Ann Hitchcock, Autor auf 52°North Spatial Information Research GmbH

February 25, 2021

6 year contract to continue the European Data Portal

52°North is member of consortium awarded 6-year contract to continue the development of the European Data Portal

The European Union’s framework contract award highlights the strategic position of the project consortium in the field of Insights & Data to drive innovation across Europe

The Publications Office of the European Union has awarded a six-year framework contract to Capgemini Invent to continue the development of the European Data Portal and related consultancy and research work into a new service: Data.Europa.EU. It will combine the two European data portals, and their efforts towards facilitating open data publication and re-use in Europe.

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February 22, 2021

MariData Project – Improving Ship Energy Efficiency

The MariData project provides important contributions to improving the energy efficiency of ship operations and reducing emissions

Energy efficiency has always been a key concern for shipbuilding and shipping. Whereas economic reasons dominated the motivation to search for a low power requirement for ships in the past, ecological reasons and compliance with legal regulations to reduce emissions become increasingly important today. These demand a consistent strategy of energy efficiency as well as a significant reduction of exhaust emissions, not only during ship design and construction, but also during ship operation.

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January 20, 2021

MariData GeoPlatform and Routing – Project kickoff

Reducing the energy demand of ships

52°North was pleased to join the virtual MariData kickoff meeting on December 17, 2020. The project’s aim is to reduce the energy demand and hence fuel consumption of cargo ships. To achieve this, MariData will model and analyse a ship’s energy demand based on the environmental and physical conditions. These models will be incorporated into a routing to deliver goods on time along the path with the smallest energy demand.

We look forward to developing comprehensive technologies for energy efficient machine learning based (ML-based) routing alternatives. As of now, we have initiated the MariData GeoPlatform’s requirements analysis and collated modelling approaches. First concepts and options are already under evaluation for their suitability.

This project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).

December 17, 2020

Seasons Greetings!

We wish all 52°North software users, contributors, partners and customers happy and healthy holidays! 52°North would like to thank you for the successful collaboration in 2020.

Every holiday season we donate to a special cause instead of sending out christmas cards. This year our donation supports the Frühförderinitiative Tandem in Münster-Hiltrup.more >