About the project
The density of maritime traffic and transportation of dangerous cargoes by ships in congested waters of the Baltic Sea has grown. This demands new solutions for safe navigation and clean shipping at the Baltic Sea. The MaDaMe project supports national authorities that are responsible for maritime traffic management in developing common, cyber-secure, digital transport infrastructure services in the Baltic Sea Region.The MaDaMe project aims to develop, pilot, and evaluate new digital information-sharing and messaging services for fairway navigation. These new digital services promote reliable information exchange. They are developed based on the IHO S-100 framework for digital services and products.
1. Digital Navigational Warnings – S124
2. Digital Aids to Navigation (AtoN) – S-125
3. Digital VTS (Vessel Traffic Services) services – S-212
The project utilizes MCP (Maritime Connectivity Platform) and SECOM to contribute to the cyber-security of the solutions. MaDaMe also utilizes, develops, and tests communication technologies for serving the targeted digital services, and establishing a connection between shore stations and vessels, enabling the data to be transferred during the pilotage stage of the project. The pilots will take place in simulators, and on board vessels operating in the Baltic Sea area.
On the standardization aspect, the development of these fairway services will add to the maturity of the technical product specifications of the respective services under the IHO S-100 infrastructure. Results from the development of such specifications will contribute to the ongoing efforts in international standardization organizations and bodies such as IMO, IHO and IALA. Furthermore, MaDaMe supports HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan s4 by offering harmonized e-navigation services.
Novia’s role is to provide the consortium with ship simulation bridge equipment, and an S-100 compatible ECS test environment for the pilotage of the developed digital services. Novia also supports the pilotage phase by collecting user experience information and evaluating the usability of the developed and tested solutions. In addition, Novia leads the dissemination stage of the project and ensures that the activities raise awareness on the possibilities that digital fairway solutions provide.
Ahmed Elhadi
Project Leader