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Meteomatics Data Enhances ABS Wavesight's Navigational Safety and Sustainable Shipping
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Machine Learning
- Functional Applications - Fleet Management Systems (FMS)
Applicable Industries
- Education
- Plastics
Applicable Functions
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Fleet Management
- Transportation Simulation
Services
- Data Science Services
The Challenge
ABS Wavesight, a maritime software as a service (SaaS) company, was seeking to improve its risk management platform, ABS My Digital Fleet™, by integrating high-resolution historical and forecast weather data. The company aimed to provide actionable insights to its users to help them understand and lower fuel consumption, improve bunker costs, and reduce carbon intensity levels. Additionally, ABS Wavesight wanted to highlight the potential structural impacts from weather exposure during a ship’s voyage to better understand and mitigate risk. The challenge was to find a suitable partner that could provide accurate and hyperlocal weather data that could be seamlessly integrated into their existing platform.
About The Customer
ABS Wavesight is an ABS Affiliate maritime software as a service (SaaS) company. It is dedicated to helping shipowners and operators streamline compliance while maintaining competitive, more efficient, and sustainable operations. ABS Wavesight's ABS My Digital Fleet™ is a customizable risk management platform that integrates data to provide real-time insights for driving sustainable operations and reducing operational risks. The ABS My Digital Fleet Alliance Program nurtures an ecosystem of industry trusted intelligence and technology providers enabling integrated insights for clients on one unified platform.
The Solution
ABS Wavesight partnered with Meteomatics to add on-demand, high-resolution historical and forecast weather data to its ABS My Digital Fleet™ risk management platform. Meteomatics' powerful hyperlocal weather data and high accuracy forecasts were the perfect match for ABS Wavesight's needs. When combined with ABS’ machine learning capabilities on ABS My Digital Fleet, the integration of Meteomatics' data was a game changer for the maritime industry in its journey towards digitalization and decarbonization. The high-quality weather data provided by Meteomatics could be immediately and easily integrated into existing systems, allowing any AI or machine learning to be trained directly and efficiently. This led to noticeable improvements and efficiency gains in many kinds of operations.
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