In line with EU strategic goals for safe, resilient transport and smart mobility services, HS4U leverage on the opportunities of Big Data to effectively control infection on large passenger ships. The initiative focuses on delivering a collaborative digital framework (CDF) that enables real -time interaction between humans (crew and passengers) and IoT edge devices (sensors, actuators) on the ship, leveraging on co-robotics concepts and Artificial Intelligence mechanisms and models. New smart technologies and products as well as stream handling of big data on INTRA platform providing interoperability of functional, design and training process using ML and DL algorithms will be implemented.

The CDF has been designed to understand the complex heterogeneous parameters processed, such as type of incidents, sewage analytics sensor data, state of the art off-the-shelf solutions, in comparison to targets set by legislation and medical indicators that affect the response procedure in case of emergency. As a result, the HS4U CDF will support planning scenarios, enable rapid reconfiguration of response plans, control actuators (e.g., automatic doors, sewage system cleaning), and optimize resource management, ensuring passenger safety. Additionally, the framework will integrate intelligent systemic algorithms for training purposes.

This vision is being realized through Work Package 4: Digital Tools Creation, which aims to develop: a) a user interface for the CDF, b) scalable data ingestion pipelines to collect real-time inputs, with tools for cleaning and transforming diverse data types and c) an interoperability framework for seamless interaction between the ship’s IoT devices and actuators and the AI models within the CDF.

Up to Month 24, the initial design of the software systems has been completed, along with the acquisition and setup of cloud infrastructure to host the software components. The collection of user requirements has also been successfully finalized. The efforts of the contributing technical partners are now focused on the delivery of the 1st version of the CDF.