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Ballast Water Analytics allast water treatment systems (BWTS) manufac- “DLAU originally started as tool developed for use by turer Hyde Marine earlier this year launched the our in-house technical support team to better and more

Hyde GUARDIAN Data Log Analysis Utility consistently process and analyze customer BWTS data,”

B (DLAU) as a part of its suite of aftermarket ser- said Chris Todd, executive director, Calgon Carbon UV vices. Said to be the industry’s ? rst data-driven analytics Technologies, Hyde Marine. “As the project materialized, platform, the cloud-based, IoT solution empowers recur- we began to see that the potential for this application was ring Hyde GUARDIAN BWTS health monitoring, stan- much bigger than our original project vision. We realized dardized performance reporting and options for enhanced, that what was good for us regarding BWTS data analysis ? eet-wide environmental compliance management. was also good for the customer.”

Todd said DLAU solves key BWTS performance tracking and health monitoring issues stemming from inconsistent operations feedback and manual data analysis. “Historically,

BWTS health has always only ever been maintained retro- actively, as in something breaks and we then ? x it. It was always a race to try to get ahead of ? eld issues as they arise,” he said. “DLAU establishes a portal whereby customers may quickly feed BWTS data back to us and this data is then au- tomatically organized and processed for review by both the customer and Hyde Marine staff. Now we are easily able to stay ahead of BWTS issues before potentially consequential errors or system faults arise and can deploy corrective action and guidance proactively instead of reactively.” “From integrated remote access technology to indicative compliance testing to BWTS operational simulation to au- tomated data analytics and performance reporting, these technical solutions provide vessels with the resources they need to achieve peak performance with respect to ballast water regulations,” Todd said.

The cloud-based data analytics and data warehousing solution is built upon a three-tier ETL architecture. Vari- ous programming languages are utilized to best process the

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BWTS data, these including VBA, Python, and SQL pri- marily, Todd said. It is offered as free service during the

GUARDIAN BWTS’s inherent warranty period and then available via subscription through one of the manufactur- er’s technology and support plans.

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