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By TRP Ewing

Image courtesy eOdyn ea Tech’s theme in 2022 surface current map that presents infor- digital and provided in SaaS (“software was “Towards Smarter and mation in near real time and at global as a service”) mode. Guichoux said

Greener Solutions.” Safety scale. new service capabilities are planned and ef? cient operations are “With SeaWaze,” Guichoux ex- for 2023, including development of an fundamental priorities for plained, “we can provide customers onboard system called eObox to deliv-

S maritime companies and agencies, with services that help reduce the en- er the real-time ocean currents data to from research to defense. Now, con- vironmental footprint of their activities ships at sea.

cerns about fuel and carbon add new and mitigate risks at sea.” Shipping ac- complexities and pressures to decisions counts for about 3% of global green- about voyages and at-sea operations. house gases. With SeaWaze a vessel can

Vessel routing has critical environ- reduce fuel consumption by an average mental issues. The most ef? cient course of 5%, Guichoux said.

will likely require less fuel. Taking Historically, ocean currents have been advantage of real-time ocean surface measured using buoys, which are dif- currents offers new possibilities for ef- ? cult to place, or altimetry satellites, ? cient navigation. a limited resource since there are only eOdyn is a maritime software com- seven in orbit. OS technology generates pany based in Plouzane, Brittany, near current information anywhere there are

Brest. During Sea Tech week, Yann ships – importantly, anywhere there is

Guichoux, eOdyn’s CEO and co-found- human activity, e.g., submarines, emer- er, met with a select group of journal- gencies, and oil spill response. ists to present and describe how eOdyn “Ocean currents provide information uses big data to provide new capabilities about conditions that affect the perfor- delivering measurable bene? ts to ship- mance of sonars used to locate subma- owners and to the planet. rines,” Guichoux explained, adding eOdyn’s technology – in a product that eOdyn “validated our data with the called SeaWaze – analyzes ships’ AIS French Navy in 2022 and quali? ed it for (automatic identi? cation system) data military use.” Additionally, SeaWaze that is automatically uploaded to satel- data can improve drift predictions for lites. (100,000 vessels are at sea every a person overboard, helping to target day.) eOdyn has built what Guichoux search areas. Data on ocean currents can refers to as “Omni-Situ” (OS) technolo- help track pollutants at sea to better pre- gy. For SeaWaze, each ship is an ocean- pare cleanup operations. (US agencies based sensor. A machine learning algo- use a network of coastal high frequency rithm takes the satellite data to create a radars for this kind of tracking.) high-resolution, spatiotemporal ocean eOdyn’s OS technology is completely www.marinelink.com 39

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