Maritime Security Operations

An award-winning information system designed to support maritime security operations.

Oversee is a one-stop shop, providing unprecedented situational awareness through data fusion, risk anticipation and machine-learning techniques. Oversee’s easy-to-use interface has been designed to facilitate efficient and collaborative decision-making, fast situational responses and cost-effective resource optimisation.


Oversee helps maritime authorities in implementing their safety, security, and environmental protection responsibilities effectively and efficiently.


Oversee provides software solutions for the following key maritime and defence areas:

  • Search and Rescue
  • Law Enforcement
  • Environmental Monitoring and Protection
  • Coastal Surveillance
  • NAVTEX


Oversee has also won the ‘Best Technical Innovation’ award at SAR Europe on multiple occasions, with the jury stating: “Oversee dramatically improves responses to SAR incidents, providing a very intuitive system that enables more efficient and effective responses to SAR alerts. The system is a huge leap forward in the management of maritime SAR incidents.”

Search & Rescue

Oversee Search and Rescue is a high-end information system for Maritime Rescue Coordination Centres (MRCC), compliant with IAMSAR guidelines and SAR best practice.


Designed in close cooperation with maritime professionals, Oversee Search and Rescue is an award-winning software system, recognised at SAR Europe 2015 with the ‘Best Technical Innovation’ award, for the second year running.


How can Oversee help you?


Improve situational awareness:

  • Live traffic information is integrated from multiple sources to provide an integrated picture, including GMDSS distress alerts, weather information and resource position and status.
  • Dashboards provide the ‘at-a-glance’ status of the coordination centre and of the operational readiness of available resources.
  • Alarms and risk algorithms provide early warning of potential distress situations.


Improve incident response times:

  • Incoming GMDSS alerts result not only in the identification of the vessel that triggered the alert to be displayed, but also their full details and map position.
  • Emergency telephone calls are automatically logged, and the caller ID captured, with the call location immediately displayed on the map.
  • Integrated vessels and contacts databases allow operators to quickly search for and identify a particular vessel or contact and initiate communications immediately.
  • Closest available resources with the appropriate capabilities to respond to an incident can be immediately identified and tasked straight from the map, e.g. via a paging system.
  • Integrated search planning tools.


Improve risk awareness and management:

  • Statistical reports help managers identify risk factors and behaviour, to develop preventive strategies.
  • Risk algorithms provide an early warning that a vessel may be overdue.
  • Alarms can be manually configured to trigger when dangerous conditions and risk behaviours are detected by the system.


Optimise costs:

  • A “swiss army knife” information system natively performs the function of many different legacy systems in a fully integrated way, optimising operator performance.
  • Statistical reports help managers identify geographic hotspots and seasonal spikes in the occurrence of incidents in order to optimise future staff allocation.
  • Greater digitisation of the coordination centre eliminates or greatly reduces the need for paper records.


Better co-ordination between operations centres and resources:

  • A single access point for all information, for all authorised roles in the organisation.
  • Remote, mobile access supported by an intuitive web-based user interface.
  • SITREPs, dashboards, log entries and other records can easily by exported as PDF files or emailed directly.


Improve inter-agency cooperation:

  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and a high-throughput data distribution system facilitates interoperability and information exchange between agencies.


Monitor efficiency and effectiveness:

  • The business intelligence and reporting module provides interactive dashboards that managers can use to explore data and perform statistical analysis.
  • Performance can be tracked against KPIs to identify areas that need improvement.


Tailored to the needs of your organisation:

  • The modular set of features can be selected and configured to bespokely suit the particular needs of your organisation.
Law Enforcement

Oversee Law Enforcement is a state-of-the-art information system for government agencies with responsibilities for security and the enforcement of national and international regulations at sea.


Developed in close cooperation with maritime safety, security and law enforcement specialists, the system is designed to support operations at command centres and on-board patrol and inspection vessels tasked with enforcing regulations and combatting illicit activities such as illegal fishing, drug trafficking, illegal immigration and piracy.


How can Oversee help you?


Improve situational awareness:

  • Live traffic information is integrated into a single platform from multiple sources, including a vessels database that displays licensing and inspection histories, the location and status of resources, fishing areas and subareas and weather information.
  • Configurable alarms provide immediate warnings of vessels displaying suspicious behaviour, entering specified jurisdiction boundaries or restricted areas, matching blacklists and more.
  • Dashboards provide an ‘at-a-glance’ overview of the operations centre and of the operational readiness of available resources.
  • Mobile applications for patrol vessels and inspection teams.


Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of law enforcement actions:

  • Integrated vessels database allows operators to quickly search for and identify a particular vessel and retrieve or record all relevant vessel details.
  • Historic records of inspections and incidents relating to a particular vessel and its licensing information can quickly be retrieved.
  • An integrated contacts database allows operators to quickly retrieve or record all details regarding a ship’s owner, operator, master and other on-board personnel.
  • Plan patrols and inspections at sea, based on the inspection history of the vessels displayed on the maritime picture.
  • Plan patrols and inspections at sea, based on the fishing effort and history of inspection results by geographic location and seasonality, based on information from statistical reports.
  • Immediately identify the closest available resources with the appropriate capabilities to respond to incidents and task them straight from the map.


Improve voluntary compliance by developing deterrence and preventative measures:

  • Statistical reports help managers understand causes of non-compliance and the profile of offenders, assisting the development of preventative actions, such as better guidance and education and improved legislation.
  • Statistical reports help managers identify geographic and seasonal distribution patterns in fishing effort in order to better plan patrols and other deterrence activities.


Optimise costs:

  • Statistical reports help managers identify geographic hotspots and seasonal spikes in regulated activity and in the occurrence of sightings, inspections or incidents, in order to optimise resource deployment and staff allocation.
  • The “swiss army knife” information system natively performs the function of many different legacy systems in a fully-integrated way, optimising operator performance.
  • Digitisation of the operations centre eliminates or greatly reduces the need for paper records.


Better co-ordination between operations centres and resources:

  • Single access point for all information, for all authorised roles in the organisation.
  • Remote, mobile access supported by an intuitive web-based user interface.
  • Application for boarding and inspection teams is natively mobile, supporting online and offline use.
  • Inspection forms, incident files, dashboards, SITREPs and other records can be accessed on screen by authorised users and can also be exported as PDF files or sent by email for distribution to external parties.


Improve inter-agency cooperation:

  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and a high-throughput data distribution system facilitates interoperability and information exchange between agencies.


Monitor efficiency and effectiveness:

  • The business intelligence and reporting module provides interactive dashboards that managers can use to explore data and perform statistical analysis.
  • Performance can be tracked against KPIs to identify areas that need improvement.


Tailored to the needs of your organisation:

  • The modular set of features can be selected and configured to bespokely suit the particular needs of your organisation.
Environmental Protection and Monitoring

Oversee Environmental Monitoring and Protection is an information system that provides support for decision-makers tasked with preventing, detecting and responding to pollution incidents at sea.


Oversee Environmental Protection and Monitoring is capable of monitoring the geographic parameters of off-shore infrastructures by integrating sensing platforms such as in-situ buoys, autonomous vehicles and remote-sensing satellite technologies to present a real-time, integrated picture of maritime environmental measures.


How can Oversee help you?


Improve situational awareness and incident response times:

  • An integrated maritime picture brings together environmental and traffic-based information from multiple sources in a single information system, facilitating the monitoring of and response to pollution incidents.
  • Integrated traffic information, drift models and the ability to replay conditions from the past allow agencies to correlate pollution incidents with perpetrators and provide evidence for legal prosecutions.
  • Incident files record all relevant details on pollution incidents, including the initial report, the type of incident, the types and quantity of pollutants, characteristics of the vessels involved and more, useful for statistical analysis and to generate the reports required to fulfil national and international obligations.
  • Integration with in-situ sensing equipment provides early warning of pollution incidents.
  • Configurable alarms provide immediate warning of vessels displaying suspect behaviour, entering specified jurisdiction boundaries and sensitive or restricted areas.
  • The integrated vessels database allows operators to quickly search for and identify a particular vessel and retrieve or record all relevant vessel details.
  • The integrated contacts database allows operators to quickly retrieve or record all details regarding a ship’s owner, operator and master.
  • Dashboards provide an ‘at-a-glance’ status of both the operations centre and available resources.


Improve risk awareness and management:

  • Statistical reports help managers to understand the causes of incidents and the profile of offenders, in order to develop preventative actions, such as better guidance and education and improved legislation.
  • Statistical reports help managers identify risk factors and behaviour, in order to develop preventive strategies.
  • Alarms can be manually configured to trigger when suspicious or illegal behaviour is detected by the system.


Optimise costs:

  • The “swiss army knife” information system natively performs the function of many different legacy systems in a fully integrated way, optimising operational performance.
  • Greater digitisation of the coordination centre eliminates or greatly reduces the need for paper records.


Improve inter-agency cooperation:

  • The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the high-throughput data distribution system facilitate interoperability and information exchange between agencies.


Monitor efficiency and effectiveness:

  • The business intelligence and reporting module provides interactive dashboards that managers can use to explore data and perform statistical analysis.
  • Performance can be tracked against KPIs to identify areas that need improvement.


Tailored to the needs of your organisation:

  • The modular set of features can be selected and configured to bespokely suit the particular needs of your organisation.
Coastal Surveillance

Oversee Coastal Surveillance is an information system providing support for decision-makers tasked with coastal surveillance duties.


Developed in close co-operation with maritime safety, security and law enforcement specialists, the system is designed to ensure full control over an entire coastline area by providing the accurate detection, tracking, and identification of small and high-speed targets that enter the area under surveillance.


How can Oversee help you?


Improve situational awareness:

  • Live traffic information from multiple sources is integrated into a single platform, including a vessels database that displays licensing and inspection histories, the location and status of resources, port areas and subareas, and weather information.
  • Configurable alarms provide immediate warnings of vessels displaying suspicious behaviour, entering specified jurisdiction boundaries or restricted areas, matching blacklists, and more.
  • Dashboards provide an ‘at-a-glance’ overview of the operations centre and of the operational readiness of available resources.
  • Integration with coastal radars for the detection, tracking, and identification of small and high-speed targets, or any other target, that enter the coastal zone under surveillance.
  • Integration with electro-optical devices to enable visual observation of the area under surveillance.


Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of coastal surveillance actions:

  • The integrated vessels database allows operators to quickly search for and identify a particular vessel and retrieve or record all relevant vessel details.
  • An integrated contacts database allows operators to quickly retrieve or record all details regarding coastal surveillance sites.
  • Immediately identify the closest available resources with the appropriate capabilities to respond to incidents and assign them straight from the map view.


Improve voluntary compliance by developing deterrence and preventative measures:

  • Statistical reports help managers understand causes of non-compliance and the profile of offenders, assisting the development of preventative actions, such as better guidance and education alongside improved legislation.
  • Statistical reports help managers identify geographic and seasonal distribution patterns in fishing incidents in order to better plan patrols and other deterrence activities.


Optimise costs:

  • Statistical reports help managers identify geographic hotspots and seasonal spikes in regulated activity and in the occurrence of sightings, inspections or incidents, in order to optimise resource deployment and staff allocation.
  • The “Swiss army knife” information system natively performs the function of many different legacy systems in a fully integrated way, optimising operator performance.
  • Digitisation of the operations centre eliminates or greatly reduces the need for paper records.


  • Better co-ordination between operations centres and resources:
  • Single access point for all information, for all authorised roles in the organisation.
  • Remote, mobile access supported by an intuitive web-based user interface.
  • Application for boarding and inspection teams is natively mobile, supporting online and offline use.
  • Inspection forms, incident files, dashboards, SITREPs and other records can be accessed on screen by authorised users and can also be exported as PDF files or sent by email for distribution to external parties.


Improve inter-agency cooperation:

  • Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and a high-throughput data distribution system facilitates interoperability and information exchange between agencies.


Monitor efficiency and effectiveness:

  • The business intelligence and reporting module provides interactive dashboards that managers can use to explore data and perform statistical analysis.
  • Performance can be tracked against KPIs to identify areas needing improvement.


Tailored to the needs of your organisation:

  • The modular set of features can be selected and configured to allow for a bespoke fit to the needs of your organisation.
NAVTEX

Oversee NAVTEX is a state-of-the-art information system, part of the Oversee family of products, designed specifically for organisations charged with promulgating and broadcasting maritime safety information through the International NAVTEX system.


Oversee NAVTEX was designed and developed in cooperation with NAVTEX authorities, with the goal of improving the management and co-ordination of NAVTEX services operating any number of stations or transmitters.


How can Oversee help you?


Improve Maritime Safety Information transmitted:

  • Manage messages from a single NAVTEX station to an entire national NAVTEX service comprised of multiple stations operating.
  • The system automatically sorts planned transmissions in queues for each scheduled time slot based on message priority.
  • Operators can resolve conflicts by making adjustments to transmission queues for the following 24 hours.
  • Operators are alerted to conflicts with scheduled transmissions, such as advance warning of time overruns or notification of broadcast errors.
  • Improve co-ordination between stations with a single access point for all information, for all stations, for all authorised roles in the organisation.
  • Remote, mobile access supported by an intuitive, web-based user interface.


Optimise costs:

  • This solution natively performs the function of many different legacy systems in a fully integrated way, optimising operational performance.
  • Greater digitisation of the coordination centre eliminates or greatly reduces the need for paper records.


Improve inter-agency cooperation:

  • The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and the high-throughput data distribution system facilitate interoperability and information exchange between agencies.


Monitor efficiency and effectiveness:

  • The business intelligence and reporting module provides interactive dashboards that managers can use to explore data and perform statistical analysis.
  • Performance can be tracked against KPIs to identify areas that need improvement.


Tailored to the needs of your organisation:

  • The modular set of features can be selected and configured to allow for a bespoke fit to the needs of your organisation.

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