MARISPACE-X

Maritime Smart Sensor Dataspace

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The Project Marispace-X

Maritime Smart Sensor Dataspace

Marispace-X is an application-, business- and environment-orientated project funded by the BMWK with a total budget of 15 million euros. The aim is to revolutionise the collection, management, visualisation and analysis of maritime data at European level. In a world where maritime data is collected by numerous stakeholders and made available on different platforms, Marispace-X provides a uniform standard and a central platform to handle this data securely and efficiently.

The project addresses a key challenge of the digital transformation in the maritime sector: the heterogeneity and fragmentation of data standards. By building on the principles of Gaia-X - data sovereignty, security, interoperability and modularity - Marispace-X creates a digital maritime data space that facilitates and optimises collaboration between different stakeholders.

Marispace-X integrates big data technologies and enables complex analyses that have so far mainly been found in commercial, often unregulated applications. By creating a standardised, regulated environment, the project is helping to improve the quality and reliability of maritime data analyses. This not only promotes scientific research, but also economic applications and innovations in the maritime sector.

Five central maritime use cases will be considered throughout the project, from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2024: Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), Offshore Wind Energy, Munitions in the Sea, Biological Climate Protection, and Critical Infrastructure: 
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Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT)

Data-driven underwater technologies and sensor networks are central to the future digital blue economy. The aim is to develop sensor technologies that capture a digital twin of the underwater world in real time and create Gaia-X-compatible structures for data processing. A feasibility study at Fraunhofer IGD's Ocean Technology Campus is driving this project forward.

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Offshore Wind Energy

Offshore wind farms are crucial for climate neutrality. Marispace-X is developing solutions for collaborative data collection and efficient asset handling. The aim is to create data-driven applications and trusted data spaces to improve the efficiency of offshore wind farms. This includes tools for data collection and analysis as well as empowering end users for long-term data management.

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Munitions in the Sea

There are over 1.6 million tonnes of old munitions in German waters, which requires new, intelligent ways of analysing and managing data. The use case strives for improvements through cloud, edge and fog computing to make munitions clearance more efficient. This includes the integration of intelligent analyses in a secure cloud environment and the Gaia-X-compliant implementation of identity and trust services.

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Biological Climate Protection

Marine plants have a high CO2 storage capacity, and the use case aims to determine and optimise the CO2-saving potential of macrophytes. The aim is to improve the CO2 storage capacity of the oceans through new analysis methods and AI-based predictions. This includes the use of sensor fusion from optical remote sensing and acoustic underwater data.

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Critical Infrastructure

The collection, exchange and analysis of large volumes of maritime data play a crucial role in the monitoring of critical underwater infrastructure. This project aims to develop a secure and reliable data ecosystem for the handling, analysis and sharing of underwater data, based on the concepts and technologies of Gaia-X. Its ability to facilitate the sovereign exchange and correct use of mass marine data from a wide range of sensors plays a vital role.

 

Our Contribution

north.io GmbH is responsible for the development and provision of the data space. The focus here is on the processes of data procurement and data management. north.io is also responsible for the development of a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application layer that processes and analyses sensor data and facilitates access to and analysis of the data. This ensures that the application is specifically tailored to the various use cases to meet the needs of the users.

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The Marispace-X Consortium

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