Case Study: By The Ocean We Unite achieves safer, more efficient ship operations with Microsoft Corporation Azure and ABB's OCTOPUS solution

Ships use data from IoT and cloud solution to operate more safely and efficiently

By The Ocean We Unite, a Netherlands-based nonprofit focused on reducing ocean plastics pollution, needed a better way to manage and share data from its research voyages aboard the Fantastiko. Using Microsoft Corporation technology, including the ABB Ability Marine Advisory System — OCTOPUS with Azure, the team had to collect expedition data at sea and make it usable for onshore awareness and research efforts.

Microsoft Corporation helped enable a solution that let By The Ocean We Unite enter trawl findings onboard, sync survey results to Azure, and publish them directly to its website and social channels in near real time. The result was faster data sharing, stronger public engagement, and more efficient expeditions, allowing the crew to focus on science while Microsoft Corporation technology handled secure data management and distribution.

By The Ocean We Unite

Thomas van Thiel

Founder