Norway-based maritime software firm Shipnet has launched Helix AI, an update to its existing Helix application designed to deliver new data analysis capabilities.
Helix, launched in 2024, enables integration and analysis of data from various company departments such as safety and procurement. The company will now integrate AI models into the application to use that data to provide validations, recommendations and optimisations to users.
The company notes that the launch of the product follows an extensive period of validation and testing, and it now believes it has reached a critical mass of historic data to be able to deploy accurate models.
“Helix itself is really a data warehouse and the machine learning part of the project which sits with Shipnet helps us develop insights we can feed back to our customers to allow them to really drive and optimise their work,” said Niall Jack, Director of Product Management, ShipNet.
“The key differentiator for ‘AI’ here is that it allows us to provide these validations and optimisations in real time – there are no extensive algorithms and lookups, nor extensive rule sets that need to be configured by customers – we use their historic behaviours to keep the future actions in line.”
“With Helix, we can completely change the way that we have offered services in the past and adopt new technology as it emerges, hyper-customise the service and insight that customers can receive – all whilst reducing the amount of work they need to do. As the capability of AI tooling improves, I expect we will begin to see natural language querying of Helix data – the ability to ask Helix to provide a summary of safety related incidents across the fleet for example, and you will get a structured report – complete with graphs, diagrams and quotations – all generated in seconds by AI.”
