SailRouter

Idea

All-in-one solution for reducing fuel consumption of merchant ships.

Introduction

Founded in 2016,SailRouter is a desktop and cloud application that helps ship owners to reduce both fuel consumption and operational costs by using two features – weather routing and ship parameter optimization. The main goal of SailRouter is to connect engine performance with ship hydrodynamics by using inertial sensor to measure ship motions in order to recognize sea waves during navigation.

Innovation

SailRouter calculates the optimum route relative to sea state, engine curve and ship hydrodynamics including trim. SailRouter gathers data during navigation, analyses them and learns about ship characteristics in order to improve ship hydrodynamics and to report user about real ship performance.

Impact

Mandić explains: “Since we recognized that in the maritime industry end users (usually people onboard) don’t like to use new software to optimize routes, we started to develop an automatic support system where software will automatically collect and analyze data during navigation and show to the end user only important analytics results .