The availability of marine open data infrastructure has significant economic and societal potential for coastal nations to facilitate marine domain interoperability and the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) best practices for marine spatial data publishing on the Web. With the recent Indian directive on open data and the reuse of public sector information, IIC Technologies is ideally positioned to serve the Indian coastal and inland waterway segments in facilitating a continuous data capturing of spatial-temporal physical phenomena and human activities in coastal areas and riverbanks, doing the corresponding data analysis, and the decision- making for achieving continual improvement in the marine planning and management processes.
IIC’s global expertise can play a substantial role in digital government transformation (Digital India) for effective data sharing and offering marine services across various stakeholders. Such information can be utilized for the safe and efficient operation of maritime traffic, exploration and exploitation of resources, marine spatial planning (MSP), integrated coastal zone management (ICZM), inland transportation, environmental protection, and naval and maritime security.
“Blue economy is the next sunrise issue for development experts.”
Supporting blue economy
Blue economy is the next sunrise issue for development experts. IIC has invested in building Nautilus CloudTM, a Cloud-based infrastructure for marine data, solutions, and services, ideally suited for government organizations, commercial industry, and consumers. It uses open standards to build an agile system that is flexible and has a much greater degree of interoperability with pre-existing components. It is an enterprise- grade and fully scalable, native Cloud solution, which is platform independent, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant, and allows building end-user apps in a rapid mode.
Exploring new opportunities
In pursuance of the Indian map deregulation policy, we are fully geared to acquire very high-resolution terrestrial and aviation data worth several hundred crores to serve varied positive sectors, such as farming, mining, urban construction, smart cities, land records, infrastructure, aviation, services for e-commerce and communication like 5G, etc. IIC’s aircraft and sensors are already in deployment over the last decade serving these requirements, albeit with map policy limitations to date. The new guidelines usher in a greater demand for data, and markets will need to respond with solutions that have a direct bearing on the national economy. We are drawing plans to augment our capacities and position to meet these increasing needs and contribute to India’s vision of self-reliance.
We have been engaged by several nations like the UK, USA, Canada, France, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, and Norway in building and continuously updating their national marine and terrestrial geospatial databases. This expertise, combined with the use of modern technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, will introduce a range of smart solutions to cater to all consumers’ diverse needs.
