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Team Italia continues to break exciting new ground with its leading-edge, fully-custom bridge systems. by Paola Bertelli And has now added its partnership with Rolls Royce and a new road map to the fray
T
he superyacht bridge systems that Team Italian is presenting
based on its I-Bridge ® and I-Chart® platforms which have evolved
these days are astonishingly advanced and futuristic. More
steadily over the years.
importantly still, they are increasingly integrated because as
“In Team Italia,” continues Minnella, “we never replicate the
Team Italia co-founder and CEO Massimo Minnella points out
same model, our bridges are unique, full-custom items born of
“integration is fundamental. The number of systems present
collaboration between owners, captains, the yards’ technical
aboard superyachts is growing all the time. It is one thing for a
offices and designers. Our work involves creating the best
captain to have to manage 20 different systems that all work in
possible integration that will satisfy not merely the technological
different ways and quite another to use 20 systems but manage
requirements but also ergonomic, elegance and exclusivity
them using the same human-machine interface. It is actually
expectations for the wheelhouses we work on without ever losing
a safety issue”. Team Italia was founded in 2000 and since
sight of the safety issue”. At this year’s Monaco Yacht Show, no
2003 has focused on optimising and integrating navigational,
less than five of the superyacht’s present were sporting Team
telecommunications, safety and data transmissions equipment
Italia systems, including Attila, a 64m Sanlorenzo which has the
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The bridge aboard the Columbus 80m Dragon (top) incorporates the Onyx Marine automation system which can also be remotely controlled and can not only be used for maintenance but also remote tests and controls. Right and bottom, the innovative I-Bridge with transparent Head Up Display superimposes data on the actual navigation view
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[ TECHNOLOGY ] Team Italia was founded in 2000 and in 2003 presented its first integrated systems based on its I-Bridge platform which it then evolved over the years. The Engineering and R&D Departments are the very core of the business and are flanked in their endeavours by the Design Office which guarantees a sleek, ergonomic look to the technologies which are used in a variety of different yachts
I-Bridge® and transparent Head Up Display. The latter allows
At the very core of the company are the Engineering and R&D
the real navigation scenario to be overlapped with the main
departments which are flanked by the Design Office.
information on courses, waypoints, and AIS/ARPA targets
Given the speed the modern tech world is changing at, R&D
as well as other safety-relevant data. Another was the 50m
is absolutely essential to evaluating the constant stream of new
Riva Race which uses the I-Bridge® with multicontrol and 4K
technologies coming from a variety of other sectors. The R&D
stretched display. Navigation is made easier too by the exclusive
department analyses, tests and then either approves or rejects the
Team Italia EMAS (Electronic Mooring Assistant System), which
latter: “Not all technologies are suitable for naval application.
processes data from laser sensors to simplify controlling the boat
There aren’t technologies created specifically for the nautical
when mooring. The Custom Line Navetta 42 with the integrated
sector. There are technologies and there are companies like
I-Bridge® with 36” 4K ultrastretch display and the Benetti 63m
ours who evaluate them and apply them to the nautical sphere if
Metis were other examples as was the Columbus 80m Dragon
they make the grade”. Team Italia’s latest step towards an even
which also boasts a system from Onyx Marine, a Team Italia
brighter future is its new partnership with Rolls Royce which
Group company specialising in automation systems.
aims to take integration to places it has either never gone before
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The Team Italia systems are all custom-made. Above, the integrated I-Bridge® aboard the Custom Line Navetta 42 has a 36” 4K ultrastretch display. Right, the bridge aboard Metis, the new 63m from Benetti
or not been fully exploited. “We designed a development road map with Rolls Royce on a single platform from which all the onboard systems from navigation to automation can be managed, including propulsion and data management in the cloud. This will facilitate all vessel management activities including analytics which are vital to the engineering divisions of the yards themselves,” concludes Minnella. This news opens up a whole new world in which Team Italia and Rolls Royce are well ahead of the crowd in honing exciting technologies that will set the pace in the coming years. The first developments will be revealed in 2020 in the form of the MTU SmartBridge developed by Team Italia for Rolls Royce.
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