Smart Stateroom: Enhancing the Operational Efficiency of a Cruise Ship Cabin through Sensors
Laitinen, Maiju (2024)
Laitinen, Maiju
2024
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The cruise industry is undergoing significant growth in the 2020s, attracting first-time and experience-seeking travelers in addition to the established customer base. At the same time, new ships being built are required to meet increasingly stringent climate change mitigation criteria to ensure the ship’s sustainable lifecycle for the upcoming decades. This requires cruise lines to adopt smart and innovative technologies throughout the ship, especially in the staterooms, to reduce energy consumption while enhancing the passenger experience.
In the thesis, the concept of a smart stateroom was examined, focusing on multisensors that enable automated features. The goal was to find solutions to optimize the stateroom operations in an energy-efficient and customer-focused way. The work consisted of two parts: identifying the needs that determine the required functions in the stateroom and exploring potential multisensor models to address these requirements. As a result of the study, a product matrix was created to align the multisensors’ features with the identified needs.
The topic was approached from the perspective of building automation, sensor technologies, and cruise ship cabin automation. The needs of passengers and ship hotel operations were examined through a literature review, synthesizing studies on smart accommodation, guest experience, and operational efficiency in hotels and cruise ships. The findings were compared to insights from the shipbuilding and cruise industries to draw conclusions on the most important functions.
The results of the study suggested that the stateroom operations can be supported through monitoring of occupancy, CO2 concentration, temperature, humidity, indoor air quality, illuminance, and noise level. Most of the required parameters can be measured with one multisensor. For a more customized experience, the system would also need to be completed with other smart solutions, together with biometric or wearable technology to detect individual parameters.
The study provides valuable insights for future cabin automation, contributing to the concept of a smart and sustainable stateroom by promoting multifunctional, upgradable solutions that minimize the need for multiple components and reduce the overall carbon footprint.
In the thesis, the concept of a smart stateroom was examined, focusing on multisensors that enable automated features. The goal was to find solutions to optimize the stateroom operations in an energy-efficient and customer-focused way. The work consisted of two parts: identifying the needs that determine the required functions in the stateroom and exploring potential multisensor models to address these requirements. As a result of the study, a product matrix was created to align the multisensors’ features with the identified needs.
The topic was approached from the perspective of building automation, sensor technologies, and cruise ship cabin automation. The needs of passengers and ship hotel operations were examined through a literature review, synthesizing studies on smart accommodation, guest experience, and operational efficiency in hotels and cruise ships. The findings were compared to insights from the shipbuilding and cruise industries to draw conclusions on the most important functions.
The results of the study suggested that the stateroom operations can be supported through monitoring of occupancy, CO2 concentration, temperature, humidity, indoor air quality, illuminance, and noise level. Most of the required parameters can be measured with one multisensor. For a more customized experience, the system would also need to be completed with other smart solutions, together with biometric or wearable technology to detect individual parameters.
The study provides valuable insights for future cabin automation, contributing to the concept of a smart and sustainable stateroom by promoting multifunctional, upgradable solutions that minimize the need for multiple components and reduce the overall carbon footprint.