Rolls-Royce and Inmarsat sign ship energy management agreement

The energy management system 2.0 reduces ships’ energy consumption, helps meet  ongoing environmental targets, as well as providing  efficiency benchmarking data  against historical performance.

Marco Camporeale, Rolls-Royce, Vice President, Intelligent Asset Management Solutions, says, “monitoring ship fuel consumption and emissions is required by law in some areas and is also increasingly used in vessel selection criteria by charterers”.

This Rolls-Royce energy management software, quantifies the effect of optimising operational efficiency on costs and the true impact of enhancements as they are phased in. Moreover, using fleet Xpress communication systems, which are always on, offers the opportunity for results to be logged in real-time, maximising the verifiable reporting capability already built in to Rolls-Royce’s energy management systems software.

Another advantage is, that vessels equipped with Rolls-Royce Energy Management software, can operate within the Inmarsat Certified Application Provider Programme (CAPP), connected via Fleet Xpress and hosted on the Inmarsat Gateway platform. This enables such suitably equipped vessels to maximise their efficiency in a way that is constantly verifiable and compliant with European Union (EU) Monitoring Reporting and Verification  as well as the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plan.

Fleet Xpress combines the power of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network, the world’s only high speed, mobile and globally available broadband service from a single operator, with its ultra-reliable L band network by means of the Inmarsat Gateway. The Inmarsat Gateway, with its rich set of Application Programming Interfaces, provides application-triggered bandwidth, a managed-cyber security solution and flexible third-party subscriptions on board Fleet Xpress vessels.

The combined Rolls-Royce and Inmarsat technological capabilities will deliver proven energy management software to ship-owners with always-on connectivity.