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Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc. was established in 1973 as a diversified ocean engineering and naval architecture company providing service in Hawaii and the Pacific. Today, Makai provides ocean engineering services worldwide and is a major supplier of submarine cable installation and planning software.
The ability to simulate, monitor, and control complex at-sea cable and array installations from a towed body has been a costly problem for the Navy and commercial ventures. The Navy's computer model was slow, complicated to use, and costly. The technology to solve this problem has been developed by Makai through its element location prediction (ELP) model. The ELP computes the position of the submarine relative to a very lightweight array deployed from an underwater towed body. Through numerical and computational evaluations of input data from deployed instrumentation, the ELP enables the cables to be laid accurately and straight, using relatively low-skilled personnel.
The military version of this technology is being used on ASW training ranges and in the SPAWAR's Advanced Deployable System (ADS) program for the U.S. Navy. Makai developed two commercial products based on this technology: MakaiPlan Pro and MakaiLay. They are being used by several telecommunication companies in the planning and real-time control installation of submarine cables from surface vessels. There are also some commercial geo-technical surveying applications. Makai received a $100K award from the National Defense Center of Excellence for its innovative research in ocean science related to this project.
Joseph C. Van Ryzin
Makai Ocean Engineering, Inc.
P.O. Box 1206
Kailua, HI 96734-1206
Phone: (808) 259-8871
Website: http://www.makai.com