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Source: Kongsberg gets, database solutions, routing and making it possible for ship owners to Kongsberg Maritime’s Subsea busi- queue support features. monitor the status of their assets from ness. Capable of accepting input from

As an open platform, the range of any web browser in any location. a range of different sources including applications supported by Kognifai is The cloud also offers almost in? nite cameras, multibeam echosounders diverse. Recent organizations to join capacity for storage. Kognifai allows and temperature sensors, it is built on

Kognifai include the UK Met Of? ce, large data sets to be stored, which re- Kognifai and targets the survey indus-

Finnish maritime communications main exclusive to the user unless they try. The ? rst application to be released technology developer KNL Networks grant access to others. This can be done within Mapping Cloud is Storage, and cyber-security experts KPMG on an individual or group basis and on designed with an interface similar to

The scope for data generation and, a permanent or time-limited basis. If other PC-based ? le managers to make more importantly, sharing and col- they are prepared to grant more general it intuitive to use. However, there are laboration on such a platform is im- access, large datasets facilitate machine a few differences which tailor its func- mense. Kongsberg currently has a learning, allowing Kognifai to generate tionality for the data-intense, collab- footprint on more than 30,000 ships; additional future value for its users. orative world of modern hydrography.

as an example, the company’s Divi- sion for Vessel and Fleet Performance • Data upload. Storage has cloud

Making the most of storage has more than 1,000 ships from Eu- connectors, which can be in-

Mapping Cloud is a joint concept rope, Asia and the US using Kognifai, developed by Kongsberg Digital and stalled on ships to automatically

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