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    Wärtsilä Autonomy Solutions

    Enabling a safer and more sustainable future for shipping, through advanced assistance systems and autonomous solutions.

    Overview

    Autonomy Solutions are key to removing ocean trade’s infrastructural bottlenecks and achieving shipping’s zero-emission ambition. Be it automating operations for optimum energy efficiency to cut CO2 emissions, decision-support technology that reduces human error or autonomous vessels and advanced sensors that safely resolve congestion issues at the busiest ports — intelligent operation is the only way forward.

    Wärtsilä Voyage offers solutions for every node on this journey — from newbuilds to retrofits, or just automating specific parts of a ship's operation — our intelligent marine autonomy solutions aim to provide a variety of commercially viable pathways to adopt autonomous shipping solutions that increase safety and efficiency today while laying the foundation for a fully autonomous future.

    What we offer

    • Advanced Assistance systems: Technology enables the crew to take the right actions at the right time, enhancing safety and efficiency by automating specific tasks and even new ship designs.
    • Future of ship command systems: Merging the worlds of INS and IAS, we have developed a new generation of ship command systems that always enable the most efficient execution of tasks and best practices.
    • Autonomous Short Sea Shipping: Applying autonomous solutions, we are disrupting inland and coastal short distance shipping to become a safer, greener, and more efficient link in the logistic chain.
    • Navigation and DP solutions: With a lineage dating back to the 1960s, our Dynamic Positioning (DP) systems and specialised sensors technology have a long history of providing critical support and information to the bridge crew. We continue to develop, deliver, and stay at the forefront in this category.
    Our solutions

    Wärtsilä Advanced Assistance Systems

    A spectrum of solutions to enable autonomous vessel control today, where precision manoeuvring and speed adjusting decisions can be made by AI-based algorithms accurately, safely and under human supervision.
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    Wärtsilä SmartMove

    Advanced motion prediction and decision support for safer, more precise, and efficient vessel movements, even on the busiest routes.
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    Wärtsilä Smart Sensors

    For safe and precise vessel positioning and situational awareness.
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    Wärtsilä Smart Panoramic Edge Camera System

    SPECS for short, Wärtsilä Smart Panoramic Edge Camera System provides a 360° vessel view, from edge of the hull to the horizon, streamed directly to the bridge in real-time.
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    Service and maintenance

    Always with you.

    We provide 24/7 and lifecycle-long support. Whether your assets need servicing, spare parts, you have questions about collaborations or want solution quotes — our Support and Maintenance Teams are here for you.

    Stories
    Case study

    Autonomous, zero-emission barge

    MAGPIE aims to make transport within, to and from ports carbon-free by 2050. Wärtsilä Voyage is part of an international alliance — MAGPIE (sMArt Green Ports as Integrated Efficient multimodal hubs) — headed by the Port of Rotterdam Authority. For this, we are building a commercially viable autonomous intra-port inter-terminal container shuttle to address an emerging capacity bottleneck in internal container transportation. The installation will include several of our latest solutions, including  SmartMove.

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    Article

    Autonomous navigation on Crooked River

    American Courage is the biggest vessel to perform automated dock-to-dock operations. A waterway named ‘Crooked River’ by Native Americans may not seem like the natural place to test navigational technology. But while other vessel autonomy trials seek out calm and quiet stretches of open water, Great Lakes shipowner American Steamship Company (ASC) had a different idea. The result was a challenging testbed for Wärtsilä Voyage’s SmartMove and a pioneering deployment of intelligent navigation systems.

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    A stepwise approach to autonomous shipping is the wiser way forward

    Discover Smart Autonomy

    Smarter systems today are already enhancing the safety, cost-efficiency, and environmental performance of today’s vessels. In practice, this means reducing collisions or incidents, assisted docking, saving fuel through optimised speed profiles, and reducing associated emissions. At Wärtsilä Voyage, we call this ‘Smart Autonomy’ – a stepwise and commercially viable approach towards an autonomous shipping future.

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    Extend your senses with advanced situational awareness to always stay alert and aware

    A digital lookout

    Our situational awareness solutions are designed to minimise the human element of maritime risk. The smart sensor cameras and radars have long provided critical support and information to the bridge crew. Enhanced with cutting-edge technologies, these established systems are becoming smarter and opening the path to even wider application.

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