The energy management system on your next cruise might be controlled by artificial intelligence.Meyer Group’s digital startup Alfred Maritime debuted the first AI-based energy management system for cruise ships this week at Seatrade Cruise Global, a trade show for the cruise industry.The energy management system helps ship operators and crews understand and analyze a ship’s performance while it’s out at sea and gives the ship’s crew actionable insights on how they could optimize the ship’s energy efficiency, ultimately reducing its fuel consumption and ultimately reduce the ship’s emissions, making it better for the environment.’We have combined our knowledge of maritime operations and ship design with advanced AI, data modeling, machine learning, and simulation models to make ships more efficient and therefore greener,’ said Paul Meyer, managing director of Alfred Maritime and chief information officer, Meyer Group.Germany-based Alfred Maritime was established in 2019 with the goal of digitizing modern ships using the Internet of Things and AI as well as to “provide data and intelligence for greener next-generation vessels.”According to Alfred, simulation models coupled with the accumulated real-time data from multiple onboard systems in a modern IoT platform will allow the crew of a ship to make quick decisions on how to optimize the ship’s performance while simultaneously offering full data transparency to the ship’s operator.The system has an intuitive dashboard, which the group says makes it easy for the crew to understand the ship’s performance with a minimum amount of training and effort.
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The news comes at a time when the cruise industry as a whole is looking at ways to be more sustainable. The cruise line MSC, for instance, recently announced a goal to reach net zero emissions by 2050, and many other cruise lines have set similar goals.A June 2023 study from sustainable transport campaigner The European Federation for Transport and Environment found that 63 cruise ships owned by the Carnival Corporation, for instance, emitted 43% more sulfur oxides than all the 291 million cars in Europe in 2022.
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