Background
A ship is a small city that moves: it has its own power generation, water, climate control, logistics and security, all of it operated by systems from different suppliers that rarely share data. The same fragmentation that keeps buildings and cities from being managed on facts keeps vessels from it too.
The Connected Ship established a sensor network and data-sharing infrastructure on board, combining smart city technology with maritime systems to improve energy efficiency, enable predictive maintenance and strengthen cybersecurity, and to prepare vessels for exchanging data with smart ports.