Keeping devices on a ship to the relevant ship time / time zone has long been an issue for cruise ships. The team at theICEway has developed a solution to solve this key problem: tzChromar*.
When sailing, cruise ships have issues with showing the correct time zone on their on-board devices. Traditionally, on-board IT management have adjusted device time manually to allow crew members and guests to have an accurate ship time.
tzChromar plots the ship’s current position and allows for time zone changes to be scheduled in advance or applied instantly. The crew member with time zone admin privileges will set the required time zone with a couple of clicks and all devices will update automatically. Crucially, tzChromar enables cruise lines to have a fleet-wide overview of all ships.
* Patent pending, application number 2019937.8
Our tzChromar solution was deployed on vessels from a major cruise line throughout 2022. These cruise ships experienced daily time zone changes, which affected thousands of onboard devices. The device types were a mixture of Android, Windows and Linux. With tzChromar, all device time changes were made with the greatest of ease.
In total, hundreds of thousands of changes were executed in seamless fashion. Historically, these changes would have entailed our partners' onboard IT crews spending thousands of hours making them. Not so with tzChromar. Instead, the process is entirely streamlined, leaving the crew free to focus upon other important tasks.
In 2023, there are further installations planned and the forecast is for this solution to help more cruise lines save time and money. As this amazing industry continues to recover and rebuild in the wake of the pandemic, theICEway is happy to be able to help. Making the most of your internal resources is vitally important. Ironically, that is something we have learnt over nearly two decades of providing outsourced IT services and solutions.
Time zone device changes
Time zone changes
Cruise ships experience this
Devices per cruise ship
Time zone changes occur every 0.8 days at sea
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