Prepared by Peter Davies Chief Technology Officer – Pole Star © 2015 Pole Star
Our vision Universal maritime connectivity 2
Our mission is to enable the “Internet of Things at Sea” through the provision of an assured Maritime Cloud ecosytem (MCe) 3
Integrate new data sources to drive value Smarter position information Risk-responsive tracking Integrating sanctions data Future integration of other data types Why big data? 4
Density based spatial clustering Before 5
Main shipping routes appear 6 After
Stakeholders all have different challenges 7
Jeff Bezos – Amazon circa All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. It doesn’t matter what technology they use. The team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world. No exceptions.
API open to the industry 9
API specific issues 10 Support - Access to the experts who created the API Security - Dealing with potential DOS attacker requires service levels, quotas and throttling Monitoring / QA - Smart tools for not just telling if something is up and running, but actually delivering the expected results SLA/Uptime – Scaleable and load balanced to ensure reliability
New architectures 11 Separate services Data updated independently Scaled to meet demand Hardware independent positions Mix and match onboard devices Accept different data components from different sources Agnostic deployments Amazon Web Services Vmware Assured Cloud
Example: sanctions compliance 12
We make sanctions compliance look easy… 13
…behind the scenes it’s complex 14 Ship details lookup and confirmation from IHS Ship ownership and managers Port State Control inspection records Inspecting Authority, Detained/No. Defects Last 90 days port entry details from ports database OFAC Sanction country, US Port Security Advisory, Ports in Crimea, Ports in Ebola affected countries Screen ship and associated entities against a comprehensive range of international sanctions lists United Nations, USA, EU, UK, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore
Smarter position information 15
Smart Reporting 16
Future integration of other data types 17
Patterns and routes (8 ships over 5 years) 18
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Our current clients 20 We provide services to over 2,500 clients and 100 international / government agencies We actively monitor over 36,000 ships daily on behalf of 1,100 shipping companies covering all trades, 44 flags and fisheries authorities in 45 countries and territories
Our proprietary content 21 Inmarsat position reports archive: 225 million ship position reports Dating back to ,000 daily Inmarsat position reports Over 60% of the SOLAS internationally trading shipping fleet
Our 3 rd party content 22 We process satellite-AIS data relating to: 150,000 vessels daily 700 AIS positions / sec 60 million AIS positions / day 5.4 billion position rolling 90-day archive Reference and intelligence data on 172,000 vessels Associated party risk & compliance watchlist data on 300+ ships, 15,000 companies and 25,000 persons