exactEarth Ltd. provides maritime vessel data for ship tracking and maritime situational awareness solutions worldwide.
The company initially deployed an operational data processing supply chain with its First-Generation Constellation, receiving ground stations, patented decoding algorithms and advanced Big Data processing and distribution facilities. This system provides a comprehensive picture of the location of AIS equipped maritime vessels throughout the world and allows it to deliver data...
exactEarth Ltd. provides maritime vessel data for ship tracking and maritime situational awareness solutions worldwide.
The company initially deployed an operational data processing supply chain with its First-Generation Constellation, receiving ground stations, patented decoding algorithms and advanced Big Data processing and distribution facilities. This system provides a comprehensive picture of the location of AIS equipped maritime vessels throughout the world and allows it to deliver data and information services characterized by security and simplicity to large international markets.
The company’s business is built around its ability to detect AIS transmissions from space. S-AIS has grown to become an important component of global ship tracking and vessel behaviour analysis, and has contributed to many aspects of managing the environment of the world’s oceans. Its services include vessel management, border security, trade monitoring, route analysis and environmental protection.
The company delivers its AIS messages on either a recurring subscription or single payment basis, depending on the nature of the service. The company diversifies its offerings into value-added services. The company provides its raw data through its DaaS offerings, meta-data and analytics through its IaaS products and software platforms through its SaaS offering, which allows it to customize its data to suit the needs of its customers. Through this diversification of products and services, the company provides. The company primarily serves government and commercial markets interested in the movement of maritime vessels. Its government customers include defence, intelligence and security, search and rescue and other government agencies, such as space agencies. Its commercial customers operate in sectors, which include commercial fishing; business intelligence and risk management; port management; commercial offshore (oil and gas); commercial shipping; hydrographic and charting and other academic and research institutions. The company’s government customers, sold either directly or through its channel partners include the UK Space Agency, Danish Navy, Japan Coast Guard, French Navy, Indian Navy and Singapore Navy.
Products and Services
The company serve approximately 165 parties which are either direct customers or its channel partners who redistribute its products to their end customers. The company divides its products and services into three segments: Subscription Services, Data Products and Other Products and Services.
exactAIS Insight
Vessel Movement Analytics
exactAIS Insight combines a analytics engine with the most comprehensive vessel movement dataset from exactEarth to detect and report vessel movement and behaviour events.
exactView RT
exactView RT is the global, real-time S-AIS service and a significant milestone for the business. exactView RT consists of a system of more than 58 maritime satellite payloads, designed, built and operated by L3Harris.
Subscription Services
exactAIS
The company’s exactAIS product, both the original and premium version thereof, is a subscription data service providing customers with a continuous data feed which distributes AIS messages received from ships all over the globe organized using its patented detection and de-collision technology. exactAIS enhances maritime domain awareness with the highest levels of technical capability, secure distribution of information and a commitment to service quality. The company offers a premium version of its exactAIS product, where it combines its S-AIS data with terrestrial AIS data.
exactAIS Geospatial Web Services
Raw AIS messages are major in certain market segments, with existing systems and infrastructures already in place to accept and use them.
Interoperability of both systems can often be a bottleneck, particularly with respect to geospatial (mapping), hampering the integration of new data sources, such as S-AIS. exactAIS GWS translates raw AIS data into readable ship-related information and delivers this data in a more generic environment. This product caters to customers who do not have the existing systems or capabilities to store and process the large amounts of data from its raw AIS data feed. This is an example of the company’s value-added DaaS business.
exactAIS GWS is a customizable, on-demand data distribution model that allows users to access and integrate near real-time ship information into their existing geospatial mapping platforms, such as Esri and Google Earth. exactAIS GWS returns maritime vessel information on-demand to a customer in response to a query using standard web service protocols across the Internet. For example, rather than stream all AIS messages for a region to a customer system, a customer could use exactAIS GWS to return ship movement information specifically for tankers in open oceans that are travelling at speeds of less than 5 knots, which could be an indication of a vessel in distress.
exactAIS GWS is compatible with Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, which ensures compatibility with all major mapping systems. exactAIS GWS offers a web services solution that allows instant access to ship information in an on-demand machine-to-machine IT environment. Three services are delivered in this manner, such as Latest Vessel Information; Historical Vessel Positions; and Historical Vessel Tracks.
exactEarth ShipView
exactEarth ShipView is a modern web-based viewing tool that allows users to access the ship information derived from the company’s AIS data sources within a mapping environment. This is an example of one of its SaaS offerings, as its data is made available through any browser or modern mobile device with familiar map navigation tools.
ShipView provides users with online access to live ship tracking information along with three years of historical information which helps users to better understand traffic patterns and behaviours. Users are able to create custom views based on rules and groups to enhance situational awareness and improve the decision-making process.
Other features of ShipView include single line searching similar to search engines allowing users to find ships by any attribute name, such as Flag, or destination.
exactTrax
exactTrax collects encoded AIS information from small vessels equipped with an exactTrax encoded Class B AIS transponder. This service delivers data which augments the information collected by the company’s regular AIS and GWS data services, providing additional vessel behaviour insight and integration with existing operational systems, as the reports are delivered in the same recognizable formats as traditional AIS data.
exactTrax represents a solution to the growing problem of being able to track the millions of smaller vessels on the company’s oceans. exactTrax is based on Class B AIS tracking and is available via low cost battery/solarpowered transponders.
Information Services
The company provides its customers value-added IaaS offerings based on Big Data analytics and its processing of the raw AIS data being received through its exactView processing chain. These services can be broadly split into two initial categories, Positional Anomaly Services; and Vessel Behaviour Analytics.
Positional Anomaly Services detects and reports on suspicious and/or erroneous AIS location messages based on advanced digital processing of the true behaviour and movements of the vessels regardless of the abnormal information being transmitted. Such services are of particular interest to its customers in the surveillance and security markets. The company produces daily reports for its customers on such behaviours and anomalies on a subscription basis.
exactInsight is a new product that helps customers derive analytics on new and interesting aspects of ship behaviour. This extra information is stored and delivered to customers as additional knowledge. Ship rendezvous, ships entering or exiting an EEZ, and ships loitering outside of port regions are all examples of value-added information in the form of Behavioural Analytics that are being made available, on a subscription basis, to customers.
The company also has the ability to provide Voyage History and other Behavioural Reports across many market sectors and this is a rapidly growing part of its IaaS platform. Such reports range from providing information on all ships heading towards a particular location or ships transiting or encroaching a specific area of ocean.
Data Products
exactAIS Archive
The company is collecting operational AIS data from the exactAIS service, which dates back to July 5, 2010.
exactAIS Density Maps
The company has developed a simpler, summary view of the information contained in its archive to allow a wider breadth of customers to understand the potential value of such an extensive historical data set.
Other Products and Services
The company develops its ability to mine and process the S-AIS data, it also finds customers requesting specific analysis and reporting contracts.
Markets and Customers
The company primarily service three market segments: Government (excluding the U.S. Government), Commercial and U.S. Government. It sells to the Government market (excluding the U.S. Government) directly using a mix of direct sales and third-party resellers. For the commercial market segment, the company seeks to distribute its data through channel partners. Under the L3Harris Agreement, L3Harris has the exclusive right to sell AIS data products to the U.S. Government market and there are no territory restrictions for either party in respect of AIS analytics.
Government Customers and Markets (excluding U.S.)
The company’s S-AIS data service supplies global customers, ranging from national governments, to coast guards, to individual merchant fleet operators either directly or through its numerous channel partners.
Strategy
The key elements of the company’s strategy are to build upon its position as the premier supplier of S-AIS maritime data; expand its global sales channel network; expand its maritime market reach to new customers and applications not served by S-AIS; increase sales by capturing additional datasets, which will drive additional service offerings; utilize advanced data analysis capabilities in order to deliver additional value-added services; expand its addressable market beyond the maritime market and into the Internet of Things; and further invest in a customer service strategy to reinforce its reputation for quality service.
History
The company was founded in 2009. It was formerly known as COM DEV Space Systems Ltd. and changed its name to exactEarth Ltd. in 2009.
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