National Test and Demonstration

Platform for Advanced Marine

Technologies

www.smartbay.ie

SmartBay Ireland• SmartBay Ireland is a not for profit company established in 2012

funded by the Programme for Research in Third Level

Institutions PRTLI Cycle V who will invest 3.8m over three years

• SmartBay Ireland is responsible for managing and operating a

marine test and demonstration platform for the development of

innovative products and services for the global maritime sector

National Capacity Build Marine ICT

2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2014 2015

Harnessing our Ocean

Wealth

Horizon 2020

Galway

Statement

• SmartBay facilitate the

development of

innovative approaches to

technology through

sensor deployments in a

real world environment.

Robust Configurable

Mobilis DB8000 Platforms

What We Do

• The Infrastructure can be

accessed by academic

researchers and industrial

organisations for test and

demonstration purposes

Marine Services

• Deployment• Future Iterations

• Marinisation• Assembly /Integration

Pre deployment

scoping and

planning

Bench Test of

Equipment

Field test/trial

Post Deployment

1. 2.

3.4.

ICT Services

• Middleware• Data Visualisation

• Data Management

• Data Capture

Real-time streaming data

capture - multiple sensors, multiple

datasets

Storage and parsing of raw

data

Data converted into multiple

formats - csv, json, mat, kml,

- Access to current wind,

wave & weather data - Data analytics

1.2.

4. 3.

SmartBay National Infrastructure Access

Programme

• The goal of the NIAP programme is to

grow the user base to encompass

academic research teams, SME’s, and

MNC’s nationally and internationally

• NIAP fund is available to enable

researchers to access the SmartBay

Infrastructure.

• Research proposals must fit under the

objectives of the SmartBay PRTLI Cycle

5 programme

• 20 NIAPS have been awarded to date

• Evaluations of Larger NIAP Projects for

2014 recently completed

National Infrastructure Access

Programme (NIAP)

•Supporting researchers to engage with SmartBay where it facilitates their research;

•Small integration projects €2k;

•Travel grants;

•Co-funding for IRC grants – under the International SmartOcean Graduate Enterprise Initiative (ISGEI)

•Co-funding for EU projects using SmartBay;

•Larger projects – up €25k (2013/14)

•Evaluation panel for applications & projects hope to fund the top 4 ranked proposals

NIAP Research Themes

•Oceanography & Related Bio-chemistry

•Fisheries & Aquaculture

•Novel Marine Technologies

•Testing and Demonstrating of new sensors

Edel O Connor

MultiSens: An Investigation into Satellite Remote Sensing Products in Galway Bay DCU

James Chapman Antifouling – deployment of test materials DCU

Lorna Fitzsimons Optical Colorimetric Sensor (OCS) DCU

Stephen Nash

CODAR Surface Current Observations in Galway Bay - Data Management NUIG

Stephen Nash

CODAR Surface Current Observations in Galway Bay - Data Validation

NUIG

Daniel Toal

Long endurance observation mini ROV system for remotepresence and monitoring in SmartBay UL

Liam Miller Marine Archaeology site Monitoring Slt Systems Ltd

Paul McAvoy

Stabilisation of data buoy for communication links using elastomeric moorings TFI

Dermot Diamond Smart Bay Data Fusion – In-situ Sensor Networks DCU

Tim McCarthyLawrence Gill

SmartBay Data Fusion

Quantifying groundwater flow into Kinvara BayNUIM/TCD

NIAP Projects 2012/2103

Dr. Chaosheng Zhang

Test of a novel diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) technology for monitoring labile phosphorus in the interface of water/sediments in Galway Bay NUIG NUIG

Dr Peter Croot

CDOM – a baseline study for optimizing sensor design

NUIG NUIG

Dr. John LohanPerformance Evaluation of Solar Photovoltaic in Galway Bay Conditions GMIT MI

Dr Michael Schukat

Securing SmartBay via OSNA Involves the deployment andtesting of off‐line authentication and encryption softwareon SmartBay sensor devices for the OSNA (Open Sensor Network Authentication) in NUIG

NUIG

Dr Daniel Toal/Admir Kaknjo

Integration of Smart Event Triggered Ocean Monitoring Platform with SmartBay UL MI

Dr Stephen NashADCP validation of the Galway Bay High Frequency Radar System NUIG MI

Paul Gaughan, Gavin Duffy

An Interactive 3DSimulation of the Spiddal Wave Energy Test Site RealSim MI

Paul GaughanSmartBay Cork Buoy Communications Infrastructure development MI MI

2012/2013 Projects under NIAP

Share of projects funded by NIAP

NUIM

NUIG

DCU

GMIT

UL

TCD

Kinvarra Bay Data Fusion

John Cleary, Thomas Phelan, Cormac Fay, Dermot Diamond, Dublin City University

Ted McCormack, Owen Naughton, Paul Johnston, Laurence Gill,

Trinity College Dublin

Kinvara Bay Objectives

•Develop mobile, wireless-enabled

sensing system

•Mapping of conductivity,

temperature, depth with high temporal

and spatial resolution

•Conduct boat-based transects of

Kinvara bay in order to determine

quantity of submarine freshwater

inputs from north Galway karst

system

Performance Evaluation of Solar

Photovoltaic Collectors under

Galway Bay Conditions

Dr. John Lohan

( Centre for the integration of Sustainable Energy Technologies )

Test Program

•Three fixed angle of inclination (between 0 - 90

Degrees to Horizontal)

•Wave movement about a fixed angle of inclination

(+/- 20 Degrees about fixed angles)

•Impact of debris or surface occlusion

•Weather (test on both sunny and overcast days)

• SmartBay is working with Coder Dojo

Galway on developing a marine focus

linked to marine data visualisation

• SmartBay is currently developing a

practical module for the SMART Sea

School which will be delivered in

November

• An initiative is underway with GMIT to

develop a series of workshops for second

level schools in Galway, Clare and Mayo

• FP 7 –– “Oceans of Tomorrow call” Funding awarded – Marine environmental in situ Assessment and monitoring toolBOX

• “MariaBox” - Project will develop a wireless marine environmental analysis device for monitoring Chemical pollutants

• Irish Partners - DCU(NCSR) and SmartBay

• SmartBay involved in software development and marine testing of sensors

• SmartBay registered as an SME with EU –interested in partnering in new Research proposals - Horizon 2020

SmartBay as a Research

Performer

• Subsea Node for sensors and video

• Power Buoy - OE Devices

Facilities Coming Soon...

Test Site Spiddal, (¼ Scale)

OE Device

WaveBob

Proposed Cable Site

• 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

Thank You

Paul Gaughan

Systems Engineer

paul.gaughan@marine.ie

www.smartbay.ie