Japanese shipping major Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) has teamed up with IT-support company TIS, and Miotsukushi Analytics, a consulting firm that specializes in data analysis , to develop a draft survey application that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI).
The application uses AI to recognize water surfaces and draft marks from smartphone-captured images. The application then eliminates the influence of waves, providing an accurate draft level measurement directly on the screen. This breakthrough in draft measurement technology led the trio to collectively file a patent application for their creation in late July.