Vessel Settings → Connectors links the yacht to third-party sensor and data providers, so running hours arrive automatically instead of being typed in. In the cloud app, the tab appears only on yachts whose licence includes Maintenance. Connecting, disconnecting and mapping need the Vessel Settings → Edit permission.
Marine Insights
The provider available on this tab is Marine Insights, which pulls live hour counters and sensor data from installed hardware. Its card shows Connected or Not connected.
To connect, enter the Vessel ID the provider gave you for this yacht and click Connect. Nauticare checks the ID with the provider straight away. If the ID is unknown, returns no data, is already connected to another vessel, or the provider cannot be reached, the card shows the reason. Once connected, the Vessel ID can no longer be edited and the button changes to Disconnect.
If a later sync fails, the card shows Last sync failed with the reason.
Disconnect stops the updates and removes the yacht's data point mapping. Component hours already recorded stay as they are. If you connect again, you map the data points again.
Data point mapping
Connecting alone updates nothing. Each incoming data point must first be linked to a component. The card shows how many of the provider's running-hours data points are mapped (for example 3 of 5 data points mapped). Manage Mapping opens the mapping screen. Without edit rights the button reads View Mapping.
The mapping screen lists the yacht's maintenance components that track their own hours under Nauticare components, and a data point picker for each under Marine Insights data points. Each data point shows its latest reading in hours. Pick a data point for each component, then click Save Mapping to save them all at once. Back to Connectors or Cancel leaves without saving.
Things worth knowing:
- When you open the screen and some components are unmapped, Nauticare looks at the incoming data and suggests matches, each labelled High, Medium or Low confidence. Suggestions only fill rows that are not mapped yet, and nothing is saved until you click Save Mapping. If no suggestion can be made, or your company has used up its monthly AI allowance, you map the rows by hand.
- One data point can feed several components, but each component takes only one. A data point already used elsewhere is marked Assigned in the list but can still be chosen.
- Components with the same name are told apart by the equipment path shown under them.
- If the provider stops reporting a mapped data point, it stays in the row with (no longer reported) instead of disappearing.
- Components that do not track their own hours are not listed.
Saving the mapping sets the hours of newly mapped components straight away. After that, Nauticare checks Marine Insights every hour. When a mapped data point reports a new value, its latest reading, rounded down to whole hours, becomes the component's hours, even if it is lower than before.
On a yacht run by the on-board app
Connectors are set up on board, not in the cloud. The cloud shows a Managed on board notice and a read-only view of the connector and its mapping.
For the running hours a connector feeds, see the Maintenance section.