Carrier Transicold adds remote cargo monitoring
18th August 2024
USA: Carrier Transicold has enhanced its BlueEdge Partner Programme with a platform that complements Carrier’s Lynx Fleet telematics for real-time remote monitoring of container refrigeration units onboard ships.
The Vessel Control Tower (VCT) platform, offered through the BluEdge reseller channel, ensures network coverage at sea, giving a ship’s crew an overview of all connected assets onboard.
This is not restricted to just Carrier Transicold units and includes other assets on board. This includes any refrigerated unit with a telematics device and other assets with a telematics device, such as refrigerated units, dry boxes and gensets.
This works in tandem with Lynx Fleet, which helps refrigerated transporters maintain compliance and accountability for perishable food and pharmaceuticals.
The VCT platform supports the ‘management by exception’ operating ethos, displaying notifications and alerts for onboard connected assets via an intuitive vessel bayplan user interface. It can also include a partner shipping line’s asset view.
This is said to minimise the need for seafarers to perform laborious and often dangerous manual reefer monitoring walks.
VCT’s technology offers full visibility of connected assets for both crew members and onshore personnel in real-time.
The platform works with cellular and long-range technology, and it transports data to the cloud without the need for APIs. It uses a cost-effective, dedicated satellite terminal and service to enable near real-time monitoring on land or at the main office.
According to Carrier, the VCT system hardware can be easily retrofitted on existing equipment and can be installed on any container vessel within four hours with minimal cabling by an authorised BluEdge Partner.
