The vessel, built at SHM Shipyard Limited in Mumbai, features Accurate Industrial’s Intelligent Situational Awareness and Collision Avoidance’ (ISACA) tech stack, which has received Indian Register certification following sea trials in the Arabian Sea off Karwar, India.   Dharmesh Popatlal Gala, Accurate’s director of AI and robotics says that the ISACA system includes multiple situational awareness sensors including radar, GNSS, echo sounder, CCTV and a full collision avoidance stack. He said it achieved IRS AUTN 4-R(N) certification in line with the specific IMO International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGs) rules.   Gala adds that, following the successful trials Accurate is now receiving orders and interest for both new build and retrofit versions of the ISACA equipped boat for commercial and naval markets.   “This is an exciting moment for Accurate,” he said. “We have worked for more than 30 years in automation across the steel, auto and aerospace industries. We saw an opportunity to expand into marine around five years ago when we were working with the Indian army. We now see massive growth potential for our collision avoidance software and autonomous navigation solutions to be supplied at scale into Europe, the Middle East, India and beyond. We are seeing queries from navies and coastguards as well as port, habours and the offshore market.”   “As India is showing in space with the orbiter sent to Mars, India can innovate tech at a fraction the cost of other countries,” Gala said. “For that reason, we believe we have one of the most advanced and competitive autonomous navigation solutions available in the world. With the ISACA system we are aiming to democratize the cost of autonomous navigation solutions without compromising safety or performance.”   Gala says that ISACA-equipped vessels have significant advantages in comparison with traditional patrol boats that require continuous crewing and cannot maintain persistent awareness across large areas.   “Autonomous boats using the ISACA solutions can replace crews and provide 24/7 monitoring and persistent awareness at a fraction of the operational cost,” he said. “This matters more than ever in the naval arena where threats are changing and the nature of warfare evolving.   Gala added that Accurate has also built a smaller 5-meter autonomous SAR craft that it is also bringing to the patrol boat market with the full ISACA tech stack.

According to Accurate, the ISACA platform is directly compatible with Mercury, Cox and any CAN/MODBUS based propulsion systems and can also integrate non-digital propulsion employing appropriate actuators, enabling autonomous control of steering and propulsion of a wide class of vessels.