Episode 143: Jon Gahagan, Sentinel Asset Protection | Rethinking Maritime Access Control
What if one of shipping’s next opportunities for digitalization is hiding in plain sight?
Jon Gahagan, founder of Sentinel Asset Protection and winner of The Captain’s Table Posidonia competition, joins Chris to discuss how a simple question about remotely monitoring a ship’s gangway evolved into a much broader conversation about crew workload, security, digital access control and maritime domain awareness.
They also get into the realities of building hardware for ships, proving ROI, overcoming resistance to change, raising capital and learning from other industries.
In this episode:
01:25 Jon’s journey from the Royal Navy to maritime security and Sentinel
04:29 The problem with the traditional gangway watch
09:22 Building a maritime solution from technology outside shipping
10:58 Implementation, change management and lessons from the crew
18:09 Crew welfare, efficiency and digitizing the visitor log
22:33 Measuring ROI and potential crew-hour savings
25:48 Winning The Captain’s Table at Posidonia and the funding challenge
30:00 From a gangway solution to maritime access control
35:46 What Jon is reading
Stay salty. Stay curious.
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Music by: Peg and The Rejected “King of SKA”
Art Work By: GA Design
Produced by: Chris Aversano
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