Maritime bilge discharge compliance so tight even the Coast Guard will be impressed
BilgeAlert cross-references onboard oily water separator logs, AIS vessel position data, and port state control inspection records to flag potential MARPOL violations before they become six-figure fines. It geofences no-discharge zones in real time and generates audit-ready compliance reports in under 30 seconds. The maritime industry runs on paperwork and fear — BilgeAlert handles both.
- Real-time geofencing against MARPOL Annex I special area boundaries and ECA zones
- Correlates OWS flow rate data across 47 vessel sensor profiles simultaneously
- Native integration with EQUASIS vessel registry and Paris MOU inspection databases
- Audit-ready PDF and XML export that PSC inspectors actually accept without argument
- Violation probability scoring before you even leave port
MarineTraffic AIS, EQUASIS, VesselFinder, Paris MOU CIC database, Tokyo MOU InfoSystem, Lloyd's Register API, OceanSync, PortStateIQ, FleetTrackr, ClassNK Digital, HarbourBase, NautiCompliance
BilgeAlert runs as a set of independently deployable microservices orchestrated via Docker Compose, with each service owning its slice of the compliance pipeline — ingestion, correlation, scoring, and report generation. AIS position streams are persisted in MongoDB for its flexible document model and the sheer volume of timestamped coordinate records the system processes. The geofencing engine runs hot in Redis as the permanent zone boundary store, keeping lookup latency under 4ms at full vessel load. Inter-service communication is handled over a lightweight internal message bus I wrote myself because nothing off the shelf was fast enough.
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