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The huge amount of collected raw data needs analyzing to become useful.

they have signed a strategic agreement that is intended to facilitate the sharing of maritime cargo, logistics and vessel operational data to help streamline the maritime supply chain. The two compa- nies will jointly develop services, solu- tions and applications to drive industry standards for satellite connectivity and application integration in the maritime industry. Ericsson will handle the dis- tribution of Inmarsat’s XpressLink, the combined L-band and Ku-band VSAT network for the maritime market to be extended to Inmarsat’s new Fleet Xpress when it becomes available on the mar- ket. “Everyone is talking about ‘big data,’ but eventually it is the deployment of applications onboard and the end-to-end management of integrated intelligence, that will ultimately change the way the maritime industry operates; making it

Ferries and Smyril Line. “We see us as a more ef? cient, greener and unlocking this can be changed down to say every type and amount of data ef? ciently, Se- two minutes. As they are continuously rafeim said that changes ashore, among company providing Big Data for marine greater value,” said Ronald Spithout, fuel ef? ciency,” said Daniel J. Jacobsen, President Inmarsat Maritime. sending up more satellites, maybe in the shipowners, are needed. the future the ship has direct access to “We are talking about changing the CTO of the company. “The methods we “With Fleet Xpress, the world’s ? rst the cloud computing or to the Big Data way they manage their ships and the way use can be summarized under the de? ni- mobile hybrid Ka/L-band high-speed analysis system.” their company is operating daily. They tion of machine learning.” broadband service, embedded in and

Vessel and ? eet performance can be enabling world-class solutions from

In two years time Laros has been in- need to build a new framework inside stalled in some 150 tankers, container the company, hire an engineer that has accessed from any standard browser, Ericsson, we are re-de? ning maritime ships and bulk carriers. The amount a background in energy ef? ciency for anywhere. Automatic alerts are given connectivity. This transformational of data gathered by Laros is in total example, and build a team around him, when attention is required.

agreement will open up opportunities 1,188,000 measurements per hour. The before investing in this type of systems.” for vessel operators and managers to data is though automatically processed, Danish company GreenSteam has in Inmarsat and Ericsson in Strategic capture intelligent data immediately,” and accessed by a desktop computer two years reached commercial speed in Agreement said Ronald Spithout, President Inmar- and even a mobile phone, where critical its operations, with 40 ship installations In November, Inmarsat, the global sat- sat Maritime. The agreement will pave under its belt, and claims a three months ellite communications services provider, the way for integration with Ericsson’s information can immediately be recog- nized. pay-back time for its system. Among ref- and Ericsson, the communications tech-

Maritime ICT Cloud and global con-

In order to be able to utilize this new erences are such companies like Brittany nology and services provider, announced nectivity including both Ka and L-band. “We are happy that the reliability of the

Inmarsat constellation of satellites and operational standards are recognized as the best ? t in the Ericsson road map of integrated services,” Spithout said. Eric- sson believes that the Internet of Things has the potential to generate tremen- dous value for the maritime industry. “Partnering with the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services is the best means of helping the maritime industry to realize this value.

Together with Inmarsat we will jointly develop fully integrated services, solu- tions and applications, and work toward establishing maritime industry standards for satellite connectivity and application integration,” said John Taxgaard, Head

Eniram’s vision of a future touch screen display, showing various parameters of the entire ? eet. This screen shows cur- rent sea state, with passenger satisfac- tion indicated on the left.

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