About CT SYSTEMS BV
CT Systems BV stands out in the maritime industry by offering innovative, integrated solutions that combine advanced software with rugged hardware. Two flagship products—Viking Software and GeoDredge—exemplify this approach, providing precision, reliability, and efficiency for dredging, surveying, and offshore operations. Below, we highlight their key features, benefits, and synergies, drawing from the company’s expertise in delivering turn-key systems for challenging marine environments.
Viking Software: The Versatile Core for Maritime Positioning and Operations
Viking Software is a powerful, user-friendly platform designed to handle complex positioning, dredging, and survey tasks with a clean, intuitive interface. It performs all necessary interfacing and calculations seamlessly, making it ideal for professionals who need accuracy without unnecessary complexity.
Key Features and Benefits:
Ease of Use and Customization: Features a simple UI that’s easy to navigate, with modular licensing that allows users to add functionalities as needed. It’s fully customizable to fit specific project requirements. Single Platform for All Operations: Serves as a unified system for offshore positioning, hydrographic surveys, maritime construction, machine control, and dredging, reducing the need for multiple tools and streamlining workflows.
Modular Architecture: As detailed in prior overviews, it includes core navigation capabilities expandable via modules like Navigation, Single Beam I/O, Multibeam Echo Sounder (MBES), Excavator, Suction Tube, Anchoring, and more. These enable real-time data logging, 3D visualization, and integration with hardware such as echo sounders, GPS receivers, and magnetometers.
Applications: Widely used in dredging (e.g., for cutter suction dredgers and excavators), hydrographic surveys, and offshore projects, where it supports precise vessel tracking, data processing, and operational control.
Viking’s strength lies in its ability to integrate with hardware for end-to-end solutions, ensuring high precision in dynamic marine settings. It’s the software backbone that powers many of CT Systems’ hardware offerings, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency.
GeoDredge: The Rugged, All-in-One Dredging Solution
GeoDredge is a standout innovation—a unique, all-in-one ruggedized dredging computer that consolidates essential components into a single, durable housing. Powered by Viking Software, it delivers a complete, turn-key system for space-constrained environments, making it perfect for demanding dredging operations.
Key Features and Benefits:
Integrated Components: Includes an internal industrial computer, Viking Software, RTK GNSS heading receiver for precise positioning, GSM/LTE high-speed modem for connectivity, UHF transceiver for telemetry, and long-range Wi-Fi for seamless data sharing.
Rugged Design: Built to withstand harsh marine conditions, with all elements housed in a solid, waterproof enclosure. This ensures reliability on vessels or machines with limited space.
Interfacing Capabilities: Supports both analog and digital signals, enabling visualization of production meters, suction tube positions, and other critical dredging metrics in real-time.
Applications: Tailored for excavators, cutter suction dredgers, grab dredgers, wire cranes, dredging pontoons, and machine control systems. It’s ideal for projects requiring rapid deployment and precise control, such as rig moves or bubble curtain installations.
GeoDredge’s integration with Viking Software creates a synergistic system where software-driven insights meet hardware robustness, allowing operators to monitor and control dredging processes with exceptional accuracy and minimal setup time.
Synergies and Overall Impact
Together
Viking Software and GeoDredge form a total solution for dredging and offshore challenges, as emphasized by CT Systems’ role as a provider of integrated maritime technologies. Viking provides the intelligent processing and modular flexibility, while GeoDredge offers the hardware foundation, resulting in systems that are portable, precise, and adaptable. This combination has been successfully deployed in real-world scenarios, such as installing GeoDredge on excavators for enhanced machine control. For maritime professionals seeking efficiency and innovation, these products elevate operations to new levels of performance.
