Monitoring & Control

Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has produced an innovative and compact autonomous profiling winch that will operate unmanned for 30 days.

Seacat Services, has installed the BareFLEET system, an advanced remote monitoring system developed by Reygar, across its fleet of fourteen class-certified catamarans.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has highlighted the need to consider seafarer training and standards as shipping evolves, with increasing levels of technology and automation.

French ferry operator La Méridionale, has taken notable steps in digitalising its fleet with the latest energy management technology.

L3 ASV and Dstl have completed 1,380km of Autonomous Reconnaissance Missions at Autonomous Warrior in Australia.

M Subs Ltd has installed a sensor system with connected artificial intelligence (AI) machine-learning technology around the UKs Plymouth Sound to aid the computing system central to the maritime AI system which…

Samskip has been named lead partner in a project seeking to bring to market emissions-free, autonomous container ships that also operate at a profit.

Motocraft has become Humphree’s new distributor in Greece, offering modern facilities and a large showroom area.

Swiss-Swedish technology company, ABB, and Helsinki City Transport have successfully demonstrated what is believed to be the world’s first autonomous passenger ferry.

Sea Machines Robotics showed the capability of its autonomous-command technology at the International WorkBoat Show in New Orleans with live demonstrations that remote-commanded an SM300-enabled workboat in Boston, more than 1,500 miles…

Rolls-Royce and Finnish state-owned ferry operator Finferries have successfully demonstrated what is believed to be the world’s first fully autonomous ferry and its ability to detect objects utilising sensor fusion and artificial…

Up till now electronic displays have tended to be individual units with perhaps just the radar and electronic chart combined in one display (MFD).

A new Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) for inland waterways surveying has demonstrated a capability to follow pre-programmed survey missions while streaming live survey data to create accurate bathymetries in shallow-water or hazardous…

Several workboat builders now offer their own, bespoke systems for managing and monitoring onboard systems from on the boat or on shore.

A strategic partnership has been established to deliver an expanded range of cost-effective cloud-based ship-shore technology for ship managers

Thales UK has opened a new Maritime Autonomous Systems Trials and Evaluation Centre in Plymouth which aims to change the way autonomous capability is developed over the next decade.

Sea trials have been completed for a vessel intelligence system and a remote-control system designed to help enable intelligent autonomous command and control of operations with improved productivity, predictability, performance and safety.

What is claimed to be the world’s first integrated steering and stabilizer fin control system has been introduced writes Dag Pike.