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Jann Wendt updates Vice Chancellor Habeck on Marispace-X at Hannover Fair

Admin Apr 19, 2023

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Jann Wendt updates Vice Chancellor Habeck on Marispace-X at Hannover Fair

Vice Chancellor Habeck received a progress update from north.io CEO Jann Wendt of Europe's largest commercial maritime digitisation project and the innovative power of the maritime sector.

The Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economics and Climate Action, Dr Robert Habeck, visited the Marispace-X booth on 18 April during his tour of the Hannover Messe to find out about the progress of Europe's largest commercial maritime digitisation project and the innovative power of the maritime sector.

Habeck was welcomed by north.io CEO Jann Wendt (36) initiator and coordinator of Marispace-X, and Dr Maria Barros Weiss, VP of Digital Ecosystems Solutions at cloud provider IONOS.

"After your decisive support of the project as a sponsor," said Wendt in his welcome address, "we are very pleased to be able to present you with the first results of our maritime digitalisation project Made in Germany".

Wendt gave the Minister a live demonstration of a future cloud solution for a secure and integrated maritime data space and presented concrete maritime use cases, including the integration of autonomous systems in Marispace-X and their importance for the protection of critical infrastructures at sea. Mr Wendt emphasised the importance of the ability to integrate live data into Marispace-X.

Live monitoring data of munition dump sites through the Xplotector can be uploaded directly into the Marispace-X dataspace To illustrate the "munitions in the sea" use case, a mass spectrometer in a measuring buoy was shown on the stand, which will make it possible in future to continuously take water samples from the sea, analyse them on site and check them for contamination.

‍The collected data can be uploaded directly into the Marispace-X data space, aggregated with other sensor data and visualised directly, for example as a decision-making aid for future clearance decisions. In addition to gaining new insights, this approach will also save a lot of time and money compared to previous measurement methods, explains Wendt, an environmental geographer.

To illustrate the "munitions in the sea" use case of Marispace-X, an Xplotector mass spectrometer in a measuring buoy was shown at the fair.

In the 'Biological Climate Protection' use case, led by the University of Kiel, Marispace-X will enable the fusion and analysis of large amounts of different sensor data in the secure cloud to determine the optimal conditions for the targeted planting of seagrass meadows off the German coast for CO2 sequestration.

The Minister was impressed by the innovative technology and its potential applications in the maritime industry: "Marispace-X is of great importance to us in moving the maritime world forward." At the same time, Habeck asked what policymakers could do to support the maritime industry and further accelerate maritime digitalisation, which is urgently needed to combat the energy crisis and climate change.

Background to Marispace-X

Marispace-X is a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection in the context of Gaia-X. The goal is to build a maritime data ecosystem that allows stakeholders from business, science, government and NGOs to securely manage, distribute and analyze data collected about and from the ocean based on European standards and values, and to use this data to gain new insights and develop new innovative solutions and services in the future.

By developing this digital ocean ecosystem, the project consortium addresses several key challenges of this decade, such as climate change, marine conservation and digital transformation through numerous practical use cases, including: Offshore Wind, Biological Climate Protection, Munitions in the Ocean, and the Internet of Underwater Things.

The project consortium is led by software developer north.io GmbH and cloud provider IONOS. Consortium partners in addition are the maritime Big Data specialist TrueOcean GmbH, Fraunhofer IGD, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Stackable GmbH and Subsea Europe Services, Kiel University and the University of Rostock. The involvement of numerous other international associated partners and maritime stakeholders ensures application-oriented development in all areas.

More information on www.MarispaceX.com and on Youtube