MARSS team celebrates successful testing of its MOBtronic man overboard detection solution

While there are currently more than 300 cruise ships in operation, only a tiny fraction are equipped with a man overboard detection system. Monaco-headquartered defense technology specialist MARSS is looking to change this with MOBtronic, an automated man-overboard system for the instant detection, classification and rescue support of a human falling overboard a vessel or maritime structure.

MARSS has now completed the second phase of ISO 21195:2020 certification tests on its solution, In 2010, the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act (CVSSA) was signed into U.S. federal law, requiring cruise ships to install systems to detect, or capture images of, man overboard incidents. ISO21195:2020 sets the standards for what detection systems should be designed to achieve and how they should perform.

Specifically, ISO 21195:2020 requires that acceptable man overboard detection systems should have a minimum 95% detection probability and generate no more than one false alarm per day on average. Having completed Phase 1 (a documentation and design test) in early 2023, MARSS has now also completed Phase 2 that involved the testing of a detection sensor.