Green Boat Monitoring for Sea Digitalization

The recent updates into the European guidelines 2023/2776 of 12th of October 2023 concerning the greenhouse effect's emissions monitoring of maritime transportation sector set the requirement of every ship docking into the port UE ports to be fully monitored according to emissions issue. In order to accomplish to this task is mandatory that ships/ports develop proper monitoring systems to be conscious in real time of actual emissions situation. This work suggests a characteristic monitoring system applied to a green boat that by means of proper sensors, manages to accomplish several monitoring tasks. All recorded data will be available in real time by means of a Cloud architecture accessible from every point in the globe. The Cloud architecture refers to the design and structure of the software, hardware, networking, and storage components that enable Cloud Computing services along with the new challenging at the Edge services. This architecture allows for scalability, flexibility, and on-demand access to computing resources, making it suitable for various applications and workloads like in monitoring for sea digitalization. The gathered data will be useful for further onshore in Cloud post-processing activities in order to check possible ship's emissions violations into the ports or for additional studies for improving the awareness of a certain area in order to reach the goal of sea digitalization. Future challenges may exploit the monitoring boat experience for making an autonomous process of harvesting data without the requirement of an onboard pilot.