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The Metals Company Enters Agreement with Kongsberg Digital to Develop Digital Twin of Deep-Sea Operating Environment Ahead of Polymetallic Nodule Collection System Test
The companies are focused on developing the world’s first digital twin for subsea nodule collection, a core component of a broader Adaptive Management System
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nThe companies are focused on developing the world’s first digital twin for subsea nodule collection, a core component of a broader Adaptive Management System (AMS) designed to enable sub-sea operations within targeted environmental impact thresholds\n\n\nThe planned AMS will generate data feeds from environmental and operating sensors, use machine learning to make environmental impact predictions and include an environmental dashboard for monitoring and reporting impacts\n\n\nA world-class provider of cloud services and digital solutions to the energy and maritime industries, Kongsberg Digital will adapt and connect its proven technology with The Metals Company’s nodule collection and environmental monitoring and data systems to enable safe and robust deep-sea operations\n\n\n NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nThe Metals Company (Nasdaq: TMC) (the “Company” or “TMC”) today entered into an agreement with Kongsberg Digital, a leading provider of high-technology systems and solutions for the oil and gas, merchant marine, defense and aerospace industries. In advance of TMC’s initial nodule collector drive test in the Atlantic Ocean planned for early next year and followed by full pilot collection system trials in the Pacific Ocean later in 2022, the parties intend to create a digital twin to enable 3D visualization of deep-sea operations in a dynamic dashboard for review by various stakeholders. The digital twin will integrate vessel information from the surface support vessel Hidden Gem with data collected from the pilot nodule collector robot and riser system, as well as data collected by independent scientists aboard a test monitoring vessel.\n\nOnce completed and validated, the digital twin will be a core component of TMC’s future Adaptive Management System [Watch Video]. The Company plans to build out its AMS as an iterative and predictive state-of-the-art system that will use environmental and operational data to enable TMC to keep its deep-sea activities within ecological thresholds expected to be set by the International Seabed Authority. The AMS will draw on expert opinion and machine learning to improve operational efficiencies and reduce the uncertainty of the environmental impact over time.\n\nGerard Barron, Chairman and CEO of The Metals Company, said: “Polymetallic nodules sit on the seafloor in complete darkness at 4-k...