KVH Industries along with Kongsberg Digital successfully installed their first joint maritime Internet of Things (IoT) system on an active operating vessel, improving the vessel’s operation and data flow to shore.
Specifically, the two partners installed a KVH Watch VSAT antenna for IoT connectivity and the Kognifai Vessel Insight platform on Simrad Echo, a Norwegian research vessel owned and operated by Kongsberg, which will continue normal operations during the pilot maritime IoT project.
The IoT provides many opportunities to the shipping industry and maritime equipment manufacturers who look for additional ways to enhance vessel operations via real-time monitoring and data analysis.
Kongsberg commented that this project is “one of the first cases of an active working vessel using an integrated maritime IoT solution.”
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The Kongsberg Mapping Cloud application will move high-resolution echo sounding data from vessel to shore in real time so that shore-based experts can provide analysis to optimize vessel operations. Also, Simrad Echo will rely on Kognifai Vessel Insight to monitor main and auxiliary systems on the vessel and help ensure 100% availability.
Vigleik Takle, Kongsberg Digital’s senior vice president of maritime digital solutions stated that
While Vessel Insight works as an infrastructure for accessing contextualized quality data from a vessel or fleet, KVH is providing an alternative for IoT connectivity that enables the transfer of data from ship to cloud.
