cm/20kg (compared to VSAT)
Easy upgrade from current FleetBroadband plan
Easy installation (1-2 days)
Global coverage
Unaffected by weather
Speed up to 432 kbp/s
Celestial offers this plan catering to requirements for high data usage, typically associated with offering Internet usage to crew via Inmarsat FleetBroadband network.
FleetBroadband packages for crew welfare
Celestial Smartbox Portfolio
Infinity - Main features
Crew calling PINs or registered users
Crew internet access with Pins or
registered users
Web surfing with compression.
Fully managed firewall and router including “fleet wide” rules
E-mail service with compression
File Synchronization
Failover and load balancing
Ship to Shipping company free VoIP Full Termination VoIP
Web Services (SOAP & XML)
Infinity - Supplementary features
Light versus Normal Surfing on Demand
Web Accelerator
Access Control Lists
File Type filtering for e-mail and web, including Smart e-
mail filtering
Advanced Content Filtering including Antivirus
“What-you-see-is-what-you-can-
query/download/execute
Virtual LANs
Vessel live position, speed and heading calculation and status reporting
Traffic measuring and reporting
VPN Connectivity Remote monitoring of critical functions
Security and Audit trail
Kill All – Kill any
Cost efficiency (lower costs for both office and crew)
Cost efficiency - lower costs for both office and crew
The answer is Large Allowance FleetBroadband Plans and INFINITY/Zwana
The larger the package is, the lower cost per MB and per voice min
12.58 12.07 11.90 11.74
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0.88 0.39 0.78 0.75 0.74 0.73 0.52 0.39 0.39 0.00
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Standard 25 MBs 50 MBs 75MBs 200MB 2GB 6GB
Data
Voice
Standard 200MB 2GB 6GB
Monthly fee $130 $901 $1,600 $2,000
Data ($/MB) $12.58 $4.44 $0.88 $0.39
Voice ($/min) $0.78 $0.52 $0.39 $0.39
Avg costs for E&E
Fleet Inm B $1,200 $1,500
$16.00 $20.00
$1.20 $1.50
Inmarsat Case Study
Dorian Hellas 6 vessels
LPG/Tankers
Eletson Corp. 28 vessels
LPG/Tankers
Union Commercial 8 vessels +1Newbuild
Bulk Carriers
Millennia Maritime 9 vessels Tankers
Case Studies
How Dorian are using their 3 GB Plan
Dorian Hellas
6 vessels LPG/Tankers
Configuration: Mix of Sailor FBB 250 or 500 with Infinity, 2 days per installation Remote access to computers on board, 10MB business emails Visiting superintendants have a specialized account for voice and data Dedicated crew prepaid internet computer on board, and wifi on each deck,
crews can choose to use own devices Sell Infinity PINs to crew for voice and data of 25MB Shipping company shares the cost of the monthly fee with crew, especially
on longer voyages where internet is used heavily
Dorian Hellas 3 GB Plan
Fleet Overview – Business & Crew Usage in MB
Fleet Overview – Webgain & Compression
uncompressed compressed data
Fleet Overview – Voice traffic (in minutes)
Eletson Corp. 28 vessels
LPG/Tankers
How Eletson are using their 3 GB Plan Configuration: Infinity and JRC FBB 250, 1 day per installation.
F77 kept for backup Remote access to computers on board using VNC and remote desktop, PMS
systems. Updates for Anti-Virus, PMS, weather and chart updates are automated and sent through GTMail Wifi points on accommodation deck where crew can get online using own
devices Sell Infinity PINs to crew for voice and data use, PINs of 87.5 mins/115 MB Crew especially happy with very low voice rates of the GB plan, big
improvement over normal crew calling cards
Eletson 3 GB Plan
Fleet Overview – Monthly data traffic in MB
Fleet Overview – Business & Crew Usage in MB
How Millennia are using their 3 GB Plan Configuration: Separate Sailor FBB antenna for business and for crew.
1 day Installation time For business traffic over Amosconnect, 3 ships with Sailor FBB 150, rest
have FBB 250 Each ship has a Sailor FBB 500 dedicated to the crew network Started with 2 dedicated computers for internet, one for crew one for
officers, they are now adding WiFi 25MB PINs, which gives about 5-6 hours chatting, but definitely need to use
light surfing so 25MB don’t get used too quick
Millennia Maritime 9 vessels Tankers
Millennia Maritime 3 GB Plan
Vessel Overview – Traffic analysis for one month
Vessel Tracker Visualization using Infinity
How Union Commercial are using their 2 GB Plan
Union Commercial 2 GB Plan
Configuration: Mostly Sailor FBB 250s with some Furuno FBB New plan has meant improved monitoring of vessels, and new options for
business use Photos, Safety Management Reporting and weekly ‘Notice To Mariners’ reports
sent out as well as US Regulatory forms. Crew issued with 25MB PINs and 25 minute voice PINs Crew very pleased at low voice rates of the larger plan. Internet is still picking
up as crew adapt to it, use own devices through WiFi UC looking to expand use of internet, possibly add Skype as an option for crew
Union Commercial 8 vessels
Bulk Carriers
Fleet Overview – Monthly voice traffic for all vessels
Fleet Overview – Monthly data traffic for all vessels
Case Study Conclusions (Inmarsat Larger Allowance plans with Infinity or Zwana)
1. Make economic sense for both office and crew 2. Provide more options for business applications 3. In all cases, crew happiness has improved and
crew retention has been enhanced 4. Help with compliance to near future regulations
GLOBAL XPRESS in 2014
Penalty-free upgrade process
2/6GB PLANS
AYCE PLAN
XPRESSLINK
The Inmarsat Upgrade Pathway
What‘s beside FleetBroadband Technology ?
XpressLink (Inmarsat VSAT solution)
Ku/Ka-band VSAT primary broadband link
FleetBroadband for redundancy and out of Ku-coverage
Integrated solution • Bundled Ku-band and L-band satellite
communication service • VSAT and FleetBroadband terminals
(FB500 or FB250) • VSAT antenna and electronics rack • 1 public IP address • 4 VSAT and 1 FleetBroadband voiceline • A range of applications and support
products to improve operational efficiency
Predictable costs • Unlimited data available at a fixed monthly fee • Inclusive of FleetBroadband data usage
Global Xpress available in 2014
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