Why OCTOPUS-ONBOARD?

The success of OCTOPUS-ONBOARD is based on the unique combination of ship, weather, and navigation data to obtain a consistent picture of the ship's performance. The co-operation with our clients and solution partners has resulted in the today's OCTOPUS system, which truly eases the main tasks of the officer on watch: safe navigation, route or operation planning and damage avoidance. OCTOPUS-ONBOARD contributes to the safety and economy of shipping in many aspects:

  • OCTOPUS-ONBOARD is a monitoring system providing the immediate overview of the ship's actual and attainable performance in waves.
  • OCTOPUS-ONBOARD is a forecast system providing vessel performance predictions, weather windows, downtime warnings, and simulation features.
  • OCTOPUS-ONBOARD is a routing system providing detailed voyage evaluations and optimizations taking into account the ship-specific behavior in waves.
  • OCTOPUS-ONBOARD is the officer on watch's objective assistant to safe navigation and resonance avoidance.
Information integrity is vital
The officer on watch must be able to rely on the information that is presented by OCTOPUS. OCTOPUS uses a huge amount of information from different sources. A widely acknowledged benefit of the OCTOPUS system is the reduction of raw data which is achieved after the combination, processing and intelligent selection of the most critical elements. Only the most informative data is shown to the watch. Consistency of the information is guaranteed in OCTOPUS by continuously checking the integrity of the system components, the data ranges, and the actuality of the data.