Markopoulos, Evangelos;
Markopoulos, Panagiotis;
Nandi, Akash;
Faraclas, John;
Leontopoulos, Chris;
Meidanis, Stavros;
Monioudis, Dimitris;
(2024)
The Impact of Digital Twins Technology in Maritime Fleet and Safety Management.
Accessibility, Assistive Technology and Digital Environments
, 121
pp. 109-119.
10.54941/ahfe1004619.
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Abstract
The integration of advanced technologies in areas such as safety, navigation, maintenance, security, supply chain management, and environmental impact can enable shipping maritime companies to enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and drive innovation in a highly competitive industry. This paper introduces the application of Digital Twins in the shipping and maritime sector, highlights its contributions to safety and fleet management with live ship monitoring on all operations and crew, and extends such applications with the integration of Virtual Reality and Artificial intelligence for immediate decision making, risk avoidance and corrective actions. Its concept is based on and follows the developments and improvements of SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea), the ISM (International Safety Management) and ISPS Codes (International Ship and Port Facility Security), and STCW (Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping). Furthermore, this work analyzes user requirements from different actors in the shipping and maritime industry (officers, ship-agents, ship owners and ship managers, insurance companies, charterers, etc.) and creates a high-level operations framework to guide the design and implementation of successful maritime digital twin projects. Lastly, it highlights the relationship between the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the digital twin adaptation strategy in the maritime and shipping sector. The paper concludes with the impact and contributions of such intelligent and interactive Digital Twins technologies in the maritime and shipping sectors from operational and environmental sustainability perspectives.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Impact of Digital Twins Technology in Maritime Fleet and Safety Management |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.54941/ahfe1004619 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004619 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Authors 2024. The authors of papers published in the AHFE Open Access Proceedings will retain full copyrights as specified by the provisions of the Creative Commons: (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Digital twins, Virtual Reality, Metaverse, Shipping, Maritime, Interactive Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > UCL School of Management |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10195661 |
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