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Greenroom Robotics highlights the effectiveness, cost-efficiency, and advanced technology behind its Lookout+ optical radar system, discussing its ability to enhance marine mammal detection and reduce vessel strikes.
Marine mammal presence in operational areas poses significant challenges to maritime operations, with vessel strikes being a major concern for various large whale species.
From 1970 to October 2016, nearly half of all documented North Atlantic right whale deaths were due to human-related causes, primarily vessel strikes and fishing gear entanglements. Despite mitigation measures, vessel strikes remain a significant threat.
Collisions and disturbances from vessel operations can cause serious injuries or death to marine mammals, disrupt migration patterns, and interfere with communication and feeding habits.
These incidents have significant repercussions for vessels, including unexpected delays, increased maintenance costs, potential legal actions and fines for environmental regulation non-compliance, and negative impacts on reputation.
This underscores a need for smart, effective detection systems for real-time monitoring and early warnings, ensuring marine life safety and smooth maritime operations.
Lookout+ Optical Radar System
Traditionally, marine mammal detection relied on human observers, which is labor-intensive and prone to human error. Advanced solutions involve high-tech camera systems, requiring significant investments and modifications to vessels, which can be cost-prohibitive and operationally inefficient.
Lookout+ offers a modern solution as a hardware-agnostic optical radar system designed to integrate with existing cameras on vessels. It eliminates the need for expensive hardware overhauls, providing a cost-effective and time-efficient solution.
Lookout+ leverages AI-powered perception, continuously improving through updated machine learning models to ensure reliable, round-the-clock surveillance. It can be installed on edge computing platforms or run from the cloud, delivering an intuitive web-based user interface accessible from any device, ensuring flexibility for various vessel requirements.
Traditional camera systems can require significant downtime due to complex installation, halting operations. Lookout+, however, requires minimal calibration time, allowing existing cameras to remain operational throughout the short integration process. During this process, Lookout+’s machine learning algorithm rapidly adapts to the camera, ensuring seamless and efficient setup.
By implementing Lookout+, vessel operators and maritime organizations can enhance operational safety and efficiency while contributing to marine life conservation. The system’s ability to detect and classify hazards and marine life significantly reduces the risk of vessel strikes, protecting whales and vessels from unnecessary damage.
By shifting the workload from humans to AI, organizations can reduce time spent on watchkeeping duties, allowing focus on more pressing tasks.
Lookout+ offers a practical, economical, and efficient solution to the challenges faced by mariners, reducing the risk of vessel strikes and ensuring the safety of both crew and marine life.
