Smart Ocean Cloud Platform
Data and application services for marine data streams from underwater acoustic sensor networks
Get startedData spaces 🛡️
Uniform access to data and meta-data for historical time series data and external data sources.
Messaging 🚀
Publishing data and subscribing to real-time data streams from underwater sensor networks.
Edge integration📈
Integration with underwater sensor networks for providing marine data and exercising control.
Data consumers 🛡️
Systems comprised of end-user applications, dashboards, and interactive visual analytics.
Data providers 🚀
Systems providing marine data streams and data-sets for the platform data services.
Interoperability📈
Standardised cloud APIs, data and meta-data formats for service and application integration.
Security 🛡️
Identity management for authentication and authorization in relation to platform services.
Data quality control🚀
Automated assessment of data quality, measurement quality, and data integrity.
Monitoring📈
Metrics and key performance indicators for platform observability and data stream status.
Featured Applications
Digital Twin for Optimising Acoustic Communication
HVL and Bouvet has jointly developed a digital twin targetting the optimization of compression algorithm for acoustic underwater communication.
Smart Ocean Data Explorer
Data sets from the Austevoll test site can be explored via the Smart Ocean Enlighten Data Explorer developed by NORCE.
Norwegian Marine Data Centre
A selected data set from the Austevoll test site has been made available via the Norwegian marine Data Centre.
Featured Components
Data model for time series data
Interoperability is a central aspect of the SmartOcean platform which provided data provision and consumption via standardised REST and MQTT cloud APIs, and data and meta-data formats for service integration.
Work is ongoing on standardising a data- and meta-data format for the SmartOcean platform to be used both internally in the platform and for exposing data. The figure below shows the current …
January 13, 2026
Data space service for historical time series data
The SmartOcean data space service provides uniform access to platform data services and external data sources. The data streams of the core messaging service are forwarded into time series collections for longer-term storage
The data space service which currently uses the MongoDB cloud-based storage and provides an internal provider REST API for storing data and an external data consumer API for …
January 14, 2026
Messaging service for real-time data streams
The messaging service of the Smart Ocean platform supports publishing data and subscribing to real-time data streams
The messaging service is based on the publish-subscribe paradigm and the MQTT protocol. In this paradigm, data providers publish data topics while data consumers subscribe to topic in order to receive data published on the topic.
The messaging service is comprised of two HiveMQ MQTT …
January 14, 2026