ClassNK grants “Innovation Endorsement for Products & Solutions” to
“Smart Ship © Hub”

Singapore: 05th March 2024
Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (Class NK) recognizes Smart Ship Hub’s (SSH) multi-tenant digital platform with proprietary algorithms for its effective High Frequency data collection, Data Quality management and a broad range of actionable insights based on Condition Monitoring, Predictive Diagnostics of onboard machinery. Smart Ship © Hub is described as an easy & quick to deploy remote vessel management platform for safety, reliability and operational efficiencies.
Class NK certification highlights SSH platform for its “Innovative Products & Solutions” offering in the digital space.
Low cost real time high frequency sensor data from the vessel together with video feeds, legacy data and vessel’s historical data is fed through the proprietary algorithms for:
• Accurate machinery condition & health
• Pattern recognition to determine Remaining Usable Life of a machinery (RUL)
• Predictive diagnostics across vessel performance KPI’s
• Voyage Performance management with weather routing, ETA, Charter party compliance
• Accurate assessment of Hull thickness, Propeller pitching
• Objective assessment of Vessel health index.
Smart Ship© Hub guides Ship owners and managers to meet the requirements for “Digital Smart Ship Notation” as outlined in “Guidelines for Digital Smart Ships”. Vessels equipped with Smart Ship © Hub Digital platform will be able to get the “Digital Smart Ship Notation” by Class NK with necessary drawing approvals and on-site surveys.
On contacting, Capt Shailesh Bhambhani of Smart Ship © Hub, for what the endorsement means for them:
Capt Bhambhani, says it is a huge achievement for our team to get the endorsement from Class NK. The endorsement is quite extensive, covering a huge range of product & services offered to the vessel technical and commercial team. It took months of sharing detailed documents, data exchange and a very extensive system testing to get the endorsement.
The endorsement, pushes us to keep innovating and always be ahead of the curve in maritime digital innovation.
On further enquiring about the potential of the platform and its usages, Capt Bhambhani says the industry is at the cusp of change, the true potential of digitalisation can only be achieved once the data is understood. At the core of all products and services of Smart Ship © Hub is data quality, data standardisation and data validation. We provide Ship owners and managers “actionable insights” on their data, thereby helping achieve operational efficiencies and dollar value savings.

Smart Ship Benefits for Vessel Owners

Enhanced Credibility: “Digital Smart Ship Notation” by ClassNK will enhance vessel’s profile.

Increased Customer Trust: The notation instils confidence across the maritime value chain and emphasizes commitment towards safer, reliable and efficient vessel with low carbon footprint.

Efficient & Compliant vessel: “Smart Ship Hub digital platformSmart Ship Notation” ensures significant cost savings through smart performance alerts, anomaly detection and agile decision making by shore and vessels alike.
Smart Ship Hub digital platform covers entire range of Vessel performance, Voyage Performance, Condition Monitoring, Predictive Diagnostics, Machinery Health Index and range of additional services all under single platform.
3 of the top 5 Owners and Operators globally have partnered with Smart Ship Hub platform for their portfolio of vessels under them. While decarbonization initiatives become critical in the industry, EU ETS catching up prominence in 2024: the focus is on data, intelligence and actionable insights.

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