METIS Ship Connect is a robust data acquisition system designed by METIS in order to ensure that the shipping company has continuous and reliable data from the vessel that will be used for in-depth analysis to produce valuable, predictive and actionable insights. 

The differentiating factor is that METIS Ship Connect is provided as a service which means that we do not sell just another equipment. On the contrary, we take care of the whole operation enabling you to focus on your core business.

METIS Ship Connect has received the prestigious Lloyd’s Register Type Approval Certificate for marine, offshore and industrial applications.  Our customers can be confident that they are provided with a reliable platform conforming to recognized industry quality standards, International Conventions and Lloyd’s Register strictest testing procedures.

METIS Space is our cloud-based platform that hosts all the data collected from the METIS Ship Connect system, performs the intelligent analysis and provides functionality to the user. The functionality is grouped into three (3) Service Packs that enable shipping companies to roll out their digital transformation at their own pace according to their special needs. More info about METIS Space can be found here  More info about the available METIS Service Packs can be found here

First of all, we need to ensure that we have enough data of good quality and significant frequency from the vessel. Therefore we need to install METIS Ship Connect, our robust data acquisition system on board. The exact configuration of the METIS Ship Connect system depends on the kind of analysis you want to get as well on the equipment which is installed onboard. We are proud to have the most extensive compatibility list. More info about the compatible equipment can be found here.  

The next step is to choose the kind of analysis and the actual services you want to get from METIS. All the services are grouped in 3 Service Packs that enable shipping companies to deploy METIS at their own pace. Therefore you will have to select the service pack that suits best the needs of your company.  More info about the services included in each Service Pack can be found here.

Additionally, we will need some info such as the vessel particulars, shop tests, sea trials, etc. 

Each METIS Agent performs a specific task to serve a scope. Some examples are:
• The investigation of an abnormal vessel’s operation behavior
• The prediction of a future vessel’s operation behavior
• The prediction of a future effect of an external factor on the vessel’s operation
• The alert regarding an abnormal vessel’s operation behavior
• The alert regarding the influence of an external factor in the vessel’s operation
• The notification regarding the change of the vessel’s operation
• The scheduling of maintenance operations
• The planning of vessel’s operations and voyages
• The monitoring of vessel’s operations
• The analysis of vessel’s operations
• The optimization of vessel operations and performance

Some indicative notifications are:
Operation Status Event (start/stop vessel)
Bad weather Event (when a vessel is entering calm water conditions and bad water conditions accordingly)
The Customer can also get automated full report such as Noon Reports (including information on the operation of the vessels and the diagrams from AIS, wind, wave, swell, air dashboards) and Main Engine analysis reports (consisting all the diagrams of the M/E analysis dashboard).

Everyone within the company can be registered as a user and operate the system based on his/her specific needs. However, user, role or authority level access policies can be implemented if needed.

The METIS Development team constantly works on APIs to interconnect METIS Space with our customers’ ERP, CMS, Noon Reporting System and encapsulate their data.

METIS can also be trained to parse PDF, DOC, Excel and Text files or e-mail messages and extract data for further analysis like: crew reports, bunker analysis reports, oil analysis reports, charter party agreements, etc.

Furthermore, users can set values to any parameter through the Agents, like: instructed speed, oil price, destination port, ETA etc.

Within METIS Space, sophisticated predictive models powered by learning machines are implemented, for each vessel, to estimate many parameters (i.e. M/E or D/Gs fuel flow, M/E power, T/C RPM, scavenge air pressure, M/E sfoc, vessel speed, the M/E power based on the measured quantities, etc.). These learning machines are constantly trained and self-corrected/optimized to improve the estimation.