01 Where the data goes, device by device
Usage by device, by cabin and by type of use, including what is consumed with nobody using it: updates, automatic backups and high-resolution video. "Who ate the 200 GB?" stops being an argument and becomes a report.
02 Know before the invoice arrives
Email alerts when usage reaches the percentages you choose, sent to whoever you decide: skipper, chief engineer or the office. Thresholds above 100% warn you once you are already into additional usage.
03 Pause the contract in the off season
On recurring plans, pausing works in whole months against an annual allowance of days: you plan the whole lay-up, not odd weeks. It is executed against the operator, shows as a credit on the next invoice, and the terminal remains yours.
04 Speed by cabin, and the bridge always online
Speed assigned per user or per cabin, shared fairly when several people are connected. Navigation, operations email and the phone system keep their line while someone streams in 4K, and the captain can cut crew Wi-Fi during a watch.
05 Split traffic across the links you already have
The on-board router groups devices by zone — bridge, crew, guests — and decides what goes out over satellite and what over 4G, all configured remotely. What it does not do today: switch on its own when a link drops; that is decided in advance.
06 Where each vessel is, with no extra hardware
The terminal reports its own position, so the fleet map works without installing anything else and keeps the positions of the last few days. It is the centre of a coverage cell, not a GPS fix: no heading, no speed. For that, and for alert zones, you need AIS, which is a separate product.
07 One pool of data for the whole fleet
On fleets with several contracts, the monthly allowance is merged into a shared pool: a vessel that sails little lends its headroom to one that sails a lot. It needs a pool-type account that we set up and maintain with the operator; you see it in the dashboard.
08 Cybersecurity on board, not just a Wi-Fi password
Every vessel runs its own firewall and a private VPN tunnel back to our systems: management traffic never crosses the open internet. The network is split into zones — bridge and operations, crew, guests — each with its own rules: an infected laptop in a cabin stays in that cabin.
09 What can be opened on board, and when
The same firewall blocks whole categories — adult content, gambling, social media, downloads — or leaves only the essentials open, per zone, per device and per time slot. And it cannot be bypassed by changing the DNS on a phone: name resolution is forced through ours.