Technological breakthrough for smarter anchoring
AnchorGuardian offers a unique innovative solution to bring safety to anchoring. Combined with our proprietary and state-of the-art sensors we are moving anchoring from reactive to proactive.
We recently attended the successful Seawork exhibition in Southampton’s Mayflower Park, and it was a pleasure to welcome to our stand from Swiss Ocean Tech Suzy Chisholm and Thomas Frizlen.
Anchoring is a routine and age-old operation, built on mastery, experience and sensitivity. It is as frequent as mooring or loading and unloading cargo. The anchoring process – from laying to lifting the anchor – is critical for the safety of crew and passengers as well as Sealife below. It is a dangerous operation that requires specific skills and continuous attention.
Even when ship’s crew work diligently to lay anchor in the most secure way possible, dragging can happen. Immediately recognizing anchor drag can avoid dangerous collisions and even grounding.
AnchorGuardian offers a new dimension of safety at sea by minimizing the risk of anchor dragging, providing predictions and immediate alarms.
The disruptive, patented technology offers safety during anchoring by identifying in real-time dangerous anchor drag, independent of GPS and any movement of the ship.
Additionally, AnchorGuardian predicts the anchor hold with early warnings and provides essential information while laying the anchor, while at anchor and when lifting the anchor.
For the first time ever, using sensor fusion and sophisticated algorithms, the technology can build a stable dataset of the anchor’s relative and absolute position providing reliable information over the entire anchoring procedure.
AnchorGuardian offers an entire range of intelligent data while anchoring…when you need it.