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Why High-Frequency Data Alone Isn't Enough — and How Onboard Unlocks the Full Picture

The industry is waking up to the power of High-Frequency Data (HFD). The sentiment is clear: traditional noon reports are outdated, insufficient for real-time decision-making, and prone to error. HFD is seen as the future.

But we believe it’s critical for vessel owners to look beyond that future.
Because investing in HFD alone solves one challenge — but quickly reveals the next:

  • Missed operational context
  • Incomplete insights

At Onboard, we don’t just offer HFD.
We combine the best of both worlds: real-time high-frequency sensor data collected through our Maritime IoT Gateway, and structured manual input from the crew via our Ship App running on that same Gateway. This creates a single, unified solution — with fully customizable registrations, real-time synchronization, and full openness to this combined dataset through our Vessel API.

Why?

Because not everything can be measured by sensors. Critical operational knowledge still lives with the crew. This includes:

  • Voyage and operational events
  • Technical checks and machinery events
  • Environmental and compliance logging
  • Safety, security, and drills

If you miss that context, you're only seeing half the picture.
You might know you used 25 metric tons of fuel today — but for what?

The Result?

A seamlessly combined dataset that gives you unmatched visibility across operations, performance, and compliance.

You can analyze fuel burned by operational activity, per cargo unit, per terminal, per vessel — or across your entire fleet. You can trace the root causes of delays, reduce non-productive time, justify demurrage, support performance claims, enable technical diagnosis, and identify training needs.

It's only limited by what you choose to measure and register — and with Onboard, there are no limits.

And it doesn’t stop at data collection.
With Onboard, you can act on this information immediately by communicating directly with the crew, closing the loop between insight and action in real time.

Ready to go beyond data collection?

Let’s talk about how Onboard can give you the complete operational picture — and the tools to act on it.

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