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People, Company & Product News from Ocean Business is EvoLogics? new tool for underwater network protocol de- velopers and end-users of EvoLogics devices. A network of virtual underwater acoustic modems, con gured and run on EvoLogics server, can be accessed remotely and provides framework for development and end-user training.  The underwater acoustic modem emulator extends the Evo- Logics developer solutions range that already includes the WiSE (White Line Science Edition) line of underwater acous- tic modems with an embedded network protocol development platform, providing a  exible framework for designing new network protocols on real hardware. www.evologics.de Forum Subsea Rentals Adds iXBlue Systems Forum Subsea Rentals made further investment in inertial navigation technology from supplier iXBlue. The equipment is due to be utilized for ROV positioning in survey and con- struction support applications on projects worldwide. The contract includes a quantity of ROVINS subsea inertial navi- gation systems as well as OCTANS gyrocompasses that are upgradable to full INS capability of the ROVINS. The positioning solution provided by ROVINS can be en- hanced with the use of a Doppler Velocity Log which can be coupled directly to the INS or  tted elsewhere on the vehicle. In either case, for best performance, it is necessary to perform an alignment calibration procedure. This can be performed on site however users often prefer to have the sensors coupled and calibrated prior to mobilization to a project. iXBlue engineers assisted Forum in the preparation and cali- bration of six ROVINS/DVL sets to be mobilized to a project in the Spring of 2013. A survey vessel was hired for a week during which the coupled systems were calibrated and a num-ber of Forum Engineers were fully trained in the procedure by the iXBlue engineers. DP-PHINS Adds to Acoustics iXBlue expanded the functionality of its PHINS inertial navigation system (INS) to interface with third-party acous- tic positioning equipment, providing INS-enhanced acoustic data input to marine dynamic positioning (DP) systems. DP- Caption: (Credit: Forum Subsea Rentals) (Credit: iXBlue) May 201340 MTRMTR #4 (34-48).indd 40MTR #4 (34-48).indd 405/6/2013 10:19:40 AM5/6/2013 10:19:40 AM