Patent ID: 8594866

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a sensor system configured to monitor time, position, heading, speed, motions, environmental conditions, and performance data for a vessel associated with the apparatus, and generate data about the vessel including a flex, a stress, a strain, an orientation, a rotation, and an acceleration of the vessel and an environment around the vessel; a computer system connected to the sensor system, wherein the computer system is configured to receive the data from the sensor system, generate vessel information about the data, and send the vessel information to a remote location; a satellite transceiver connected to the computer system, wherein the satellite transceiver is configured to send the vessel information to and receive other information from the remote location; an automatic identification system; wherein the data further includes shipboard conditions, encryption information for uploading or downloading large files at a next opportunity with a suitable connection, emergency SOS calls, personal messages from crew members, reports of extreme weather in a local environment, reports of suspicious activity by other vessels in the environment, and crew-adjusted routing information; and wherein the shipboard conditions include motions, accelerations, a tilt, roll, a yaw, a pitch, a platform movement, an engine performance, a fuel flow, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and local environmental conditions.