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Rolls-Royce’s new “Intelligent Awareness System” aims to make shipping safer.


As technology gets ever more complex and challenging to understand for the surveyor, Rolls-Royce engineers and software developers have upped the ante still further. Their eye catching, newly created Intelligent Awareness System looks likely to make a significant impact on the safer operation of vessels possible.


Rolls-Royce has created what it believes to be the world’s first Intelligent Awareness System, designed to help seafarers operate vessels more safely and efficiently. Combining multiple sensors and clever software the system provides the Bridge with a better understanding of the ship’s surroundings than ever before.


Iiro Lindborg, general manager of remote and autonomous operations, Rolls-Royce, explains; “the Intelligent Awareness Systems use multiple sensors, including high definition cameras, night vision, radar, LIDARs and AIS data, and integrates the different data sets to give the crew on board a wider range of perspectives on their situation.”


Using what he calls “data fusion” the sensors offer interchangeable layers of insight. Crewmen can switch, for example, between a 3D map rendered by LIDAR, a radar overlay or a topography that shows the ocean bed. In a very recent innovation the system has incorporated fog horn detection; that can map the distance between two vessels based on acoustic information.


48 | The Report • June 2017 • Issue 80


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