Autonomous Ships

By Oskar Levander

Oskar Levander joined Rolls-Royce in 2012 as VP of Innovation, Engineering & Technology, Marine. Before this, he spent most of his career at Wärtsilä, where he held various roles, such as Director, Concept Design, Marine Lifecycle Solutions. Oskar has been working mostly with the development of new ship designs, machinery and propulsion concepts for various ship types and emerging marine technologies. He is also driving the development of ship intelligence and the introduction of remote controlled unmanned ships. In 201,1 he was included in Lloyd's List 2011 One Hundred Most Influential People in the Shipping Industry.

Remote controlled and autonomous ships will revolutionize the landscape of ship design and operations. Smarter ships and the Internet of Things will allow the creation of new services, which will support existing players to make their businesses more efficient, and will enable new players, with new business models, to enter the marine sector with the similar potentially disruptive effects that Uber, Spotify, and Airbnb have had in other industries.

What Rolls-Royce calls “ship intelligence,”—a portfolio of products and services, comprising equipment and system health monitoring, optimization and decision support, and remote and autonomous operations – will allow ship owners and operators to transform their operations by harnessing the power of big data.

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