Big data and industrial Internet of Things for the maritime industry in Northwestern Norway

Big Data Analytics (BDA) and Internet of Things (IoT) are rising quickly. The recent emerging Industrial IoT (IIoT), a sub-paradigm of IoT, focuses more in safety-critical industrial applications. Studies showed that the adoption of BDA increase companies' output and productivity; IoT enables companies to have more information and control in physical resources, processes, and environments; BDA and IIoT complement each other and develop as a double “helix”. In this position paper, we briefly review the opportunities and challenges in this era of big data and IoT for the Møre maritime cluster; then we propose a new framework integrating BDA and IIoT technologies for offshore support vessels (OSVs) based on a hybrid CPU/GPU/FPGA1 high performance computing platform. We believe that such a framework, when implemented, can help maritime companies increase their output and productivity, and hence enable the whole cluster to continue to be a leader in the global maritime industry.