News / MOL opts for AI-driven 'early fire detection' system for new car-carrers

Felicity Ace on fire last year

MOL is to equip several of its newbuild ro-ro vessels with an AI-driven system for early fire detection to stem the increasing epidemic of fires destroying car-carriers.

Israeli company Captain’s Eye claims to have developed an AI system that can detect fires by interpreting abnormal images caught by cameras installed throughout a vessel, operating 24/7.

A cloud of smoke could be detected before it reached a conventional smoke detector, it says, allowing for earlier warnings and faster response.

MOL said the system would ...