Abstract
Modern vessels are monitored by Onboard Internet of Things (IoT), sensors and data acquisition (DAQ), to observe ship performance and navigation conditions. Such IoT may create various shipping industrial challenges under large-scale data handling situations. These large-scale data handling issues are often categorized as “Big Data” challenges and this chapter discusses various solutions to overcome such challenges. That consists of a data-handling framework with various data analytics under onboard IoT. The basis for such data analytics is under data driven models presented and developed with engine-propeller combinator diagrams of vessels. The respective results on data analytics of data classification, sensor faults detection, data compression and expansion, integrity verification and regression, and visualization and decision support, are presented along the proposed data handling framework of a selected vessel. Finally, the results are useful for energy efficiency and system reliability applications of shipping discussed.