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HVAC hour. Ditto for ambient temperature and humidity and ship owners about new tech and sensors and software. Now, the full range of weather conditions. though, raw material costs are going up, while tech costs “There are opportunities now,” Glover said, “to take ad- have declined dramatically. “With a properly designed vantage of new sensors, rich data, machine learning, and system,” Glover comments, “with real-time inputs about to tie all of this together into real-time operating abilities.” chillers, equipment, ? ltration, the whole turns out to be

He said that in the past naval architects dealt with variable bigger than the sum of its parts.” Lower operating costs conditions by overdesigning multiple factors and building quicken payback times, not just in ef? ciency, but also in in redundancies. maintenance. High tech allows for real-time monitoring.

Glover said 15-20 years ago there was resistance among And problems uncovered earlier are usually cheaper to ? x.

A Flagship

Marine chilled water system.

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