An Offline Map for On-Ship Navigation for Buffalo-Automation Buffalo Automation develops autonomous navigation technology for cargo ships and recreational boats. The company’s prime focus is to research on autonomous navigation in the marine world. One of their latest requirements had an unusual constraint of having a reliable, real-time navigation system that would run completely offline, while displaying visual data coming in from the various equipment onboard such as the real-time Radar, Lidar and AIS transreceiver. Hence, the challenge was to provide a browser-based application with Java and Python servers transcoding the data between the equipment and the application. Executive SummaryProblem Statement Buffalo-Automation is a US based startup who aim to build an Autonomous ship.

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