The Seatrade Asia Awards signal the beginning of Singapore Maritime Week 2010, a strategic gathering of leading maritime executives from Singapore and around the world. For the Technical Innovation Award, the independent judging panel of the Seatrade Asia Awards has selected as a finalist Stratos Dashboard for FleetBroadband, an online communications management solution that enables ship managers to derive maximum cost control, traffic control and data optimization from their usage of Inmarsat's FleetBroadband mobile broadband satellite service.
Stratos Dashboard enables ship managers to activate, deactivate, suspend, resume and make changes to their FleetBroadband SIM cards. It provides a real-time overview of all traffic usage, including completed calls and calls in progress. Stratos Dashboard puts users in complete control of all provisioning and monitoring. Stratos Dashboard for FleetBroadband has been tested and deployed on more than 3,000 vessels, including those operated by the Royal Netherlands Navy, Bernhard Schulte Group, Albacora Group, Wallem Shipmanagement, MPC Shipping and many others. With Stratos Dashboard, usage of FleetBroadband (and soon, Iridium OpenPort) can be controlled on a variety of access levels, including service group and individual officer or crew member. For controlled Internet access, Stratos Dashboard includes a firewall which can be fleetwide managed online by the shipmanager. For monitoring traffic and usage, Stratos Dashboard includes a credit control tool for: creating credit-control groups; assigning credit to SIM cards; setting alert thresholds; and sending out alert messages. Stratos Dashboard contains all traffic types, including background IP, voice, SMS, ISDN and streaming.
The latest version of Stratos Dashboard, introduced in November 2009, includes a new suspend option known as Suspend Data. This functionality can be activated manually or as part of the application's Credit Control and High Volume Usage Metering features. Stratos Dashboard users now have the option to suspend only the data portion of their service — or resume all services other than data.