• Target

OVERHEAT Project aims to revolutionize digital fire management solutions for containerships by offering a comprehensive, real-time approach that prioritizes safety, environmental protection, and regulatory compliance. Through a combination of cutting-edge technology and safety culture assessments, this initiative seeks to usher in a new era of fire prevention and management in maritime transport.

  • Project at a glance

Maritime Transport is crucial for global trade, moving almost all goods worldwide. containerships face a significant fire safety issue due to the lack of fixed fire detection above the weather deck. This can lead to catastrophic losses both on land and at sea. the overheat project aims to provide cutting-edge digital fire management solutions that prioritize safety, environmental protection, and regulatory compliance.

  • Expected inpact

Safe, seamless, smart, inclusive, resilient, climate neutral and sustainable mobility systems for people and goods thanks to user-centric technologies and services including digital technologies and advanced satellite navigation services.

  • Implementation Strategies
  • Validation Activities: Initial evaluation through simulated environments to test the effectiveness of the proposed solutions.
  • Demonstration Activities: Real-world implementation to showcase the feasibility and benefits of the innovative fire management strategies.

Use Cases Development: Identification, description, and detailing of specific scenarios to demonstrate the practical application of the solutions.

  • Expected Outcomes
  1. Navigational accidents including vessel collisions and groundings, damage to vessels and boats from debris (in particular lost containers), and harm to marine mammals are significantly reduced.
  2. There is systematic understanding of the causes of navigational accidents and high standards are established for their prevention.
  3. Automated systems reducing the human factor as a cause of navigational accidents are introduced on a relevant scale and deployed in particular on vessels operating in sensitive areas where navigational accidents and incidents would have a particular negative impact (coastal zones, marine protected areas).
  4. Digital solutions (“smart ships”) that help in the prevention of accidents are developed and integrated in the overall vessel architecture and in traffic control systems. A link to automated and autonomous shipping solutions under development is established.
  5. Containership fires can be systematically prevented, and when occurring they will be detected swiftly and tackled safely without recourse to external intervention.
  6. The serious risk to crews, coastal and port communities from the toxic combustion products of containership fires is mitigated.
  7. The frequency of containership fires is reduced in a statistically proven way.
  • DITS in OVERHEAT

In the OVERHEAT project, DITS is involved in various work packages. In addition to the mandatory tasks required for all partners, DITS is actively engaged in the following:

  • WP2 – “State of the Art, Best Practices, and Use Case Definitions”
    Extensive work has been carried out in this work package to analyze the current state of fire suppression on ships and examine particularly destructive incidents involving container ships over the past 20 years.
  • WP3 – “Knowledge Base, Navigation Safety Occurrence Design, and Classification”
    In this work package, DITS is the leading partner and has successfully completed two significant milestones outlined in the Grant Agreement:
    • Task 3.1 – Methods Definition, Processes, and Safety Goals
    • Task 3.2 – Hazard Identification and Evaluation
  • WP5 – “Digital Solution Requirements and Data Sharing”
    The objectives of this work package are:
    1. To identify the necessary requirements for a suitable solution.
    2. To quantify these requirements and establish relevant metrics.
    3. To propose test specifications for evaluating how the proposed solution meets these requirements.
  • WP7 – “Simulation and Demonstration Activities”
    DITS is actively participating in system testing, and very soon, we will see the first results of the past year’s work in its practical application.
  • Note for Readers

This EU Project is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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