Loizos Isaias, Manager Maritime Service Centre & Advisory DNV GL – Maritime, Till F. Braun, Market Development Manager DNV GL – Maritime, Christos Giordamlis, Managing Director Prisma Electronics SA, Kostas Alachmanetis, Sales and Business Development Director at Prisma Electronics UK
Posidonia 2016: DNV GL and Prisma Electronics cooperate to advance fleet performance management
Athens, 8 June 2016: DNV GL and Prisma Electronics have signed a partnership agreement on fleet performance management. Prisma’s LAROS system is a holistic wireless onboard data collection platform for vessel performance management. DNV GL’s ECO Insight portal will provide advanced fleet performance analytics based on LAROS onboard data.
“The partnership will enable customers to manage their entire fleet based on unified and reliable information from any vessel’s system through the collection of data from all equipment of interest, normalizing the data into meaningful KPIs for analytics, and the aggregation of homogenized data from multiple vessels into DNV GL’s ECO Insight portal. The combined solution promises a new era in fleet performance management,” says Christos Giordamlis, Managing Director of Prisma Electronics.
“By working with such a reliable remote condition monitoring supplier as Prisma Electronics, we can provide shipping companies with a complete overview of their fleet. Often only some vessels have autologging equipment onboard. Our cooperation ensures there are no blind spots in our customer’s fleet performance management,” says Ioannis Chiotopoulos, DNV GL Regional Manager for the East Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Sea at DNV GL Maritime. “The data provided by Prisma also enables us to generate additional performance insights such as information about hull and engine degradation, benchmarks and market averages,” he adds.
DNV GL and Prisma Electronics have been working together on customer projects over the last six months and proved that the partnership works technically and operationally.
Prisma’s LAROS platform is an innovative patented platform that enables remote monitoring and analysis of vessels’ operational parameters. LAROS is able to wirelessly collect, filter and normalize the varied data from any systems in a vessel, and present unified reliable data to existing applications on board and onshore. Customized KPIs help to increase vessel efficiency, enable performance-based maintenance and accurate forecasting.
DNV GL’s performance management portal ECO Insight provides a comprehensive and easily accessible way to manage the performance of a fleet, including voyage, hull & propeller and engine & systems performance. It enriches the customers’ own fleet reports with industry data, such as Automatic Identification System (AIS), weather, or fuel, and provides unique benchmarking capabilities. Advanced engineering methods, for example hull fouling prediction based on CFD, are also packaged into the portal. Since its launch beginning of 2015 ECO Insight has become the largest performance solution in shipping. DNV GL and Prisma Electronics will work together for an outcome that will change today’s operations in a greener and more efficient way that also complies with existing and forthcoming obligations like MRV and EEDI.
Caption: From left to right: Loizos Isaias, Manager Maritime Service Centre & Advisory DNV GL – Maritime, Till F. Braun, Market Development Manager DNV GL – Maritime, Christos Giordamlis, Managing Director Prisma Electronics SA, Kostas Alachmanetis, Sales and Business Development Director at Prisma Electronics UK.
About Prisma Electronics
Prisma Electronics is a CERN award winning company with 25 years of experience in ICT and electronics for defence, space and enterprise software. As part of its continuous effort for technical development and excellence, the company has ongoing collaborations and R&D relationships with over 100 researchers from universities and research institutes across Europe.
Prisma’s LAROS platform is a proven solution with hundreds of installations, honoured with the Lloyd’s List Greek Shipping 2015 Technical Achievement Award. The company has established presence in Greece, UK and the USA. For more information visit www.prismael.com
About DNV GL
Driven by its purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV GL enables organizations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. Operating in more than 100 countries, the company’s 15,000 professionals are dedicated to helping their customers in the maritime, oil & gas, energy and other industries to make the world safer, smarter and greener. For more information visit www.dnvgl.com/maritime