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Built by a Collaborative Modeling and Simulation Team

Siyara is a research outcome of the Modeling and Simulation Group at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), initiated in 2008. The group brings together experts from UCSC, the Department of Physics of the University of Colombo, and the Sri Lanka Navy.

The collaboration has produced 30+ research publications and multiple national and international recognitions while advancing a sustainable culture of applied maritime research and development.

Siyara inspection and demonstration

Complete Product Background

Siyara is a real-time 3D Vessel Traffic Management System (3DVTMS) for commercial or large-scale ports and long coastlines. It combines a full-scale three-dimensional harbor or coastline environment with a conventional two-dimensional monitoring view. Operators can select viewpoints and perspectives within a 360-degree panorama and observe moving or static targets through PCs and mobile devices in real time.

The system supports planning port operations, safety concerns such as environmental impact of shipping accidents, and broader maritime security concerns. It tracks vessel movement, voyage-related information, and other operational facts while supporting a wide range of alarms and hazard warnings. The 3D view improves situational awareness, helps reduce human error, and increases operator efficiency.

Siyara was successfully deployed at Colombo South Harbour, and a slightly different version was deployed at Sri Lanka Coast Guard Headquarters in Mirissa for day-to-day operations. Sri Lanka Navy collaborated in the initial stage of the project and uses a forked version of Siyara.

Siyara development was based on the OGRE3D rendering engine, a scene-oriented and flexible 3D engine written in C++ for producing applications that use hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

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