End-to-end wireless data

Together, onboard wireless technology innovator ScanReach and KVH Watch Cloud Connect will enable end-to-end wireless connectivity and advanced data analytics for vessels.

“We are thrilled to partner with ScanReach and be able to offer shipowners, OEMs and service technicians a totally sensor to cloud wireless connectivity solution for vessel performance using data from all the equipment onboard today’s complex vessels,” said Sven Brooks, senior director of IoT business development for KVH.

Wireless data

ScanReach’s onboard wireless connectivity technology enables data to travel anywhere on the vessel without cabling; combined with KVH Watch Cloud Connect, the data will travel to the cloud for useful data analysis to improve vessel performance.

“This collaboration between ScanReach and KVH Watch Cloud Connect means that for the first time, the commercial maritime industry can work with two tech leaders in the market and make one end-to-end wireless solution all the way from onboard sensors and data sources up to the cloud and to the different analysts,” says Jacob Grieg Eide, chief business development officer for ScanReach.

The ability to transfer data wirelessly through a steel vessel is one more example of the digitalisation that is transforming the maritime industry.

KVH recently expanded its suite of KVH Watch maritime IoT solutions with Cloud Connect, a service designed to address the complexity of managing data from hundreds of onboard sensors with a comprehensive package containing data source definitions, data mappings and associated dashboards.

An onboard Cloud Connect Edge Server aggregates and processes data from vessel sensors and provides a containerised, hybrid cloud architecture to enable downsampling, data storage and data access for analysis, cloud-based data reporting and dynamic visualisations.

Cloud Connect is part of the KVH Watch maritime IoT suite, which includes the ability to perform on-demand Remote Expert Interventions using video, voice, or text via KVH’s global HTS network.