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To new Helsinki test of independent navigation
It is realized by ABB and Helsinki City Transport
December 4, 2018
They are more and more frequent, in particular in North Europe, the tests in sea in order to experience navigation in independent modality on ships not equipped of crew and whose to proceed it is guided by sensors and systems of georeferenziazione or is controlled in remote modality from operators to earth. The second modality is used last week by the Helvetian ABB, group that is active mainly in the fields of the nets electrical workers, the industrial automation and the control of the movement, and from Helsinki City Transport, the society of public transport of the vital Finn, in order to guide the ferry fleeting Suomenlinna II that is equipped of systems of developed dynamic positioning from ABB and that it has carried out a test of navigation controlled from remote from the center of control of Helsinki City Transport to Helsinki leaving from the square of the central market of the city in order reaching an area of the port.
The experimentation, realized with succeeded full load, has been carried out without passengers on board and in a free area from other boats.
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