Compared to satellite weather, crowdsourcing from other vessels uses
actual measurements that are more accurate, higher resolution and in
real time. Even the best voyage optimization software is only as good as
the data it uses.
With actual measurements from other vessels up ahead, a ship can more accurately calculate its arrival time in port, allowing it to reduce boat speed as much as possible. This is the best way to reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Data that captains can trust
when planning a route. No need to risk heading off course. Just save on fuel and
meet
CII emissions regulations.
If you are a weather-routing company or a weather service, we have proprietary IP that can help you. The SailTimer™ crowdsourcing platform includes: serverless cloud database, algorithms, 9 years of crowdsourced data from our Wind Instrument, data points from ships offshore (red dots on map below), sensors and electronics, and worldwide userbase.
Our low-cost Air Link™ is easy to install, and can send data from a ship every second. News announcement with fleet of 25 ships. This 2-minute Air Link demo on YouTube shows it working on a NMEA 2000 network with other marine electronics, and receiving Bluetooth wireless wind data, while using wifi and Bluetooth with the Air Link app and internet via wifi, cellular or satellite.
Ships can offset emissions using carbon credits. But our crowdsourced data for weather routing reduces those costs: The shipping sector has so far escaped the EU carbon market, which requires factories and power plants to buy permits when they emit carbon dioxide, providing a financial incentive to emit less. That is set to change from 2024, when shipping companies will have to buy EU carbon permits to cover 40% of their emissions, rising to 70% in 2025 and 100% in 2026 (ref). The rule will also make ships pay for 50% of their emissions on international voyages to or from the EU (ref).
Our company is called SailTimer for a reason. With better weather
data, your routes allow just-in-time arrival, where you can slow-steam
and reduce fuel consumption.
Talk to us about adding the
current or next-generation Air Link to your ships. We can crowdsource
at scale with marine weather, bathymetry or any other NMEA data such
as engine RPMs. Our online database was established in an 8-company
consortium for crowdsourced wind maps with funding from the Ocean
Supercluster program (press release PDF here). We are also now expanding the crowdsourcing to other types of
sensors and marine weather.