Swiss Ocean Tech wins Innovation World Cup at Hannover Messe

Swiss Ocean Tech, a small start-up company, has won the 14^th Innovation World Cup at Hannover Messe, the world’s leading fair in industrial transformation, celebrating the company’s innovative AnchorGuardian solution.

AnchorGuardian offers a new dimension of safety at sea by minimising the risk of anchor drag, providing predictions and triggering immediate alarms with sub-metre accuracy. The solution monitors the movement and position of a vessel’s anchor, delivering intelligent data to support the crew while laying and lifting the anchor. The patented technology operates independent of GPS and any movement of the ship.

The expert jury announced the World’s Top Techpreneurs 2023 during the Hannover Messe and based their decisions on the level of innovation, go-to-market approach, commercial potential and sustainability impact. The finalists were chosen from more than 400 submissions from 65 countries.

Thomas Frizlen, founder at Swiss Ocean Tech, said, “The focus of our efforts is safe anchoring. It says a lot, that this topic is the winner at an international industrial event. It shows that our solution is ground breaking, that it addresses a real pain and that it has a significant environmental impact.”

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