Digital twins | Digital ocean
At the forefront of digital innovation, Iliad creates advanced digital twins of the ocean, fostering a more sustainable marine environment. With 22 pilot sites addressing diverse challenges, Iliad’s technology empowers stakeholders, supports environmental initiatives, and aligns with the EU Mission Ocean’s vision for a healthier ocean by 2030
Right: A pilot as part of the project is looking at minimising waether-induced disruptions in harbours
THE LARGE-SCALE INNOVATIVE and ambitious Digital Ocean (Iliad) project is looking to pioneer the digital transformation of oceanic understanding and stewardship. The consortium, which was funded by the European Union under the €1 billion European Green Deal, includes fifty-six partners across eighteen countries from Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Below: Fisheries productivity is a key area of the pilot
Iliad is at the forefront of creating advanced digital twins of the ocean, which are virtual representations of marine systems. These digital twins of the ocean play a crucial role in realizing the vision of a more sustainable and well-preserved marine environment. They achieve this by providing among others, real-time, interactive access to integrated data, tools, and information. At the heart of Iliad’s mission is the goal of
strengthening the planning and decision-making processes in marine conservation, as well as in environmental and socio-economic domains. Through the use of digital twins of the ocean, Iliad aims to enable complex analysis, simulations, and predictive management scenarios. This empowers stakeholders and end-user groups with unprecedented foresight and adaptability to address challenges in the oceanic environment. As part of the project Iliad, partners operate 22 pilot
sites, where its innovative technologies are being employed to address different challenges all over Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The pilot digital twins, of which many have now come to the state of being a minimum viable Product (MVP) that can be demonstrated, showcase technology that has been developed in Iliad to facilitate interoperable twins that can exchange components to create digital twins of the ocean applications.
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The pilots’ key areas are: Coastal Sediment Transport – At Naissaar’s Port in Estonia, an integrated approach using physical measurements and hydrodynamic models will address sediment accumulation challenges in ports. Harbour Safety – A pilot in Varna Port demonstrates DTO technology in combination with augmented reality and citizen science with the objective to minimise weather-induced disruptions in harbour traffic and enhance navigation safety. Ballast Water Monitoring – Assesses invasive species risk in ballast water, aiding cargo ship sustainability and convention compliance in Spain. Fisheries Productivity – A Fishing Suitability Index improves fishing zone identification in the north- western Black Sea as well in the North Sea. Ocean Energy Potential – Harness tidal energy, with a focus on accurate models capturing kinetic energy in coastal channels and assessing tidal energy arrays. A similar approach is applied to wave energy.
Wind Energy – An interactive tool optimises offshore wind operations, especially Floating Offshore Wind turbines, while another one assesses the feasibility of operations linked to wind energy maintenance using Iliad’s data access to metocean data.
Jellyfish Swarm Forecast – Developing a Citizen- Science- data-based forecast and online map to anticipate jellyfish swarms, safeguarding ocean activities and mitigating economic impacts. Environmental, Water Quality and Pollution Monitoring – The pilot demonstrates new ways of environmental monitoring through a combination of multi-sensor platforms and ocean models as well as testing of new sensors for microplastic detection.
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