Ship&Offshore | Issue 03/2023
Shipyard group and sensor start-up to collaborate
Damen Shipyards Group and Utrecht-based start-up company, Sensing360, are to collaborate on using sensor technology to raise the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of ships. The sensor company uses photonics – the interaction between light and electronics – to collect more data, the companies explained in a statement. As many as 20 of these optical sensors can be incorporated in fibre optic cables no thicker than a human hair. This simplifies data gathering in places that are difficult to reach or dangerous....