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INTERVIEW Subsea Europe Services

Subsea Europe Services

Soren, to start, can you give an overview, a ‘by what are the primary drivers? moditized. How do you see it?

the numbers’ account if you like of Subsea Eu- Autonomy, both of the sensor systems Well, especially in shallow water. With rope Services today? but also autonomy of the platform car- shallow water systems the technological

Subsea Europe Services is a young rying the sensor system, which from differences between the different multi- company, founded in January 2020, our perspective are two separate topics. beam systems available on the market which was only a few weeks before CO- In particular the autonomy of the sen- are rather small. So selecting a suitable

VID-19 started dominating our lives. sor system requires the use of arti? cial system for the job has become more like

The goal of Subsea Europe is to make intelligence moving forward, which we a some kind of a passion statement rath- it possible for every organization to col- believe is the second important driver er than a fact-based decision. Now, this lect and evaluate marine data profes- here. There will be no autonomous data commoditization is in fact also enabling sionally. During our ? rst year in busi- processing and evaluation capabilities new business models for system integra- ness we made a signi? cant investment in without AI, neural networks or super- tors like us. So we believe we’ve stan- the rental pool. We currently have more vised learning. This can be problematic dardized on an integrated hydrographic than 10 systems up to date. We’ve devel- because we have suf? cient data avail- survey system that we believe meets the oped and also successfully implemented able in the Maritime domain, but not requirements of at least 90%, maybe the integrated Hydrographic Survey suf? cient proven interpretations of the 95% or for multibeam survey jobs in

System concept. And we’ve grown our data to train the network. That’s a hard shallow water. So through this high level ? eld support capabilities so we have a nut to crack for the future, but both au- of standardization, we can keep the cost total of ? ve people, which I think is a tonomy and AI will enable new business base low and still offer great technology great achievement under the COVID-19 models for us and lead to a disruption of with great technical support. And this dominated world. existing value chains. then gives us the required leverage to of- fer our integrated systems. For example,

I know everything today is viewed through a CO- It is a fascinating ‘push and pull.’ As technology on a subscription basis for customers

VID-19 lens, and we will be getting back to that has evolved, it seems to a degree that hydro- who need a full-? edged system only a later, but when you look at your business today, graphic survey has become somewhat com- few times a year, but, of course, want the 10 January/February 2021

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