MARLIN: An IoT Sensor Network for Improving Maritime Situational Awareness

Maritime situational awareness pictures are mostly collections of interfaces for particular sensors, showing a one-onone relationship between sensors and their interface. The internet of things has broken with this pattern, using unified and open interfaces on sensors and services to instead create modular, interconnected networks to handle the recording, processing and interaction of and with data.

The MARLIN project adapts these patterns to create a modern maritime situational awareness picture. This paper illustrates the structure and design decisions of this network, showing how modern web technologies can be used to rapidly create reliable and flexible situational awareness tools in the maritime domain.