After two years of work with Intel, Rolls-Royce is introducing a new Intelligent Awareness System to the shipping industry. The AI-powered system will serve as the "eyes and ears" of shipping vessels, bringing them one step closer to autonomy, according to Kevin Daffey, Rolls-Royce's director of engineering & technology and ship intelligence. The Intelligent Awareness System processes data inputs from LIDAR, radar, thermal cameras, HD cameras, satellite data and weather forecasts. With all of this data, a ship can maintain awareness of its surroundings, detecting objects as far as several kilometers away. All of of those inputs can generate up to a TB of data a day, Daffey said, which is stored on the ship using Intel 3D NAND SSDs.