SADIT-MAR COURSE-4: Transformative Technologies Shaping the Next Century of the Maritime Sector

SADIT-MAR lecture titled “Transformative Technologies Shaping the Next Century of the Maritime Sector” by Dr. Jeom-Kee Paik has been published, exploring Digital Healthcare Engineering (DHE)—a life-cycle, real-time, intelligent framework that integrates sensing, digital twins, secure data transmission, and AI diagnostics. This innovative approach aims to facilitate predictive health management, enhance safety, promote decarbonization, and create resilient, human-centered maritime systems.

Key topics covered in the lecture include

• The maritime sector is presented as the backbone of global civilization, with long-life sociotechnical systems operating under safety, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness pillars now under decarbonization pressure and systemic transformation
• A historical pattern of disruptive technological leaps from steam to diesel, automation, and digitalization is framed as leading to another system-level transformation rather than incremental change
• Rapid digitalization is described as generating extensive sensing and data streams, yet a paradox of more data but less understanding emerges when digital twins remain static and disconnected from operational decision-making
• A paradigm shift from inspection after failure toward healthcare, predictive engineering, and integrated ecosystems of structures, machinery, digital systems, human operators, and the environment is positioned as necessary
• Converging crises, including climate change, aging fleets, human factors, and cyber-physical system risks, are characterized as a systemic challenge requiring life cycle systems solutions and human-centered engineering
• Transformative technologies such as sensors, physics-informed AI, living digital twins, secure satellite communication, blockchain-secured data transmission, autonomy, and energy sovereign ships are described as converging into intelligent cyber-physical maritime systems supported by performance-based safety assurance
• Digital healthcare engineering is defined as a five-module life cycle framework integrating real-time multimodal sensing, secure data transmission, digital twin simulation, AI-enhanced diagnostics, predictive health management, regulatory transformation, and system doctor-oriented engineering education