WEBINAR INVITE
AUTONOMY,

A Yacht Revolution

In March 2020, DLBA unveiled the 58m AI-powered superyacht concept TEMPO. Our TEMPO project is not about autonomy for autonomy’s sake, but rather the things that autonomy enables: improved safety, efficiency, and reliability that combine to increase the yacht’s operational availability for owners and their guests. Back in March we discussed how this increased operational tempo could be achieved due to the Industry 4.0 revolution, and in particular, how that revolution is rapidly advancing capability with respect to navigation autonomy, equipment health monitoring and mechanical & electrical system automation, and cybersecurity. This webinar will dive deeper into the equipment health monitoring aspects, scratching the surface of the technical talk.

One of the key pillars of TEMPO–and the subject of this webinar–is how the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is powering mechanical and electrical system health monitoring and automation, and what that yields for owners. The sea is a harsh mistress, and superyachts are complex systems prone to failures in the best of conditions. Some of these failures are repeatable, common occurrences (e.g., loss of compression in a diesel engine) while others are rare or even unique. Some failures are identified by obvious signals from a sensor while other failures are complex and can only be understood by synthesizing indirect sensor observations. In the past, the wide variety of possible failures necessitated human crew be available to intervene and correct casualty conditions.

When people talk about “autonomy,” or “expert systems,” or “AI,” they are talking about algorithms. Algorithms, combined with the large-scale machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, allow TEMPO to automatically handle faults during operation, and in some cases prevent those faults from ever occurring in the first place. The heart of TEMPO’s improved engineering reliability is an enhanced, three-stage Condition Based Maintenance+ (CBM+) capability that utilizes a combination of rules-based machine learning and model-based reasoning.

Ultimately, the benefit to owners can be summarized as increased time that the yacht is available operationally, greater safety, and the peace of mind that comes with the yacht’s reliability.  In this webinar, Jeff Bowles of DLBA Naval Architects and Dave Schedit of Weather Gage Technologies will explore the potential benefits to yacht owners that can result from embracing this technology, and talk to the basic foundations/architecture of how Artificial Intelligence is applied to achieve these end goals.  Vessels systems, sensors, and control algorithms will be introduced and discussed at a high level.

We invite you to join us for the webinar on 12/15/2020 at 11AM EDT as we cover this exciting topic.

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