MAST: Marine Asset Management Decision Support Tool
Introduction
The global marine sector generates and consumes vast quantities of operational and forecast data on a daily basis. One of the key challenges facing the sector relates to the management and transformation of that data into knowledge.
WP3 is focusing on the development of a web-based Marine Asset Decision Support Tool (MAST), to enable enhanced security, optimise operational efficiency and reduce cost of ownership for offshore marine operations.
MAST follows a mash-up philosophy and also uses publicly available and crowd sourced data. The Irish Marine Institute and SmartBay Ireland Ltd are provisioning data resources to MAST using brokering technologies based on open source standards. Using industry standard development tools, InTune Networks is leveraging an open source data broker to transform data into a portfolio of web-based services enabling decision support. A key objective of the MAST prototype is to demonstrate the potential of next-generation dynamic web-based products and services and how they can be harnessed to facilitate growth of both the marine and IT sectors.
The MAST prototype also demonstrates how through collaborative partnership in programmes such as FI-PPP, public agencies can support the development of private enterprise through the exploitation of open data.