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It is widely accepted that Finland houses a treasure trove of information regarding Arctic operations, cour- tesy of its geographic location and long experience in

Finnish Know-How & the region. This knowledge base has expanded fur-

TECH TALK ther, as Finnish maritime innovators Fleetrange and

KNL Networks have reportedly pioneered cost-ef? - cient Arctic situational awareness – the “Fleetrange

Arctic Situational with KNL” solution – using a combination of IoT, Cloud and 3G/HF hybrid telecommunications technology.

The solution includes up-to-date weather-, ice-, ship tracking and sensor data and sustains critical email

Awareness communications in areas where satellite communica- tions are expensive, unreliable or non-existent.

The companies are also reportedly the ? rst in the world to provide Arctic maritime situational aware- ness, IoT and communications using technology inde- pendent of satellites.

The technology trial has successfully been complet- ed onboard Salén Ship Management’s luxury Expedi- tion Cruiser “Hebridean Sky” during her Arctic season around Svalbard. The trial included the Fleetrange IoT cloud platform which uses KNL’s long-range – up to 10 000 km – 3G/HF hybrid communications technology to provide Arctic situational awareness between the ship and shore side of? ce as well as sustaining criti- cal operational email communications for the captain.

The trial was conducted during Hebridean Sky’s Arctic season 2017, where the ship was ? tted with KNL’s pat- ented cognitive and software de? ned radio equipment and Fleetrange IoT units. The Fleetrange cloud-based situational awareness solution was used to deliver up- to-date weather data and ice charts automatically to the ship and receiving IoT sensor data from the ship.

Photo by Noble Caledonia Expedition Team

Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Design

A A A A ABB Digitalizes

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The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has com-

ABB has added ‘Fleet Intelligence’ to o o pleted the design review of the Front End Engineering it its ABB Ability Collaborative Operations s s and Design (FEED) documentation for the VolturnUS, s s s s software, providing a single overview of f f f a ? oating offshore wind turbine (FOWT), developed by t t t their ship system maintenance needs s. . the University of Maine Advanced Structures and Com-

F F Fleet Intelligence is designed to deliver r r posites Center.

g g g greater ef? ciency and more precise e e “UMaine is pleased that its innovative design be- in inspection scheduling, better spare e e came the ? rst ? oating wind turbine concrete semi- p p parts availability, asset protection and d d submersible hull to be reviewed by ABS, and found to p p prolonged equipment service life, help p- - - meet the ABS requirements,” said Dr. Habib J. Dagher, in ing to minimize the requirement for r r

P.E, UMaine Composites Center executive director and s s s s service engineer visits. It combines s s principal investigator. c c c cutting-edge IT for marine equipment t t “After 10 years of development, this is a major mile- m m maintenance planning, including ad- - - stone for our program, and we expect the VolturnUS v v v v vanced analytics of data in the cloud, , hull concept to continue to attract private investment w w w w with ABB’s domain knowledge and d d from the U.S. and around the world. Nearly 70 percent te t t technical services support remote op p- - - of the U.S. offshore wind resources can be captured e e e erational centers.

using the UMaine VolturnUS technology, and we are “Moving away from theoretical main- - - looking forward to working with offshore wind develop- te t t tenance based on supplier manuals s s ers across the U.S.” m m means that the customer can create e e

The patented VolturnUS, developed by the UMaine w w w w work orders that feed into a planned d d

Advanced Structures and Composites Center is based m m maintenance system based on actua al l on a concrete four-column semi-submersible hull con- n n need rather than service manual gen- - - cept. In 2013, the UMaine team successfully tested e e e eralities,” said Kenneth Nakken, ABB B B the feasibility of the concept by developing a 1:8 scale

M M Marine & Ports Head of Digital Service e. .

model and deploying it in Castine, Maine. Maine Aqua “ “Closing the loop on maintenance as s- - -

Ventus I, GP, LLC, is now leading a full-scale, two tur- s s s s sessment, equipment monitoring and d d bine demonstration project called New England Aqua a a a analytics gives customers the applica a- - -

Ventus I, a 12 megawatt (MW) ? oating offshore wind t t t tion they need to fully digitalize vesse el l pilot project to develop a clean, renewable energy o o o operations.” source off Maine’s shores.

Fleet Intelligence harnesses the inte e- - -

This pilot project will demonstrate the innovative g g g gration at the heart of shipboard ABB B B

VolturnUS at full-scale as a viable and economical

A A A A Ability systems such as Integrated Auto o- - - alternative for offshore wind developments in water agnost m ti ma ma on and Remot m m m mation and Remote e Di Diag gnostic ics. s. depths greater than 50 meters.

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