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AI-powered Situational Awareness Tech

Word from A.P. Moller-Maersk is that it roundings, identify and track potential will trial arti? cial intelligence (AI) pow- con? icts and display the knowledge in ered perception and situational aware- the wheelhouse.

ness technology on a containership.

According to Maersk, its goal is to

The deal was signed with Sea Ma- prove the situational awareness technol- chines Robotics of Boston for Maersk to ogy aids seafarers, can remove the line install computer vision, Light Detection of sight restriction from the bridge and and Ranging (LiDAR) and perception provides the infrastructure for a future software aboard one of its new-build autonomous collision avoidance sys-

Winter Palace ice-class containerships. tem.

Sea Machines said its solution uses “For this containership situational

AI to improve at-sea situational aware- awareness program, we aim to prove ness, object identi? cation and tracking the technology increases our safety, ef- capabilities, similar to advanced driver- ? ciency and reliability,” said P. Michael assistance systems (ADAS) commonly A. Rodey, senior innovation manager, found in automobiles to alert drivers of A.P. Moller-Maersk. “Autonomous ves- roadway hazards and prevent accidents. sels are not an end goal for Maersk nor

Sea Machines’ system uses sensors to is unmanned vessels; what is more of collect a continuous stream of informa- interest is the technology along the jour- tion from a vessel’s environmental sur- ney and the value it brings.”

Sea Machines

OOCL, Microsoft Partner on AI Project

Orient Overseas Container Line Limited leverage AI research and innovations already has a talent base of more than million vessel data every month. By (OOCL) has partnered with Microsoft’s to drive digital transformation in the 1,000 developers located in San Jose, leveraging AI technology and machine research arm to apply Arti? cial Intelli- shipping industry and to exchange Hong Kong, Zhuhai, Shanghai and learning, the company develops predic- knowledge among our top developers Manila. It has fully embraced a hy- tive analytics on vessel schedules and gence (AI) research to improve network operations and achieve ef? ciencies so that we can better address customer brid cloud infrastructure with auto- berth activities. MSRA is Microsoft’s within the shipping industry.

needs with advanced technologies and switching and auto-scaling throughout fundamental and applied research arm

The partnership, between OOCL and predictive analytics.” its businesses and machine learning in the Asia Paci? c region and a leading

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), will OOCL said AI is key in its digital for several years. For example, OOCL research community for core AI tech- apply deep learning research to ship- transformation vision. The company processes and analyzes more than 30 nologies including machine learning. ping network operations with a pro- jected $10 million annual operational cost saving. The collaboration is also expected to nurture over 200 AI devel- opers over the next 12 months.

“With MSRA’s efforts and expertise, we expect to save around $10 million in operation costs annually by applying the AI research and techniques for op- timizing shipping network operations from our most recent 15-week engage- ment,” said Steve Siu, Chief Informa- tion Of? cer of OOCL. “Moving for- ward, we will embark on an 18-month joint-partnership in research and devel- opment to apply deep learning and rein- forcement learning in shipping network operations. Moreover, MSRA will as- sist us in training over 200 AI engi- neers by conducting machine learning and deep learning sessions at the Hong

Kong Science Park over the next 12 months. We look forward to strength- ening our partnership with MSRA to

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