A marina manager with forty boats already has the answer to almost any question in front of them. Finding it is the work: open a boat, read the voltages, check whether the charger held overnight, look at the open tasks, then do it again for the next boat.
At METSTRADE 2026 — 17–19 November at RAI Amsterdam, Estonian Pavilion, Hall 3, stand 03.342 — we will show something that shortens that: you ask, in ordinary words, and the answer comes back from your own fleet.
A chat panel in the corner of the HUB
There is now a small button in the bottom-right corner of every page in VoltSense HUB. Open it and ask what you would ask a colleague:
- “Which boats need attention this morning?”
- “When did Aurora last charge?”
- “What maintenance is still open across the yard?”
It looks the answer up while you wait — you can see which part of your data it is reading — and it replies in your own language. Follow-up questions work: “and last week?” knows what you were talking about. The conversation is not stored anywhere, and it starts fresh when you reload the page.
It reads. It does not touch anything.
This is worth being precise about, because it is the first question every professional user asks.
The assistant cannot create or edit a maintenance task, change a boat, alter a setting or make a payment. That is not a switch we left off — the interface it reads through has no way to write at all. There is nothing to disable and nothing to misconfigure.
The one thing it may do is offer. If you explain a finding — “those voltage drops are just the engines starting” — it can offer to note that against the boat, and nothing is recorded unless you press the button. What gets saved is the same note you could make yourself in AI Guard, it is visible on the boat, and you can undo it there with one click. From the next analysis on, AI Guard takes it into account.
It tells you when it cannot tell
An assistant that sounds confident about everything is worse than no assistant. Most of the work behind this feature went into the opposite behaviour.
A concrete example. Most boats have no wired shore-power sensor, so whether a boat is “on shore power” has to be worked out from the house bank sitting at charging voltage — and a running engine or a solar panel produces exactly the same picture. So on those boats the HUB says “charging” and not “shore power”, and the assistant says the same. A boat under way looks identical to a boat someone unplugged, and neither we nor the assistant will pretend otherwise.
The same discipline runs through the rest of it: every claim about something that happened carries a date, the measurement behind a verdict is quoted so you can disagree with it, and when the data does not carry the answer the reply says so instead of guessing. It can still be wrong — check anything you would act on, exactly as you would with a colleague's summary.
Or use your own assistant
If you already work with Claude or ChatGPT, you can connect VoltSense to it directly. You sign in with the account you already have, choose which fleet may be read, and approve the list of permissions — no key to copy anywhere, and your password never reaches the assistant. Setup takes about two minutes, and you can revoke it at any time from your account.
The two routes see slightly different things, and the reason is simply who pays for the answers. The panel inside the HUB covers the boats you have AI Guard on, because it is part of that licence. Your own assistant covers every boat you own — you are running it on your own subscription there, so there is nothing for us to charge per boat.
Your data is not training anything
The model does not learn from your boats or your questions. Its knowledge is fixed and every conversation starts from nothing.
What does improve over time is what you confirm about a boat — the chemistry of its banks, how they are wired, that the batteries were replaced in May. That is stored in your own account, used only for your own boat, and reversible at any time.
Come and try it
The fastest way to judge a feature like this is to ask it something awkward about a fleet you know. We will have it running on the stand.
METSTRADE 2026 · 17–19 November 2026 · RAI Amsterdam · Estonian Pavilion, Hall 3, stand 03.342
Bring a hard question.