Orca AI has recently unveiled the BerthView mooring assistance solution developed in collaboration with Samsung Heavy Industries. This solution is a combination of Orca AI's SeaPod digital surveillance system and Samsung Heavy Industries' SVISION mooring assistance system, helping to create a continuous layer of AI-based situational awareness from open waters to the final stages of mooring.
Development of Strategic Collaboration
This unveiling is a sign of the progress of the strategic collaboration between Orca AI and Samsung Heavy Industries, announced in April 2026. This collaboration has now reached a stage where it provides a commercial solution for ship owners and operators.
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BerthView is offered as an installable solution on active service vessels, allowing advanced navigation and automation capabilities to be added to both new and existing fleets.
Enhanced Situational Awareness
The navigation needs significantly change as a vessel approaches the port. Traffic increases, maneuvering space becomes limited, and bridge teams have less time to assess changing situations. In these conditions, close operations require very precise awareness of the vessel's surrounding environment.
Orca AI's SeaPod uses AI and computer vision to identify and assess navigation targets and hazards from open waters to busy coastal areas and near the port. As the vessel enters close operations and moors at low speed, BerthView adds a dedicated perceptual layer.
Fisheye cameras mounted on the bridge wings provide a 360-degree view of the vessel and its surroundings. Meanwhile, visual guides for distance and virtual safety boundaries help the ship's teams assess available space and distance from nearby vessels, dock walls, and other hazards.
This new solution not only provides bridge teams with a continuous image of the vessel's operational environment but also connects navigation events directly to FleetView – Orca AI's cloud-based platform for fleet safety and operations. This allows shore teams to identify recurring hazards, investigate incidents, and use real events as a basis for structured training for crews and fleet learning.
This unveiling is based on a memorandum of understanding signed in April 2026 between Orca AI and Samsung Heavy Industries to combine shipbuilding technologies and SHI's autonomous vessels with Orca AI's AI-based navigation capabilities.
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