SmartBay Ireland

SmartBay Funding Structure & Partners

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Triaxys Graph Triaxys Data

Data Portal

SmartBay Ireland Data Delivery Portal

• Subsea floor cable of 5km to

support subsea nodes with 400v

power and high speed

communications via optical fibres

• The nodes can host a

complement of client sensors

which can be tested and

demonstrated in near real time.

• Data will be available to users

through a dedicated web portal

and further analytics can be

applied to the data collected for a

variety of user applications

Cabled Subsea Observatory

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System Tenders:

• Ductwork

• Land based cable burial

• Cable End Equipment

• Wet mate connectors

• Dry mate connectors

• Telecoms Cable

• Shore station renovation and fit-out

• Cable deployment personnel, divers and

equipment

• Cable Lay Vessel

• Instrumentation

Infrastructure – Cabled Observatory

Cable Installation Vessel: RV Celtic

Explorer

Planned Installation – April 2015

Cable End Equipment Specifications:

• 4 electro-optical interfaces for

expansion and special high-

bandwidth installations

• 18 “science” electrical interfaces

for sensors; 10 available for future

use, 5-4 of which equipped with

underwater mateable connectors

• One coaxial interface for video

signals

Deployments – Cable End Equipment

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Infrastructure – Gravity Foundation

• Gravity foundation has been

designed by Marine Technology

Ltd

• Modular design - allowing

easy installation and recovery

at sea (road transportable)

• Generic design - single base,

or as smaller sections to

make multiple point mooring

system

• Interconnection and locking

design to allow more (or less)

sections to be added or

removed

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Infrastructure – SeaStation1• Support up to 3 WECs Power

Dissipation

• Power flow– 3 phase for WEC generation

– Single phase for house power

– 400W house power for

– 15kW per WEC => up to 45kW in

total

• Telemetry– Minimum of 100 Mb/s

• Control– Ability to full control remotely

The goal of the NIAP programme is togrow the user base to encompassacademic research teams, SME’s, andMNC’s nationally and internationally.

• NIAP fund is available to enableresearchers to access the SmartBayInfrastructure

• Research proposals must fit under theobjectives of the SmartBay PRTLI Cycle5 programme

• Over 20 NIAPS have been awarded todate

• Call for larger NIAP Projects for 2015will open in the coming weeks

SmartBay National Infrastructure Access

Programme (NIAP)

• Re-design, adapt, marinise and ruggediseTyndall IMU's to be suitable fordeployment in harsh marine environments

• Deploy and maintain the MIMU's onSmartBay buoys

• Analyse and contextualise the datagathered and disseminate to SmartBaystakeholders

• Integrate next generation technology intoexisting infrastructure available through theSmartBay program to achieve economicimpact in the marine sector

Deployment and Analysis of Smart Inertial Measurement Units

(IMU) in a Marine Environment (MIMU) - Dr Brendan Flynn

• Objective: to operationalise ahigh resolution underwater soundrecorder as a node in the nationalnoise monitoring network

• Deployment of an acoustichydrophone on the SmartBaySmartbuoy outside Cork harbour

• CMRC in Cork - ResearchersGerry Sutton, Thomas Folegot,Mark Jessopp

• NIAP will develop practices thatestablish Ireland as world-leaderin noise monitoring

Developing a Primary Node in the National MSFD

Underwater Noise Monitoring Network

• PROPOSED NIAP

• Objective: to monitor and trackAtlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)in Galway Bay

• Deployment of up to 13receivers which would beseabed mounted at ~500mintervals across the length ofthe bay

• Status: A NIAP application for2015 has been submitted andwill be evaluated by a panel ofindependent evaluators

Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) – Galway Bay

Logistics and Security Fishing & Aquaculture

Env. Monitoring Offshore Wind

Marine ICTWave Energy

SmartBay - Working with Industry

Shipping Oil & Gas

The instruments currently deployed on the

buoy are:

• Triaxys directional wave measuring sensor:– Wave Conditions

• AirMar weather station:

– Weather Conditions

• Seabird SBE 37 CTD sensor:

– Water Measurements

• Teledyne Workhorse (ADCP)

• Fish Tracking Receiver (OTN - CMRC)

Working with Industry – Port of Cork

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Deployments – Technology from Ideas

Project Update

• Moorings Deployed on-site

• Component failure in stormconditions

• Device Recovered Successfully

• Upgrade of components

Project ‘next steps’:

• Sinkers on-site recovery

• Re-deployed with reconfiguredmooring system

• Steel wire bottom section

Provision of technical & operational support to TfI for the trial

& validation of novel elastomeric moorings

Device:

• Serial interface allows the user to

acoustically “pair” two uComm

modems and then use them as a

data link similar to a serial cable

connection

SmartBay Field Test:

• Integration, setup and bench test

of device

• ADCP deployment

• Monthly reports

• Final report

Field Evaluation Programme for uCOMM Acoustic Modem

Working with Industry – Sonardyne

EMSAT :

• Provide continuous, timely,

actionable access to

environmental data

visualization and analytics.

• Solutions to real-time data

monitoring challenges

SmartBay Collaboration:

• Potential collaboration

using SmartBay data to

develop data analytics and

visualisation

Working with Industry – EMSAT

Planned WEC Deployments for 2015:

• Expressions of Interest (EOIs) and associated email sent to 28 WEC developers

EOIs Sent

Irish

European

International

EOIs Received

Irish

European

International

• Expressions of Interest (EOIs) received from 11 WEC developers

Device:

• Seaformatics Pod is a technology

that uses a patented underwater

turbine which harvests power

from low speed ocean currents to

recharge its battery pack.

• The Pod allows for longer

deployments, without the

challenge of frequent battery

changes.

• The Pod's design enables long-

term, real-time and wide-area

monitoring of ocean parameters

from a variety of sensors.

Proposed Galway Bay Deployment

Canadian Collaboration – SEAformatics

Device:

• Each SeaWEED™ unit consists of four modules that are connected by rigid

truss structures.

• The four module array includes a non-energy producing nose module in the

front, followed by two energy producing modules, with another non-energy

producing module at the rear.

• The movement of the modules rising and falling over passing ocean waves drive

on-board hydraulic rams that feed electrical generators

Potential Galway Bay Deployment

Canadian Collaboration – Grey Island Energy

Supports to Users of the Facility

Funding Application

Pre Deployment Preparation

Mooring specification

& Configuration

Data Acquisition

Mobilisation Deployment

Operations & Maintenance

Demobilisation & Decommissioning

Validation

Steel Fabrication, marine equipment and engineering services

• Pat Rynn Engineering

• Purcell Marine

• P&O Maritime

• Swan Net-Gundry Ltd

Vessel Hire Services

• ATNO Marine

• Tarrea Queen (Ard Precision Ltd)

• Eachtrai Aigean Teoranta

• Rossaveal Port Services (RPS Marine)

Diving Services

• Nick Pfeiffer - MERC Consultants

• Ocean Crest Marine (OCM)

Sub Sea Cables

• Fibre Pulse - Castlebar

Wireless communications

• Brendan Minish - Wireless Consultancy services

• HEANET

• Air speed - Backhaul Communications via HEANET

Local Impacts and Benefits - Snapshot

SmartBay Ireland

Technology from Ideas

JFC

Intel

Shimmer

Port of Cork

SAP

Dubai Ports World

JOSPA

Shannon Foynes Port

Company

AlbaTERN

RealSim

IBM

MAERSK Shipping

National Space Centre

Industry Engagement - Snapshot

Canada – Ireland Collaboration

1st non-stop transatlantic flight

• Alcock and Brown

• June 1919

• St Johns – Clidfen, Galway

1st point-to-point fixed wireless service

connecting Europe with North America

• Guglielmo Marconi

• 17 October 1907

• Glace Bay - Clifden

At peak times, over 400

people were employed

by the Clifden wireless

station

Thank you!

Diarmuid O ConnorStrategic Funding & Project Co-ordinator