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Friday, 09.05.2025, 06:46
Skype founders make marine navigation safer and easier
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InkSpinTwo evolved under the wing of Ambient Sound Investments – the investments vehicle of the Estonians who founded Skype.
Arno Rannaste, the CEO of InkSpinTwo, explains that the competitive edge ot the technology is that it enables realistic two-dimensional real-time images of what's in front of a vessel underwater, even going high-speed, where the speed of the vessel is up to 20 knots.
Most of other similar technologies work only when the speed is low (maximum of seven to eight knots), and do not create real-time images, but late updates instead.
That makes navigation in difficult waters much more hazardous for a vessel's captain.
The Estonian sonar technology, developed by Estonian hydrography specialist Peeter Ude, has many competitors. For example, Reson, Kongsberg, Thales, BlueView, EchoPilot,. etc. InkSpinTwo aims to knock on the doors of the operators of hydrograpic, diving, excavation and underwater guarding works.
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