SmartBay Ireland’s Smart Economy in Motion…. Paul Gaughan SmartBay Project Coordinator

Outline Marine Institute, Sea Change and Advanced Marine Technology Programme SmartBay Pilot Project SmartBay Industry and research collaborations SmartBay: Vision and strategic opportunity

Marine Institute Industrial development role. Environmental protection role. Confronted with challenging issues. Sustainable development of our marine and coastal resources.

The Marine Resource is one living, changing, interactive environment which needs to be looked at as an integrated whole. Fluxes Temperature Fish Plankton Waves Winds Sediment Groundrock Benthos Ocean Colour Hydrocarbons Contaminants Currents Nutrients Data Logging

SeaChange A European Strategy for Marine and Maritime Research A Coherent European Research Area framework in support of sustainable use of the oceans and seas. 3 rd September 2008 EU Sea Change: A Marine Knowledge, Research and Innovation Strategy for Ireland:

Advanced Marine Technologies 1. Create a critical mass, multi-disciplinary and industry-oriented research grouping in the field of sensors, intelligent systems and sensor platforms. 2. Create a focused capability in the application of advanced sensing and information and communication technologies to the marine and environmental sector. 3. Harness the synergies between the above to deliver innovative technology solutions to national and international markets.

Intelligent decision-based tools Convergence Next generation autonomous sensing Remote power and data comms Sensor to web enablement & system control Data storage, management and visualisation Technology Actions to Support The Smart Economy, 2009

Outline Marine Institute, Sea Change and Advanced Marine Technology Programme SmartBay Pilot Project SmartBay Industry and research collaborations SmartBay: Vision and strategic opportunity

In 2007 we decided to initiate a pilot project in Galway Bay.

Why Galway Bay? FishingShipping AquacultureEnergy LeisureResearch Diverse Maritime Activities Complex Environment Support Infrastructure

Why Galway Bay? Aquaculture Research Sensor Site Open Sea Trawler Fishing Flood Monitoring Bathing Marine Institute Wave Energy Site

Deployment and Installation of SmartBay Pilot Infrastructure Climate change Buoy, Mace Head SmartBay/Offshore Aquaculture Buoy, Mid Bay Onshore Test Buoy Waverider Buoy, Spiddle OE Test Site Tide Gauges, Inishmore and Galway Harbour Corrib River Flow Gauge, Claddagh Bridge

SmartBay Sentinel Buoy - MidBay

Outline Marine Institute, Sea Change and Advanced Marine Technology Programme SmartBay Pilot Project SmartBay Industry and research collaborations SmartBay: Vision and strategic opportunity

Pilot projects Integrated water management system Acoustic monitoring Chemical monitoring WiMax over water trials Biospheric

Portal Interface Analytics & Visualisation SmartBay Sensor Data Warehouse Mapping Object Tracking Weather Application Programming Interfaces Marine Institute Real Time Sentinel Buoys Weather Buoys Tide Gauges Wave Monitors HABS Sensor Feeds Advanced Phosphate Sensor Real-time Feed (MQtt) Advanced Phosphate Sensor (SMS) Phosphate Reference Sensor (Manual) Advanced Sensor Research and Development Beach Conditions News SMS

Real Time Information Sea Conditions

Test Site Spiddal, (¼ Scale) OE Device WaveBob

Industry - Ocean Energy Access to real time Wave Data Device developers can analyse real time wave data and apply complex algorithms via the portal interface. Wave energy power output can be accurately related to wave conditions over a time period. Supporting the development of a new industry

Public – Flood Monitoring Rapid analysis of six key indicators improves capability to predict flooding Stakeholders can set their own flood alert conditions. Users can be alerted via visual alarms, or SMS when the trigger conditions are detected. The value of this alarm system is that it can be personalized and cross referenced with other events

Research – Third Level Information gathering to support research activities. Enabler for a world class multi- disciplinary research effort in marine sensors and ICT Providing the latest outputs from sensors to researchers over the web. Ocean acidification studies at Mace Head site

Cetacean Tracking Biospheric specialise in acoustic monitoring Detecting the common cetacean species Compliment the current ‘marine mammal observation’ approach using hydrophone technology Challenges: Hydrophone deployment Large volume of data generated High Bandwidth requirements Biospheric

Cetacean Tracking IBM System-S software Stream processing of data sets Software algorithms to be developed for identifying species and tracking sounds. Analysis and visualisation of data

WiMAX Intel R&D efforts on advanced computing, communications, and wireless technologies as well as energy efficiency. Multi-thematic data sets require large bandwidth Pilot deployment of Mobile WiMAX across Galway Bay MI part of the HEANET Network - 1GB circuit in place Application areas: pollution and weather monitoring, fishing industry and tourism benefits. renewable Energy

3.6 km

WiMax Trial over Water

WiMax Trial Surface Plots

Chemical monitoring EpiSensor wireless sensor network developer Chemical sensing platform for phosphate monitoring Ruggedisation and long term deployment EpiSensor and IBM working on the development real-time, environmental monitoring solutions for energy, water and carbon management

Outline Marine Institute, Sea Change and Advanced Marine Technology Programme SmartBay Pilot Project SmartBay Industry and research collaborations SmartBay: Vision and strategic opportunity

Test and Demonstration Platform for Marine Technologies

Cabled nodes for power and communications Satellite communications Data processing, modelling and forecast. Wireless data communications Physical, chemical and biological sensing Engineering

HEA PRTLI Cycle 5 - A National Platform for the Development and Application of Emerging Marine Communications and Environmental Technologies (Strand 1b)

SmartBay Research Overview Marine and Environmental Science Advanced Sensor Technologies Information & Communications Technologies Climate change Fisheries and Aquaculture Marine Spatial Planning Next generation platforms for autonomous sensing Novel materials and strategies to prevent bio fouling Characterisation of marine atmosphere for free space optical communications Communications and agent-based middleware Sensor web enablement and service orientated architectures Geospatial data management and visualisation

Ocean energy test site SmartBay Infrastructure

SmartBay Roadmap

Joint Research Ventures – A Model for Sustainable Research Investment Joint Research Ventures inputs outputs IP Knowhow & patents Innovative products Spin-off companies Industrial development Industry Partners University Research Centres Service Providers Communities Funding Agencies Re-investment cycle

Engineering meets science in the Sea……

Opportunity for Ireland Technology Ocean Knowledge

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