IRELAND & SCOTLAND PROJECTS FEATURE
GALWAY BAY (¼ SCALE) TEST SITE The Galway Bay test site is an ideal base for ¼ scale wave and wind energy devices as it provides an excellent oceanic wave regime, sheltered harbour facilities and the renewable, maritime and environmental expertise that exists within the area. The ¼ scale test site allows smaller scale devices, or those at an earlier stage in their development, to gain sea experience in less challenging conditions than those experienced at the full-scale wave and tidal test sites.
The buoys can host a variety of communications protocols including; GPRS, Satellite, VHF, Wimax, GSM, 3G, Wi-Fi. The buoys have a high performance / low power data acquisition and transmission system and a large power capacity for hosting multiple sensors. SmartBay buoys are of robust construction and have a high stability in operation.
The sub-sea cabled observatory includes; fibre optic data and 400v power cable, high speed communications via 10 pairs of optical fibres and a sub-sea cabled sensor platform which will host of variety of sensors and equipment which can be tested and demonstrated in near real-time.
The cabled observatory will include a range of ‘off-the-shelf’ sensors and equipment including; a CTD, ADCP, Hydrophone, HDTV and Nutrient Monitoring sensors. Dedicated ports will be allocated for the
Ancillary power and a range of wireless communications are also available on site. Wave energy devices that have been successfully deployed at the test-site since its inception include WaveBob and Ocean Energy.
Infrastructure BUOY NETWORK
SmartBay operates a fleet of Mobilis DB5800 buoys used for testing a range of environmental and meteorological sensors. The data generated by these sensors is transferred back to SmartBay headquarters via a variety of wireless communication options and onto users globally through the SmartBay online portal.
SUB-SEA CABLED OBSERVATORY Science Foundation Ireland has facilitated the acquisition and installation of an underwater cabled observatory which will run from Spiddal to a distance of 4.5 km east of Spiddal pier, Galway Bay and which will be operational by the end of 2014. The cable will terminate at an underwater node which will provide power to, and collect data from, underwater sensors which will be connected to the sub-sea observatory. The cable will also be connected to a large power buoy which will be used to feed additional power to, and dissipate power from, prototype wave energy devices which are being tested at the ¼ scale ocean energy test site.
testing of prototype sub-sea sensors and equipment.
HORIZON 2020
SmartBay Ireland as an SME is looking to collaborate in Horizon 2020 through any marine based or marine section of a call from ICT, software development to marine trial and demonstration. We are keen to talk to potential partners and to explore research opportunities from a H2020 perspective.
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