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The ? ve pilot projects approved for ? nance support by Innovation Norway include: • Enhanced personnel protection for the offshore wind industry • Retro? tting ships for real time monitoring of fuel consumption • A retro? t solution for environmental monitoring of hazardous areas and rooms on board vessels • Wireless sensor solutions for automatic Man Over

Board (MOB) and fall detection, and • Enhanced personnel protection for the oil and gas industry.

vessel are approaching the windmill offshore installa- tion, they can easily see, which windmills do they have people on board?

What were the other three projects?

We have our fall detection and man overboard project that helps to develop more accurate positioning of peo- ple that fall overboard. Since everyone onboard will have this wristband, we can see where they are. It also works for falls inside the vessel. Then we have two projects that are more connected to IOT/digitalization.

One project is speci? c to fuel, as we look to present an easy, low-cost installation for fuel monitoring. For vessels in the world ? eet, the only tool for measuring fuel is the noon report. We believe that if the captain could easily see the fuel consumption instantly on the bridge, it would be more like you have in your car.

In testing the system, it took only a half an hour from we went on board a vessel until we had their fuel con- sumption on a computer on shore. The ? fth and last project, that is collecting environmental signals. There are a huge amount of sensors that are distributing sig- nals, for example on Bluetooth. But on board a ves- sel – if you would like to understand the oxygen level, or H2S4 level, a dangerous gas – if you would like to understand the level of that gas in certain areas, it is a bit dif? cult today because you need a cable to all these sensors, or you need at least to put up a WiFi hub in the room. However, with our radios, you can pick up these signals throughout the vessels, and present it on the bridge.

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