R&D Projects
METIS actively coordinates and participates in a range of EU and national research and innovation projects, particularly focused on the fields of IoT and maritime technologies. These projects reflect our commitment to advancing digital transformation and sustainability within the maritime sector. For a comprehensive overview of our ongoing and completed initiatives, please refer to the project listings available at the links below.
AMSA
The purpose of the AMSA research project is to design, develop, pilot and evaluate a reliable, low-cost and energy-independent system for measuring the stress and load of metal structures, which can be installed and operated in hard-to-reach places on ships or similar transport systems loads (containers, trains, etc.).
The device will draw energy from the ship’s movements and wirelessly transmit stress and strain measurements to the control point. For this purpose, an innovative method of assessing the structural integrity of metal sheets through non-contact stress analysis and stress assessment in steels with magnetic stimulation (STEHEMON)1 will be evaluated.
At the same time, hardware and software subsystems will be designed and developed to create a prototype system, suitable for evaluation in real conditions (TRL 6).
The decarbonisation targets of the shipping sector by IMO are extremely challenging and require active measures as soon as possible. ENGIMMONIA comes with solutions that focus on the “source of emissions” to achieve the decarbonisation targets in multiple waves, according to the global introduction of alternative fuels, e.g. ammonia fuel for shipping.
To reach these ambitions and accelerate the transition towards green shipping, ENGIMMONIA relies on a flexible approach, combining a carbon-free fuel like ammonia with energy efficiency and other measures: (1) ammonia dual-fuel engines for the ship propulsion and electricity generation, (2) waste heat recovery solutions based on ORC and adsorption chiller for the production of electricity and space cooling respectively, (3) energy/heat management including any other efficiency measures and renewables, and (4) advanced operational practices including the energy management tools.
The overall objective of ENGIMMONIA is to develop and test flexible technologies at TRL over 5 that greatly reduce GHG emissions from all kind of long distance shipping and reduce the fuel consumption, and thus ensure their sustainability.
These technological innovations are combined and integrated in the ENGIMMONIA polygeneration energy hub towards the ships’ digitalisation. They are further developed, optimised, and integrated in the ship environment with the final aim to approach a complete decarbonisation of the shipping sector in the long term, while ensuring their wide acceptance and adoption by all relevant stakeholders.
Vepit
The aim of the project is the development of an integrated system of measurement, recording and analysis, in real time, of the energy footprint of ship operation. Based on MITIS’ platform of intelligent wireless maritime data collectors, a system fully adapted to the project’s objective will be developed.
The system will continuously record those parameters which, with the appropriate analysis, will capture the energy efficiency of all the ship’s energy-intensive systems in the various operating conditions.
