Prepared by Peter Davies

Chief Technology Officer – Pole Star

© 2015 Pole Star

Our vision

Universal maritime

connectivity

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Our mission

is to enable the

“Internet of Things at Sea”

through the provision of

an assured Maritime

Cloud ecosytem (MCe)

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• 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?

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Density based spatial clustering

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Main shipping routes appear

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Stakeholders all have different challenges

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Jeff Bezos – Amazon circa 2002

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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

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API specific issues

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• 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

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• 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

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We make sanctions compliance look easy…

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…behind the scenes it’s complex

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• Ship details lookup and confirmation from IHSShip ownership and managers

• Port State Control inspection recordsInspecting Authority, Detained/No. Defects

• Last 90 days port entry details from ports databaseOFAC 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 listsUnited Nations, USA, EU, UK, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore

Smarter position information

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Smart Reporting

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Future integration of other data types

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Patterns and routes (8 ships over 5 years)

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Our current clients

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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

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Inmarsat position reports archive:

• 225 million ship position reports

• Dating back to 1998

• 150,000 daily Inmarsat

position reports

• Over 60% of the SOLAS

internationally trading

shipping fleet

Our 3rd party content

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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