Kongsberg Maritime (KM) is a Norwegian technology enterprise within the

Kongsberg Gruppen Kongsberg Gruppen is a Norway, Norwegian multinational company, that supplies High tech, high-technology systems to customers in the merchant marine, Defense industry, defence, aerospace, Offshore drilling, offshore oil and gas industries, and Re ...

(KOG). Kongsberg Maritime deliver systems for positioning, surveying, navigation, and automation to merchant vessels and offshore installations.Konsberg Maritime Products & Equipment Training
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dynamic positioning Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Position reference sensors, combined with wind sensors, motion sensors and gyrocompas ...

systems, marine automation and surveillance systems, process automation, satellite navigation, and hydroacoustics.

History

Kongsberg Maritime's history dates back to 1946. Simonsen Radio, later Simrad was founded 31. December that year. The first product was a radio telephone for the fishing fleet. The first echo sounder for the commercial fishing fleet came on the market in 1950. The first alarm system was ready in 1959. Kongsberg Maritime has over the years absorbed a number of well known maritime and offshore related companies, including: * Autronica * Consultas * Contros * Embient * GeoAcoustics * KonMap *

Kongsberg Mesotech Kongsberg Mesotech Ltd, based in Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada, is informally operated by Kongsberg Gruppen. Website Proff.no does not include the company on the lists of subsidiaries of Kongsberg Gruppen or Kongsberg Maritime. Mesotech make unde ...

* NorControl * Rolls-Royce Commercial Marine * Seatex * Simrad The parent company Kongsberg Gruppen was established on March 20, 1814 as Kongsberg Vaabenfabrik (KV) (lit.: "Kongsberg Weapons Factory") and in 2014 they celebrated 200 years in business.

Products

The main product areas for Kongsberg Maritime are: * Deck systems
Includes complete seismic back-deck systems, seismic cable control, marine and offshore cranes and helideck monitoring. *

Dynamic positioning Dynamic positioning (DP) is a computer-controlled system to automatically maintain a vessel's position and heading by using its own propellers and thrusters. Position reference sensors, combined with wind sensors, motion sensors and gyrocompas ...

systems
Control systems that make it possible to keep a vessel/platform in the same position under demanding weather conditions. *

Navigation system A navigation system is a computing system that aids in navigation. Navigation systems may be entirely on board the vehicle or vessel that the system is controlling (for example, on the ship's bridge) or located elsewhere, making use of radio or oth ...

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Radar, digital chart systems (ECDIS), steering systems and integrated navigation equipment for ship's bridges. * Hydroacoustics,

echo sounder Echo sounding or depth sounding is the use of sonar for ranging, normally to determine the depth of water (bathymetry). It involves transmitting acoustic waves into water and recording the time interval between emission and return of a pulse; ...

sonars Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on o ...

High technology hydroacoustic products for seabed surveying, subsea communication and positioning. *

Autonomous underwater vehicle An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) is a robot that travels underwater without requiring continuous input from an operator. AUVs constitute part of a larger group of undersea systems known as unmanned underwater vehicles, a classification tha ...

s & marine robotic systems
Free-swimming autonomous underwater vehicles characterized by great manoeuvrability and high accuracy for civilian and military use including the HUGIN Family of AUVs (HUGIN, HUGIN Egde, HUGIN Superior and HUGIN Endurance). Other marine robotic systems include the Sounder autonomous

Uncrewed Surface Vessel An unmanned surface vehicle, unmanned surface vessel or uncrewed surface vessel (USV), colloquially called a drone boat, drone ship or sea drone, is a boat or ship that operates on the surface of the water without a crew. USVs operate with v ...

(USV) for scientific and survey tasks, and Eelume, a free swimming resident robot for subsea inspection and observation operations. *Marine automation and surveillance systems
Systems for surveillance and for controlling engines, cargo and propulsion on vessels. *

Motion sensors A motion detector is an electrical device that utilizes a sensor to detect nearby motion (motion detection). Such a device is often integrated as a component of a system that automatically performs a task or alerts a user of motion in an area. T ...

GPS The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geol ...

, AIS and position reference systems
Automatic systems for recording vessel identification, position, movement and cargo (AIS - Automatic Identification Systems). GPS satellite positioning systems. *Naval systems
Acoustic monitoring and tracking systems, homeland security systems, naval sonars transponders and pingers. *

Sensors A sensor is often defined as a device that receives and responds to a signal or stimulus. The stimulus is the quantity, property, or condition that is sensed and converted into electrical signal. In the broadest definition, a sensor is a devi ...

and

transmitters In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmissi ...

Sensors to measure temperature, pressure, tank level, motion and dissolved gases. *Tank gauging
Systems to measure, monitor and control liquid cargos. *Underwater and harsh environment camera systems
Underwater cameras, imaging technology and products to the Offshore Oilfield, Scientific, Maritime and Naval sectors.

References

External links

Kongsberg Maritime official homepage

Kongsberg Gruppen official homepage
- Parent company
Simrad official homepage
- Subsidiary {{Portal, Companies Diver-detector sonars Electronics companies of Norway Manufacturing companies of Norway Defence companies of Norway Navigation system companies Radar Underwater security

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