Purpose
1.2. Automator-driven advisories for crew safety, machinery operation, route planning, and threat response.
1.3. Automate risk assessment and alert escalation based on dynamic sensor data.
1.4. Automatable reporting for regulatory compliance and historical trend analytics.
1.5. Automating notifications to relevant marine units, command hierarchy, and maintenance teams.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Time-based schedule (e.g., automate daily summary at 0600 hours).
2.3. Manual trigger by on-duty officer requesting environmental status.
2.4. Automated receipt of adverse weather warnings from external APIs.
2.5. System detects communication silence from networked units over X minutes.
Platform Variants
3.1. AWS IoT Core
• Feature/Setting: Rule Actions; automate MQTT message handling and integration with Lambda for advisories.
3.2. Microsoft Azure Event Grid
• Feature/Setting: Automate subscription to device telemetry events; push to Logic Apps for workflow automation.
3.3. Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• Feature/Setting: Automated topic publishing; trigger advisories via Cloud Functions on environmental anomalies.
3.4. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Send automated SMS alerts using Messaging API; sample config — webhook endpoint for advisories.
3.5. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Automate environmental advisory emails using Send API; config — dynamic email templates.
3.6. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automated channel notifications via Incoming Webhooks API.
3.7. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Automate posting to Teams channels via Bot Framework or Connector API.
3.8. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Incident trigger automation for advisories via Events API.
3.9. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: Automate ticket creation for environmental incidents using Table API.
3.10. Datadog
• Feature/Setting: Monitor automatable metrics, trigger workflows via Monitors API.
3.11. Grafana
• Feature/Setting: Automate dashboards/alerting using Alerts API.
3.12. Splunk
• Feature/Setting: Automate data ingestion and real-time alerting with HTTP Event Collector API.
3.13. SAP IoT
• Feature/Setting: Automator rules for automated advisories and data streaming.
3.14. IBM Watson IoT Platform
• Feature/Setting: Event automation for condition-monitoring data, rules engine.
3.15. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: Automate push advisories via Bot API.
3.16. Discord
• Feature/Setting: Automate alerts to channels via Webhook API.
3.17. Airtable
• Feature/Setting: Automate log entry/storage of advice history via REST API.
3.18. Google Sheets
• Feature/Setting: Automate updating/advisories log via Sheets API.
3.19. Oracle Cloud Monitoring
• Feature/Setting: Automate condition-based triggers and advisories via Alarms API.
3.20. PagerTree
• Feature/Setting: Automate incident alert workflow via Alert API.
Benefits
4.2. Automator reduces manual monitoring effort and operator fatigue.
4.3. Automation enables real-time escalations and audit trails for command review.
4.4. Automatable integration with existing communications reduces IT friction.
4.5. Automatedly adapts to environmental threats, supporting mission sustainment.