Since the beginning of 2022, the Chair of Information Systems has been active with 8 other project partners in the Marispace-X project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection and building a data ecosystem for underwater data from the sea. This innovative project has gained international attention, as visible in a high-profile article in the journal Marine Technology Reporter. This article highlights the challenges and potential benefits of digital data ecosystems for the maritime industry. It also includes an interview with Prof. Kurt Sandkuhl.
The article can be found in the November/December 2022 issue on pages 50 to 57 and is available here.
The Marispace-X project
The goal of Marispace-X is to build a maritime data ecosystem that allows stakeholders from industry, academia, government, and NGOs to manage, share, and analyze ocean-derived data in a sovereign, secure, and efficient manner based on European standards and values. This interconnection enables new knowledge and the development of new innovative solutions and services for solving the grand challenges of our time.
With the development of this ocean digital ecosystem, Marispace-X addresses several key challenges of this decade, such as climate change, marine conservation and digital transformation through four practical use cases:
- Internet of Underwater Things: data-driven underwater technologies and sensor networks are the lifelines of the thriving, digitized Blue Economy of the future.
- Offshore Wind: Offshore wind farms are the key to climate neutrality - Marispace-X develops solutions for collaborative data collection, management and intelligent plant control.
- Ammunition in the sea: German waters alone contain over 1.6 million tons of old ammunition - new intelligent ways of data analysis and management are needed to combat the problem.
- Biological climate protection: Marine plants have high CO2 storage capacities - the use case will provide a basis for determining and optimizing the CO2 savings potential of macrophytes.
Marispace-X enables new directions in maritime Big Data processing and sensor data analysis via edge, fog and cloud computing. The consortium, led by IONOS SE, is coordinated by software developer north.io GmbH.
The Marispace-X project consortium is led by cloud provider IONOS SE and coordinated by software developer north.io GmbH. Further consortium members are the maritime BigData specialist TrueOcean GmbH, the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research (IGD), GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Stackable GmbH, MacArtney Germany GmbH, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel and University of Rostock.