[C-IoT Management] Pitch to Shell next week

[Geoff Merrett]

Following on from my previous email, these are the attendees:

Martje Wilbrew-Forster:

  1.  'Digital Project Manager' (within the Business) Which includes Product Owner for the Shipping Data Platform and Digital Programme Manager for overall Digital Strategy and Projects
  2.  As Steve beneath, interested to learn what has been successfully implemented in other industries. Specifically also in modelling of Commercial vs Operational / Performance Risk / Opportunity (especially as Shell has many 'hats' as charterer, operator, owner and player in innovation and project technology. Any projects around emissions / carbon footprint? Autonomous shipping?
  3.  Interested to learn more about how we can upskill the community in the do's and don'ts of Data Science (e.g. removing outliers, filling in data gaps, extrapolating data) and how we can take users on the journey ultimately leading to them trusting the tools more.

Steve Brown:

  1.  Manager, Innovation and Technology Implementation. ('Innovation Manager' will do!) I look after new technology development and deployment including some digital initiatives that stem from data analysis and the resulting insights.
  2.  From my point of view the main objective of the session is to answer Paul's questions in support of his strategy. Thereafter I have interest in tools that allow us to gain more insights from the data we receive. I am also keen to see how we can use data to inform technology decisions. When we met in London you did a great job of bringing a digital link to every theme. In particular, we spoke about human factors and technology that can measure stress.
  3.  I'm interested to explore subjects and technologies that you have applied in other industries and what you have learned. These are easy wins for our group if we can replicate these across to shipping.


Paul McStay:

  1.  I am the Value and Business Integration Manager in Shipping & Maritime and, from a digitalisation perspective, I own the digital portfolio for Shipping & Maritime.   This means that governance and IT budget spend for digital projects that drive value improvement (yield) for the Trading & Supply businesses that we serve, is managed through my team.
  2.  Some ideas:
     *   Data accessibility to the wider population irrespective of digital literacy (think the 'Google search engine' for Shipping & Maritime.
     *   Data cleansing / error checking (our biggest challenge).
     *   Potential disruption or horizon opportunities that may not be on our BAU radar.
     *   Would like to know what UoS can propose in this space?
  3.  More about UoS capabilities and leading-edge digital projects / technologies and use cases which may have application to us, specifically wrt Shipping & Maritime activities.   How do we remove the human from having to analyse the data

Professor Geoff Merrett
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Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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From: Geoff Merrett
Sent: 02 October 2019 14:22
To: c-iot-management at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: Pitch to Shell next week

I've got a 15 minute presentation to Shell next Tuesday as part of Gopal's Centre for Maritime Futures. They're apparently interested in the following:

They are interested in safety, clean energy, and efficiency:
- trading
- managing streaming data
- route optimisation and scheduling
- robust sensing for difficult environments
- monitoring for safety (on the bridge or in their tanks or in the docks)
- air quality monitoring around docks
- compliance and assurance
- CDT
- hiring interns and running hackathons.

The aim of the meeting is to identify and establish potential projects, that will hopefully turn into funded studentships or postdocs. Please send me a slide(s) by the end of this week if you have an potential project idea or current project that's of relevance (and of relevance to IoT).

Cheers,

Professor Geoff Merrett
Head of Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems<http://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/>
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ

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