Three and a half years after its merger in September 2013, DNV GL's CEO Knut Orbeck-Nilssen heralded a "new and exciting phase in our development" with the unveiling of Veracity, a new Big Data platform at a briefing in February. Built using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, Veracity is designed to cleanse and manage the data generated by onboard sensors and ship systems to create controlled-access data sets that shipowners and operators can share with DNV GL itself and other stakeholders. It estimates that with as many as 15,000 different sensors onboard advanced vessels, the permutations of different sets will create up to 36 billion separate records. The ultimate aim is to produce an automatic analytic system that can detect anomalies before they may be obvious and to remove the need for calendar-based inspections. Moreover, "individual data sets can be enriched with other industry-wide data sets, providing benchmarks, newer and richer insights and analytics," said Orbeck-Nilssen.
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