AI platform improves South Australian port operations

South Australia’s Department of Infrastructure and Transport is working with BMT on the Deep Blue project to develop a prototype of the adaptive dredging automated prediction tool (Adapt) platform to manage state harbours.

This tool collates data from autonomous vessels and metocean sensors to generate a digital survey of harbours, which is processed by artificial intelligence (AI) to provide predictive insights for future maintenance.

Adapt enables real-time environmental monitoring, pattern detection, anomaly identification and forecasting across diverse port and environmental datasets.

BMT said this helps port authorities to improve operational decisions, efficiency, safety and reduces dredging costs.