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coral reefs, sand bars and so forth. And for ‘explorer-style’ yachts, the system will detect icebergs and large whales.


FarSounder’s Cassie Stetkiewicz told me, “Yachts can encounter ‘challenges’ in shallow water on a regularly basis and Argos sonar navigation systems can detect and warn of dangers up to 350m specified at 18 knots, 500m at 20 knots or up to 1000m at 25 knots ahead of the vessel, depending upon which model they choose.


“We don’t include monitors or displays with our systems, however our standard bridge software provides a highly advanced graphical user interface such that our data can be displayed on a dedicated or shared screen


KONGSBERG MARITIME Kongsberg Maritime is a global technology company providing ‘Full Picture’ solutions for yachts. Headquartered in Norway, Kongsberg Maritime has manufacturing, sales and service facilities in 40 countries. Kongsberg Maritime integrated solutions includes propulsion and thruster solutions, stabilizers, electrical systems and energy storage, marine automation and energy management, safety, manoeuvring, navigation, and dynamic positioning together with ship design services. For expedition yachts, sophisticated sonars and echo sounders are available for seabed mapping, obstacle avoidance, bottom detection and navigation. Kongsberg Maritime is part of Kongsberg Gruppen, suppling high-technology products, systems and solutions. For more details Tel: +47 33 03 24 07 or visit www.kongsberg.com/maritime


Situational awareness is designed to mitigate the risks navigators face, especially in poor weather conditions, congested waters or at night


on many types of displays. In addition, our Software Development Kit (SDK) enables developers to integrate our 3D images directly into their products.”


THE TRICKLE-DOWN EFFECT FROM COMMERCIAL MARINE In addition to bridge technology specifically developed for yachts, the trickle-down effect from commercial marine means a wider range of options will eventually become available across both sectors. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR), for example, are closely related examples that illustrate the point.


Kongsberg Maritime, for example, have their SeaEye and SeaAware products enabling navigators and captains to ‘see what the human eye cannot’.


SeaAware fuses radar and electro-optical sensors, together with attitude, positioning and AIS sensor data to provide reliable information on all static and moving objects inside the coverage area. The navigator is provided with this information automatically


from a single source, removing the need for manual tuning of sensors and correlating their outputs.


SeaEye is a camera platform with a compact and hardwearing housing with cameras configurable 40 to 360 degrees coverage designed to cope in a maritime environment. Machine vision CMOS technology enables crystal clear imagery across all scenarios, with unrivalled pixel precision, including in low-light.


Roger from Kongsberg Maritime, told me, “The system is the first of our Ship Intelligence,


remote and autonomous


solutions to be developed for commercial marine


application. Combining multiple


sensors with intelligent software, situational awareness is designed to mitigate the risks navigators face, especially in poor weather conditions, congested waters or at night.”


“Other instances could be, for example, when using situational awareness to detect quay positions, and by using the all-speed autopilot to ‘park.’ Or using situational


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