AkzoNobel has launched its new iPad App Intertrac Vision Lite, a lite version of the company’s big data hull performance prediction tool.
According to AkzoNobel Intertrac Vision Lite provides a new avenue to engage ship owners and operators in the hull coating selection process, [ds_preview]and enables them to explore the role of big data in supporting hull performance predictions and purchasing decisions.
In May 2017 at Nor Shipping, the company launched a new customer experience called ‘Digital Voyage’. Powered by Big Data, AkzoNobel’s suite of digital tools to provide owners and operators with instant access to the information they need to make smarter decisions, from efficiency monitoring to purchasing optimization. This integrated suite of digital tools included Intertrac Perform, a tool that measures and monitors hull performance data, and validates these against the predictions made by Intertrac Vision, using metrics that comply with the ISO 19030 standard on hull and propeller performance monitoring.
Part of AkzoNobel’s Digital Voyage, Intertrac Vision Lite has been developed to showcase key features of the full Intertrac Vision tool. Users can input data covering a sample selection of vessel types, fouling routes and generic hull coating choices to create different coatings scenarios, and then compare variations in the effect on power requirements, fuel costs, and CO2 emissions. It also includes tips and commentary to explain the methodology that underpins Intertrac Vision, which includes the full range of parameters, and can be used to make comprehensive economic and environmental decisions.
3.5 billion data points
Intertrac Vision was launched in 2015. It combines data on the fouling challenges of different trading routes data with hydrodynamic analysis to predict hull performance. The software uses 3.5 billion data points, incorporating hundreds of thousands of datasets to ensure the highest degree of accuracy, AkzoNobel informs.
