World’s first IoT data platform at sea

We recognise that with the power of digitalisation comes the exponential rise in the volume of data. The challenge for ship owners is how to manage this data with the limitations of being at sea? To transform the collection, transfer, storage and analysis of data, we have developed the industry’s first supplier agnostic IoT data platform, Fleet Data. Enabling you to get to the facts faster than ever and driving performance-based decisions, we are fundamentally changing the future of fleet management, optimizing vessels for maximum efficiency.

Fearlessly innovating we never stop extending possibilities. With our next generation of high-speed connectivity, we’re opening up a new world of digitalisation at sea. Powering a revolutionary ecosystem of cutting-edge applications designed specifically to meet the needs of our customers. Whether you want to streamline vessel operations, optimise your route planning or just phone home, we are there for you, always. Delivering a truly global service you can rely on voyage after voyage.

Fleet Data IoT

An ecosystem of applications at your fingertips

Unlike any other IoT platform, Fleet Data is supplier and sensor agnostic and has a rapidly growing application provider ecosystem which means that operators no longer need to invest in individual supplier solutions.

Available for existing Fleet Xpress and FleetBroadband customers, Fleet Data offers three scalable plans. Choose which package suits the digital needs of your vessel today, knowing you can upgrade as your data needs to develop.

Fleet Data, your complete end-to-end solution for data collection, automation, and ship-to-shore communications, driving business intelligence and decision making.

Fleet Data is Inmarsat’s innovative IoT platform with inclusive bandwidth, delivering full visibility of a vessel or fleet’s data anywhere and anytime. This ship-to-shore data automation solution allows ship operators to overcome the challenge of gathering and accessing data generated across their fleet. Collecting data from onboard sensors, Fleet Data pre-processes it, and uploads it via the Inmarsat network to a secure central (cloud-based) database equipped with a dashboard and Application Program Interface (API). Data can then be accessed, modified and fully customized for further analysis. Fleet Data is an enabler to improve operational efficiency, increase performance and benchmark data across an entire fleet or a single vessel.

Fleet Data is powered by Inmarsat’s connectivity hardware modules. Developed using our decades of technology expertise and supported by our worldwide service network for installation and maintenance, these hardware modules provide the basic building blocks of a cost-efficient vessel IoT infrastructure. Remote Data Interface modules pick up analog, digital or serial sensor data throughout the ship for onboard data collection, while the Vessel Remote Server module connects to the vessel’s existing network/communication infrastructure for data transfer to shore.

1. COLLECT

An Internet-of-Things (IoT) infrastructure collects data from onboard sensors and/or Voyage Data Recorder

2. SELECT

 Data is pre-processed on board and can be managed and customized from shore

3. TRANSFER

Reports are transferred to shore via the Inmarsat network, without additional airtime costs

4. STORE

Data is stored on a Inmarsat server (Inmarsat Cloud solution)

5. EXTRACT

Data is extracted from the Fleet Data server via an API

6. ANALYSE

User creates customised views in Fleet Data dashboard or may use data in third-party applications to:

• Improve operational efficiency

• Increase performance

• Benchmark data

Fleet Xpress

Powering the maritime ecosystem

Harnessing the power of the connected maritime ecosystem

The unprecedented demand for data to accelerate operational efficiency, decarbonise and enhance crew welfare, combined with rapid advances in global mobile connectivity, are driving the pace of digitalisation across the maritime sector. Over 70% of shipping businesses have embarked on their digital transformation journey. The connected ecosystem sits at the heart of the data revolution.

Discover the power of Fleet Xpress

Fleet Xpress delivers for evolving business. It brings together the best of Inmarsat's connectivity solutions - unrivalled flexibility to consolidate and scale IT requirements with a combination of satellite connectivity solutions – and takes place over a trusted endpoint security network.

Fleet Xpress is built to to deliver control over your connectivity ecosystem. Making it easier to control spending, control data usage, control digitalisation strategy. Giving clear view of what connectivity means to your business today and tomorrow.

Built on Fleet Edge

The future proof maritime edge platform designed to deliver Inmarsat ORCHESTRA

Fleet Xpress provides access to a wide portfolio of Inmarsat connectivity services through our Fleet Edge platform. Fleet Edge unlocks the power of edge computing capability for always-on communications. Fully secure, it enables seamless delivery of new features, updates and bug fixes on a vessel via over-the-air software upgrades. Fleet Edge comes with a rich set of standardised assurance data through shore side APIs and edge interfaces, making the integration with partner smartboxes easy​.

Capabilities that grow alongside your requirements

Fleet Xpress is a uniquely flexible solution. It leverages the world’s most advanced satellite constellation, to link your connectivity ecosystem and deliver a best-in-class experience to crew. 

Available in multiple iterations, so you can find the Fleet Xpress package that’s right for your business.

Modular Fleet Xpress allows you to easily upgrade bandwidth as you adopt applications at a pace that suits you, from email and basic office applications, to IoT-powered solutions and emerging technologies to enhance your data, insights and analysis.

Flexibility

Fleet Xpress is about choice and scalability. Made available in a range of packages, it is simple to see which packages align with your business and your objectives.

Control your spend

Spend on what you use, and nothing else - by selecting a package with speed and data that suits your needs today. 

Control your growth

If your requirements begin to change, your upgrade route is clear and predictable. Our incrementally designed packages mean you can foresee any change in your package price.

Powered by the world’s most advanced mobile satellite network

Shipping companies need guaranteed seamless global coverage for fast and secure data transfer - especially at busy ports, straits and shipping canals where reliable connectivity matters most. Fleet Xpress operates as a fully managed service, powered by our Ka-band Global Xpress network, enabling customers to increase their bandwidth as their digital ecosystem evolves.  

Seamless, global, Ka-band spot beam coverage enables consistent, stable, uninterrupted quality of service, with no drop out at satellite handover while unique, steerable beams layer additional, high-speed capacity where maritime customers need it most. FleetBroadband back-up assures 99.9% network availability adherence - with no unwanted bill shocks.

Boost operational efficiency

Benefits for operations:

Reliable bandwidth to support onboard IoT applications and enable ground-breaking new digital services

Consolidated, cloud-based storage and management of fleet data

Real-time, data-led support for telemetry, enhanced route planning, scheduling and fuel efficiency

IoT-enabled engine and equipment inspection, remote diagnostics, emissions monitoring, fault detection and condition-based maintenance

Ensures compliance with decarbonisation regulations and vessel ratings

Single, connected control center capable of real-time oversight for a dispersed fleet: reduced need for specialists onboard

Ecosystem of trusted industry-leading application partners for fast, secure and simple-to-use analytics and intelligence

Technology agnostic: connect to any IoT provider without additional hardware costs

Simplify and standardize I.T.

Benefits for IT and technology teams:

Improve productivity with a flexible, scalable, onboard IT environment

Step up and standardize applications across ship and shore – no more ‘made for maritime’ compromises

Seamlessly interoperate cloud-based technologies with terrestrial infrastructure: ship as an office in any location.

Greater control and visibility over all fleet communications

Remote upgrade and centralized application management

Secure remote access to troubleshoot onboard networks

Unified Threat Management, multi-layered endpoint security and crew awareness training module

Self-service optionality to enable all teams

Dedicated bandwidth channels

Using synthetic virtual networks, Fleet Xpress delivers your connection in dedicated ‘pipelines’, to ensure a best-in-class experience. Each essential services receives its own dedicated route to the user. The bandwidth you use outside of those essential services, also receives its own pipeline, to ensure crew usage for business and leisure, is of the highest standard.

Fleet Connect

Extend the reach of your application at sea by having your own dedicated connection to thousands of vessels in real-time across the world’s oceans.

As a Certified Application Provider, Fleet Connect gives you access to tens of thousands of vessels and seafarers across the world’s oceans with your own dedicated bandwidth. A secure API provides direct access to the vessel which isn’t constrained or interrupted by crew or operational traffic. This allows you to remotely install, manage and update your applications onboard remotely from the comfort of your office. It means that you can optimise the delivery of your service while your users are thousands of miles away in the middle of the ocean.

With Fleet Connect, Inmarsat separates bandwidth usage, giving you an independent internet connection that won’t affect business-critical vessel operations or crew communication. Giving you uninterrupted access, so you can be sure your application is always available.

We remove the need for any costly development of communication hardware just to run your application. You can simply use our existing communication hardware that’s already installed on over 45,000 vessels around the world.

For applications that specifically require large amounts of data, Fleet Connect works seamlessly with our award-winning Fleet Xpress service, offering the highest connection speeds available at sea. Combine this with Fleet Edge, our advanced edge cloud computing platform, and you can remotely access, transfer and analyze data quickly. Remote management also means you can diagnose queries instantly and keep your customers happy.

Defining a new era of connectivity at sea, Fleet Connect used in combination with Fleet Xpress is enabling the digitalisation of shipping. The transformational service is trusted by thousands of vessels across the globe – from merchant ships to fishing vessels, offshore support vessels to superyachts. Extend the reach of your solution to the ends of the ocean, knowing you’ll never compromise on your service level commitment.

Inmarsat ELERA

Global, narrowband network inspiring new possibilities and powering the fastest L-band speeds for IoT, safety and mission-critical services.

Enabling the future

Inmarsat ELERA enables the next generation of pioneering technologies that will connect and sustain our world – from autonomous transport and UAVs, to IoT, ocean monitoring and supporting greener energy – ELERA is a springboard for innovation.

A catalyst for innovation

On land, at sea and in the air - Inmarsat ELERA is driving innovation around the world.

The future of sustainable fishing

Tomorrow’s fishing industry can be fairer for all. ELERA powers advanced vessel monitoring and catch reporting systems — so illegal fishing can be tracked and fish stocks maintained.

The future of mission-critical communications

ELERA’S unrivalled availability and reliability has never been more important, providing real-time data both on and off the ship whenever it’s needed most.

The future of connectivity for unmanned surface vehicle

L-band Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (LAISR) provides SATCOM relay system for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) operating in rough seas – enabled by ELERA’S highly resilient, weather tolerant, always-on network.

The future of yachting

Leaving it all behind doesn’t have to mean being disconnected. ELERA keeps yachters in touch – with each other, loved ones, and the authorities — wherever their journey takes them.

Inmarsat ORCHESTRA will be the first of its kind. A unique, global, multi-dimensional, dynamic mesh network that will redefine connectivity at scale with the highest capacity for mobility worldwide and at hot spots, as well as the fastest average speeds and the lowest average latency of any network, planned or in existence.

In the largest ever transformation of Inmarsat’s market-leading services, ORCHESTRA will be a seamless configuration of our ELERA (L-band) and Global Xpress (Ka-band) networks with terrestrial 5G, targeted low earth orbit (LEO) capacity, and dynamic mesh technologies, to create a single advanced solution for global mobility.

This revolutionary layered approach is designed to meet the accelerating bandwidth requirements of more diverse, demanding and ever more widely adopted applications in the commercial and government mobility markets. By drawing on the unique capabilities of each component, it will deliver high performance connectivity everywhere, while eliminating the longstanding industry-wide challenge of congestion at high demand hot spots, like busy ports, airports, sea canals and flight corridors, for good.

ORCHESTRA will integrate Inmarsat’s existing geosynchronous (GEO) networks with terrestrial 5G and a new, targeted LEO satellite deployment.

ELERA: provides a critical layer of always-on connectivity with all-weather resilience.

Global Xpress: delivers reliable, high-speed, global coverage with security and full redundancy.

Terrestrial 5G: adds ultra-high capacity at specific high demand hot spots, such as busy ports, airports, straits and sea canals.

LEO: a small, targeted constellation of 150-175 satellites layering additional high capacity over further high demand areas.

This layered approach is supplemented by a ‘dynamic mesh network’, which allows individual terminals to act as nodes to route traffic to and from other terminals. The ability to extend the range of direct links to others beyond that range, like ships beyond the reach of 5G for example, will bring a powerful new dimension to networking.

Industrial IoT: Secure, device-neutral, private networks for large scale IoT deployments that can integrate, manage and monitor disparate sensors and devices via a single cloud environment.

Smart Cruise Ships: High speed, low latency passenger, crew and operational connectivity solutions for ferries and cruise ships, enabled through global satcom and on-board 5G networks.

Ripping It Marine offers knowledgeable and professional assistance with all your marine electronic solutions. We boost your confidence on the water with highest quality products and experienced installation along with our extended support services that go above and beyond. Contact us to learn the benefits of outfitting your vessel with innovative marine technology solutions from Inmarsat.