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#Indian Ocean | Development

#University of Western Australia | Deep ocean research | Discovering new species | Assessing marine biodiversity | Mapping the ocean floor | Charting deep-sea habitats | Specialising in abyssal (3,000-6,000 m) and hadal (6,000-11,000 m) depths

#Minderoo Foundation | Research centre to increase understanding about the deepest parts of the ocean | Expeditions to explore the hadal zones (6000m+) of the Indian Ocean | Assessing biodiversity, habitats, genetic connectivity, evolutionary adaptation and anthropogenic impacts | Increasing the seafloor mapping of the Western Australian Exclusive Economic Zone and the wider east Indian Ocean

#Indian Ocean Research Group Inc. (IORG) | Research relevant to the Indian Ocean

#RIO Research Centre Indian Ocean | Serving as a hub for scientific work within the region of the Indian Ocean

#ZSL & Bertarelli Foundation | Researching Indian Ocean

#Indian Ocean World Centre | McGill University research about Indian Ocean

#Columbia Climate School | Indian Ocean Projects

#Stanford University | Indian Ocean Research

#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas

#Energy security | Indo Pacific energy forum | U.S. | Japan | India | Australia | International Energy Agency

#Rosetti Superyachts | Emocean | Fully custom superyacht | Custom designed wine cellar | Italian shipyard | Speaking with subcontractors | Rosetti Marino Group | Hydro Tec | Priorities included spending long periods on board regardless of sea conditions | Pushing the use of space to the limit | 793 gallons of refrigerator and freezer space for long term provisions | Virtuous circle where all parties felt free to throw on the table new ideas and concepts to incorporate in the design | Selecting the best contractor for each element | Exploration oriented projects

#Monte Fino E Class Explorer | Global demand for expedition style cruising in an eco-friendly way | Kha Shing | Taiwan | Developed using fluid dynamics | Eco efficient cruising across long distances | Octoplex tablet for monitoring and operating systems

#Sea Machines | Navigation and collision avoidance system | Electronic charts | Controlling steering and propulsion | Collision avoidance | Networked cameras to detect, track, geolocate, and classify objects | Human on the loop scheme

#Sunway University | Studying the shared culture of countries surrounding the Indian Ocean

#Australian Institute of Marine Science | Indian Ocean marine science

#Indian Ocean Rim Association | Regional forum

#Western Australian Department of Fisheries | Fisheries research

#Mercom India | Hydrogen Harnessed from Ocean Water research

#Maritime India | Hydrogen derived from Ocean Renewable Energy Resources

#Ministry of Power, Government of India | Hydrogen produced by way of electrolysis of water using Renewable Energy

#European Geosciences Union | Plastics in the Indian Ocean

#Frontiers | Potential Plastic Accumulation Zones in the Indian Coastal Seas

#CeScube | Chemical Pollution in Indian Ocean

#World Bank | A healthy Indian Ocean feeds, protects, and connects all South Asians

#University of Oxford | High resolution model to quantify the sources of plastic debris accumulating on beaches across the Seychelles and other island states in the western Indian Ocean

#UNESCO | Plastic debris on Aldabra Atoll

#Sky News | Aldabra atoll plasric carbage in the Indian Ocean

#IUCN | Western Indian Ocean plastic tap

#Science Daily | Microplastics in the Indian Ocean

#Conservation | Seychelles is becoming overwhelmed by marine plastic

#International Whaling Commission | Treaty to tackle plastic pollution

#United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | Marine Plastic Pollution

#India Ministry of Environment | Indian Ocean projects

#Wildlife Institute of India | Marine plastic pollution migitation

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#Azure Funding | Boat Loans

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#Commonwealth | Asia | Brunei | India | Malaysia | Maldives | Pakistan | Singapore | Sri Lanka

#Heesen | Acquire yachts that are already under construction | Platform concept | Proven engineering platform | Tested hulls | Semi custom series | Unique exterior design | Ability to personalise the yacht | Reducing both delivery time and costs | Producing in lines | Exclusivity is guaranteed | Production numbers of each platform are limited | Ability to build completely different yachts using an identical platform

#Doyle Sails | Sail solutions | Cruising | Main sales | Head sales | Code sales | Downwind sales

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Maritime monitoring

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#Wartsila | Marine autonomy solutions

#Aqualink | Ocean conservation technology | Autonomous Surface Vehicle(ASV) kit | ROS | Pixhawk | NVIDA Jetson GPU | Solar powered smart buoy

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#Elroy Air | Autonomous cargo aircraft systems| Vertical take off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft | Specially designed aerodynamic modular cargo pods | Commercial logistics | Disaster relief | Firefighting | Humanitarian operations | Replacing difficult ground transportation | Detachable pod | Dropping off cargo | Pickkung up ready to go cargo | Makint deliveries fast | Allowing ground crew to empty or load a pod at their leisure

#UPM | UPM Raflatac Ocean Action | Ocean Action label | Made from ocean bound plastic | Creating a demand for reclaiming plastic waste before it pollutes oceans | Chemically recycled plastic | Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Granta Design | Orthex | Raw material made from used fishing nets

#Stora Enso | Renewable and recyclable paperboard solutions | Wood fibers in disposable cutlery | Pulp for food packaging | Formed fiber products

#Bahrain Institute for Pearls and Gemstones (DANAT) | Developing characterization tools for the properties of pearls | Explore technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls

#Skymet Weather | Private weather services

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#SiLC | Machine Vision solutions with FMCW LiDAR vision | FMCW at the 1550nm wavelength | Eyeonic Vision Sensor platform | Detecting vehicles and various obstacles from long distances | Honda Xcelerator Ventures | Honda Marine

#National Technical University of Athens | MariNeXt deep-learning framework detecting and identifying marine pollution | Sentinel-2 imagery | Detecting marine debris and oil spills on sea surface | Automated data collection and analysis across large spatial and temporal scales | Deep learning framework | Data augmentation techniques | Multi-scale convolutional attention network | Marine Debris and Oil Spill (MADOS) dataset | cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch framework | NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPUs | NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program | AI framework produced promising predictive maps | Shortcomings: unbalanced dataset, marine water and oil spills are abundant, foam and natural organic material are less represented

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington

#Infinera | Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and optical transmission equipment | Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) | Technology supports high-capacity data transport | Powering global submarine networks | Leading subsea networking industry in Asia-Pacific region

#Wilhelmsen | Smart Rope | Measuring unit embedded within Timm Master rope | Making mooring operations safer and more efficient | Improving longevity for ropes | Unit transmits key tension, time and temperature information via wireless communication to command module on bridge | New mooring lines can be ordered and delivered when needed, not based on arbitrary schedules | Bridge sees tension in each of their mooring lines via app | Reduced life span if mooring ropes are used to manoeuvre out of port | Lack of insight into rope usage leads to inefficient replenishment | Visual inspections are not sufficient to determine if ropes are deteriorating faster than expected

#Submarinecablemap.com | Submarine Cable Map

#VORAGO | Radiation hardened and radiation tolerant microcontrollers and microprocessors | High-volume manufacturing to harden commercially designed semiconductor component | Empowers mission success | Radiation-hardened ICs that excel in extreme environments | ARM | Texas Instruments | Brainchip | Custom hardware and firmware solutions tailored to withstand extreme environments | Ensuring that mission-critical components remain resilient | Custom solutions, armed with space-grade electronics and an ARM Cortex microcontrollers | International Space Station: dies measuring the effects of protons and cosmic rays | Satelites: devices utilized in Department of Defense Space Test Program (STP) missions | CubeSats: ARM microvontroller | Semiconductor components and solutions for extreme temperature environments up to +200°C

#Saronic | Port Alpha | Shipyard designed to build autonomous ships for hybrid fleet | Investors: General Catalyst, a16z, Caffeinated Capital, 8VC | Delivering new classes of unmanned ships | U.S. Navydeclared need for hybrid fleet which integrates significant number of unmanned systems operating alongside manned platforms

#Liebherr Maritime | Port equipment | Ship to shore container cranes | Mobile harbour cranes | Rubber tyre gantry cranes | Offshore cranes | Ship cranes | Bulk, cargo and container handling cranes

#MemryX | AI Accelerator Module | Install system software, MemryX SDK, MemryX board | Compile AI model(s) making executable file | Send data & receive results using APIs for AI processing | Up to 6 TFLOPs (1GHz) per chip | Up to 16-chips (96 TOPS/TFLOPs) can be interconnected | Activations: bfloat16 (high accuracy) | Weights: 4 / 8 / 16 bit | Batch = 1 | 10.5M 8-bit parameters (weights) per chip | PCIe Gen 3 I/O | USB 3 interface | 0.6-2W per chip av power | Smart compiler: optimized and automated AI mapping to MemryX hardware | Powerful APIs: Python and C/C++ low and mid-level APIs for AI integration | Runtime: driver and firmware to support Windows or Linux distributions | Bit Accurate simulator: accurately testing models even without MemryX hardware

#Marine Jet Power Propulsion

#GeorgePoveromo | Radar for Marlin

#RokMax | Rods, reels, lures, tackle and other gear for marlin fishing

#SeaVee Boats | Custom boat builder | 420Z | Hull, liner, deck, console, and all small parts made using vacuum-assisted resin-transfer infusion process, with PVC core material for weight savings, strength, and manufacturing consistency

#Suzuki Marine | Motors for bass boats, bay boats flats skiffs, performance pontoon, deck boats, large offshore center consoles

#Mercury | DriftHook | Maintaining boat heading while allowing for natural drift with wind and current

#CutWater | Boats

#Crevalle | Boats

#Cobia Boats | Boats

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#NVidia | Dexterous robot development | Manipulating objects with precision, adaptability, and efficiency | Fine motor control, coordination, ability to handle a wide range of tasks, often in unstructured environments | Key aspects of robot dexterity include grip, manipulation, tactile sensitivity, agility, and coordination | Robot dexterity fevelopment for manufacturing, healthcare, logistics | Dexterity enabling automation in tasks that traditionally require human-like precision

#e-con Systems | Camera solutions for NVIDIA platforms | Full HD Global Shutter Camera for Jetson AGX Orin | Jetson AGX Orin: 64GB module, 275 TOPS with power configurable 15W and 60W | Multiple 4k ultra-lowlight camera for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin | Global shutter | Rolling shutter | Autofocus and fixed focus | High resolution and frame rate | High dynamic range | High sensitivity in both visible and NIR regions | Superior color reproduction | MIPI and GMSL2 interfaces | Camera SDK configured to support Isaac SDK | Multi-camera support | NVIDIA Isaac GEMs ROS: GPU-accelerated packages for ROS2 application | Isaac ROS GEMs help to assess camera position with regard to its starting point | Isaac ROS GEMs empower robotic applications to maneuver and navigate through complicated environments | Installing ROS 2 requires Ubuntu 20.04 | Board cameras | USB 3.0 cameras | Autonomous mobile robots, autonomous shopping

#Blue Atlas Robotics | Self-operating service robot that performs underwater surveys | Shared data platform collecting data from selected Nordic vendors of airborne and subsea drone systems | Sentinus 2 robot live-streamed high-quality underwater data during subsea surveillance operation using 5G in controller unit | Smultaneous aerial streams, enabling comprehensive surveillance solution that covered both above and below water | With minimal equipment, mission preparation becomes effortless, offering greater flexibility | Vision-lock to target for efficient mission ensuring the best quality of data | Point clouds | 3D models | Underwater assets managrment | Visual inspection outputs for vessel bottoms | In-water propeller inspections | Sea chest inspections | Inspecting bow thrusters

#Skyhawk | Wireless Vessel Monitoring System | 915 MHz RF tech | Verizon IoT, | Over-the-air updates | Wake-on-radio receiver technology | Decentralized architecture | Any Oversea hub can detect RF communications from any Oversea sensor | Communications relayed via cellular modem to Skyhawk servers.| Each sensor and hub designed to operate for years on single set of AA batteries | Oversea app and airtime subscription required

#uWare Robotics | Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)

#SubC Imaging | Integrated cameras, software, and remote solutions for deep-sea research

#Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA) | Surveillance of vessels in the Arctic Regions of Norway (NAVAREA XIX) | Investing to space industry

#Tampere University | Pneumatic touchpad | Soft touchpad sensing force, area and location of contact without electricity | Device utilises pneumatic channels | Can be used in environments such as MRI machines | Soft robots | Rehabilitation aids | Touchpad does not need electricity | It uses pneumatic channels embedded in the device for detection | Made entirely of soft silicone | 32 channels that adapt to touch | Precise enough to recognise handwritten letters | Recognizes multiple simultaneous touches | Ideal for use in devices such as MRI machines | If cancer tumours are found during MRI scan, pneumatic robot can take biopsy while patient is being scanned | Pneumatic device can be used in strong radiation or conditions where even small spark of electricity would cause serious hazard

#Norwegian Institute of Marine Research | Arctic Sea research

#UK Marine Biological Association | Marine heat waves research

#Seakit International | MaxLimer | Uncrewed surface vessel

#Argo | Collecting information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and a mid water level | Floats (instruments) spend almost all their life below the surface | Observing ocean data related to climate change

#Simrad | Marine Chartplotters | Autopilots | Radar | Beam sharpening technology | ZoneTrack | Halo Dangerous Target Alerts | Bird+ Mode

#OndoSense | Radar distance sensor | Sensor software: integrated into control system or used for independent quality monitoring | Object detection | Distance measurement | Position control | Agriculture: reliable height control of the field sprayer | Mining industry | Transport & Logistics | Shipping & Offshore | Mechanical and plant engineering | Metal and steel industry | Energy sector | Harsh industrial environments | Dust & smoke: no influence | Rain & snow: no influence | Radar frequency: 122GHz | Opening angle: ±3° | Measuring range: 0.3 – 40 m | Measuring rate: up to 100Hz | Output rate: up to 10 ms / 100 Hz | Measurement accuracy; up to ±1mm | Measurement precision: ±1mm | Communication protocol: RS485; Profinet, other interfaces via gateway | Switching output: 3x push-pull (PNP/NPN) | Analogue output: Current interface (4 – 20 mA) | Protection class: IP67

#Untether AI | Accelerating AI inference | PCI-Express form factor and power envelope | Over 2 PetaOps per card | Accelerator card | AI chip | Intel backef | Toronto, Canada

#Orca AI | FleetView for fleet operators and management | SeaPod | Artificial intelligence-based maritime navigation assistant, watchkeeper | Automated object detection and prioritization | All marine object detection | Curbing marine mammal strikes | Reducing whale mortality rates

#SailDrone | Ocean Data Solutions with Autonomous Surface Vehicles

#OLogic | Robotics | Pumpkin Pi i350 EVK | Edge AI platform | Designed for mainstream AI + IoT applications | Vision and voice edge processing | Facial, object, gesture, motion recognition | LPR, voice activation and speed recognition | Sound isolation, bio-tech and biometric measurements

#Field AI | Autonomous systems for machines deployed to fields | Off-road autonomy

#NavVis | Reality capture technology | Tools for creating photorealistic digital twins of physical environments | Enhancing productivity in surveying and construction | Enablinging faster and more accurate spatial data collection and analysis | Allinq Digital used NavVis VLX and automatic modeling tools to decrease Schiphol airport to scan for BIM | BOND Construction scanning and modeling facilities across Massachusetts, USA, including airports, cruise terminals, warehouses | Four people scanned terminal in five working days | Point cloud cleaned and registered in under three days | Modelers work remotely through NavVis IVION | Hiding walls and ceilings toggles off visual clutter so you can focus on equipment, layouts, and assets | Point cloud cleanup | Georeferenced model alignment: NavVis IVION recognizes coordinate systems in IFC files and positions models automatically | TopoDOT integration: convert NavVis panoramas to IPRJ files

#Moonen Yachts | Semi-custom shipyard | Moonen Martinique yacht

#Cummins | Microgrids | Providing flexible autonomous power solutions | Locally-controlled power sources that can integrate multiple energy resources such as diesel, natural gas, wind or solar power | When traditional power grid goes out, microgrid can immediately switch to backup generators and batteries | Resiliency: When one energy source fails, microgrids ensure continuous power | Decarbonization: Microgrids can incorporate renewable energy sources | Greenhouses | Healthcare facilities | Remote communities and islands