Operational Visibility for Modern Shipbuilding
One platform. Every wireless technology. Complete chain of custody from receipt through ship installation, delivered to the systems your teams already use.
The Challenge
Your shipyard isn't connected.
Production targets are rising. A new submarine or ship demands hundreds of thousands of parts and thousands of assets moving across fabrication shops, staging areas, open yards, and inside the hull. Materials, machines, tools, environmental conditions, and compliance data all live in blind spots. Teams lose hours to questions the data should already answer.
What We've Learned
Working alongside shipbuilders
- One technology never fits one campus. Fabrication shops, open staging, warehouses, and inside the hull each have different RF behavior. A solution built for one environment fails at the next.
- Steel density changes zone by zone. Mapping technology to zone matters more than picking a single winner for the whole yard.
- Scale is the real test. Tagging fifty high-value items is not the same problem as tracking thousands of WIP parts, consumables, and tools across a large campus.
- Legacy systems stay. Existing sensor infrastructure, enterprise platforms, data lakes. We integrate alongside what you already run. No rip and replace.
How Thinaer Delivers
One platform, every technology
- Hardware-agnostic by design. BLE, UWB, RFID, GPS, LoRaWAN, deployed zone by zone. Your environment decides the hardware, not the vendor.
- Sonar visualization. Live asset map, search any asset in seconds, automated alerts for wrong zone, idle equipment, and missing material.
- AWS GovCloud, IL5-aligned. Built for the defense industrial base, with the security posture your programs require.
- Your data, your AI. Structured, API-ready data feeding the analytics and AI tools you already use.
Results Shipbuilders See
Continuous visibility, zone by zone
Continuous chain of custody from receipt to ship installation
Material search results in seconds, not hours or days
Automated alerts for dwell time, zone mismatch, and missing inventory
Equipment utilization visibility: cranes, welding machines, tools
Structured, API-first data feeding the systems and tools you already use
Phased Deployment
Three phases. Each a unit of work delivering value before the next begins.
Phase 1
Connect
Asset tracking foundation. Stand up the platform in one area. Go live in weeks, not quarters.
Phase 2
Visualize
Scale the mix. Extend coverage across asset classes. Expand without re-platforming.
Phase 3
AI
Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, throughput modeling. All running on your own structured, API-ready data, ready for the AI tools you choose.
Why Thinaer
Differentiators that matter in a shipyard
A&D experience at production scale
Deployed across aerospace and defense production environments. Multi-site, multi-year programs. The constraints of industrial A&D deployments are familiar territory for our team and our platform.
Structured data, AI-ready, yours to own
API-ready data, delivered to the systems you already use. Your data, your AI. Not locked in a vendor SaaS.
Full deployment services
Site survey, cabling, gateway installation, beacon provisioning, commissioning, and project management. We can run the full install. Your team stays focused on using the data.
We close the hard part: getting the data
Device-to-cloud is where most industrial IoT programs stall. Our gateways, firmware, protocol stack, and network handling are purpose-built for industrial environments and the RF realities inside them.
AWS GovCloud environment
Deploy in GovCloud, commercial cloud, or on-premises. Your security requirements decide the environment, not the vendor.
One platform, every technology
BLE (40+ sensor types), UWB, RFID, GPS, and environmental sensors, all ingested into one normalized view. Hardware can evolve. The platform stays.
Let’s talk.
Reply to the email you received, or reach out directly. We can walk the floor with you, scope a phased deployment, and show Sonar in action on real shipyard data.