Radio Holland at Europort: The next 100

Radio Holland is well-known in the maritime industry as global NavCom and Service & Maintenance provider. Its network of more than 80 offices along the global shipping routes is unrivalled. After celebrating its unique 100th anniversary on 6 December 2016, Radio Holland focusses on ‘the next 100 years’. While Radio Holland’s core business is to offer solutions that help customers run smarter, more profitable businesses with less downtime and lower operational expenditures, Radio Holland used its knowhow in NavCom to expand expertise in connected fields of technology solutions’: IT on Board, Connectivity and Remote monitoring. Radio Holland will show these innovative fields of expertise at Europort, (stand no 1124, Hall 1).

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New Furuno FAR-2xx8 Series Radar

Radio Holland will show innovative Navigation & Communication solutions and introduces the new innovative Furuno FAR-2xx8 Series Radar at Europort. Radio Holland will also show the Furuno Voyager Bridge system, Cobham VSAT and Iridium equipment.

To illustrate Radio Holland’s Europort ‘story’: Radio Holland has concluded over 6000 active service agreements with ship owners all over the world, offering peace of mind and reducing cost of ownership for the owner. A variety of service agreement formats match specific customer requirements, such as outsourcing equipment maintenance, planning mandatory inspections, annual equipment health checks, compliance of GMDSS equipment and remote monitoring. Radio Holland showcases service agreement options and examples at Europort. Via the innovative online 24/7 service portal, Radio Holland offers quick service and support.

For the Australia Antarctic Supply Research vessel built by Damen (DSNS), Radio Holland will deliver a large IT infrastructure consisting of central IT cabinets and various switching cabinets located at strategic positions on the vessel. The network will be used as the infrastructure for various systems on board such as Entertainment, CCTV, Video Conferencing, IP Telephony and Narrow Casting. A large compute and storage array will be used to store scientific data and process this data on board. The IT network is designed to be resilient and operate under tough conditions and is equipped with a remote monitoring service by Radio Holland, overseeing the health of the network. This three year newbuild project is exemplary for the fact that Radio Holland provides various solutions for demanding and complex IT configurations and functionality and will be showcased on Radio Holland’s booth.

Remote monitoring of equipment and analysis of (performance) data is vital to decrease operational costs. By monitoring essential equipment, problems can be identified in time and if possible solved remotely. Radio Holland’s strategy regarding remote monitoring is focused on decreasing the total cost of ownership by providing insight into vessel operations and planning action in time. Goal is optimized uptime and vessel availability. Radio Holland monitors the vessel performance via a 24/7 remote support centre and provides monitoring dashboards which are (online) available 24/7, showing information of various equipment and enabling the owner to extract a wide variety of data for analysis and optimization of operations. The ‘Radio Holland Remote Box’, is an innovative software platform that realizes remote support from anywhere in the world, even when the ship’s main Internet provider is offline. The dashboards will be shown live at Europort.