Creating a safer and more efficient maritime sector
The STM Validation Project will demonstrate the STM concept in large-scale test beds in both the Nordic and Mediterranean Seas, encompassing around 300 ships, 13 ports and 5 shore based service centres as well as using the European Maritime Simulator Network – EMSN. The key strategic enablers of STM will be tested and validated. The STM Validation Project has a total budget of approximately 43 million euro and runs from 2015-2019 (project extension from December 2018 to June 2019).
- Over 50 partners
- 13 countries
- Private, public and academic sector involved
- 43 million Euro budget
- Co-financed by the European Union.
- Project period: 2015 until June 2019
SSPA is developing tools for route planning, ship movement prediction and detection of unsafe behavior. The European Maritime Simulator Network (EMSN), is now testing and validated different services as part of, probably, the worlds’ largest maritime test. The services offered are “route optimisation”, ”monitoring services”, ”port call services” and ”ship-to-ship route exchange” leading to increased safety, higher efficiency and reduced environmental impact. A large part of the work relies on AIS data processed with the SSPA EGAC (enterprise GIS analytics cluster), which capacity has evolved dramatically during the last few years.
SSPA’s experts has also been involved in the EU project MONALISA 2.0, during 2013-2015, and then defined different systems and tested them within relatively small scale. SSPAs experts were involved and engaged in different parts of the project. To reduce the risk for collisions, SSPA has developed a route optimizer that creates a voyage plan that also minimizes conflicting traffic situations. SSPA has also developed a novel grounding warning system, learning from historical AIS-data and improved the methods for risk analysis.
Read more at the project web http://stmvalidation.eu
The concrete use of services is demonstrated. M/S Validator is sailing from New York to Umeå, Sweden. During her voyage she benefits from several STM services and interacts with a shore centre and the port.
Contacts
M.Sc. (Naval Arch.)
M.Sc. Risk Management & Safety Engineering
STM Validation, Final conference
Recently, the STM Validation Final conference was held at the headquarter of IMO in London. We discussed how Sea Traffic Management affects safety, efficiency and the environment as well as how the industry is looking at digitization. SSPA’s experts was represented and took part in the demonstrations of the solutions in use and the early results of Route optimisation and Normal behaviour of ships.
The worlds’ largest maritime test? Validation of the STM concept begins
STM is an initiative to establish standardised information sharing with open interfaces. Now the time has come to validate the concept on 300 ships and in 13 ports, testing real-time information sharing to authorized parties in the maritime transport chain. A large part of the work relies on AIS data processed with the SSPA EGAC.
A new method to identify close situations between vessels
As part of the MonaLisa 2.0 project, SSPA has developed a geometric method for identifying close situations between vessels, as well as a very fast mathematical implementation of that method. The method is used for de-conflicting voyage plans in the project as well as analysing traffic from SSPA’s large AIS database.
Voyage optimisation on the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea
The MONALISA project is focusing on efficient, safe and sustainable maritime transport. A Sea Traffic Coordination Centre, similar to that in the aviation sector, will coordinate vessels by offering them fuel-optimised routes. These green routes are calculated using algorithms developed by SSPA.