Intelligent systems, robotics and artificial intelligence have now transformed more domains. Today, technical feasibility coupled with compelling economic benefits such as high returns in many areas has led to a growing increase in investment in automation areas.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, automation in the marine industry is one of the new and emerging technologies. It is expected that smart systems be applied in various maritime areas such as ship making, ports and marine transportation, safety and rescue, and offshore industries in the near future.

 Many major foreign companies have plans to make container vessels more intelligent by 2030. In addition, there is an extreme competition between companies to obtain the desired result in a faster pace. Many organizations and companies are developing infrastructures to make progress. The development of smart ports and high-bandwidth communications are among these infrastructures.

Currently, a great number of smart fleets have been produced in small sizes with a wide range of applications, such as oceanography, marine operations and research and exploration. It can be said that there has been a turning point in the maturity of the intelligent marine industry and the growth of drones in recent years. Nevertheless, it is essential to look at the deeper insights of the challenges of this technology in the offshore industry on job creation, skills, and all its social and economic aspects.

Therefore, a group of foreign experts has defined the trend of global marine technologies using specialized data and future studies methods, according to which the attitude of the group is toward the future of technologies that may be presented by 2030.

The marine knowledge-based industries and technologies development headquarter has aimed to translate the studies with title of “future of marine technologies-smart systems” with regard to the role of smart system technology in transformation of future of marine industries. In this book, it is tried to evaluate the technology of smart systems in marine industries and trend of their development by 2030.