National Test and Demonstration
Platform for Advanced Marine
Technologies
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
John Breslin General Manager SmartBay Ireland
Responsible for managing the National Research, Test and
Demonstration Platform
Paul Gaughan Systems Engineer SmartBay Ireland
Responsible for the coordination of all research projects using
the SmartBay Infrastructure
Regina McNulty Senior Software Developer
Responsible for the design planning and coordination of the
SmartBay IT architecture
Eric Cullen Senior Software Developer
Responsible for the design planning and coordination of the
SmartBay IT architecture
Project Coordinator and Administrator
Responsible for all administrative elements of the SmartBay
research projects
What We Do
Robust Configurable
Mobilis DB8000 Platforms
• SmartBay facilitate the
development of
innovative approaches to
technology through
sensor deployments in a
real world environment.
• The Infrastructure can be
accessed by academic
researchers and industrial
organisations for test and
demonstration purposes
Marine Services
• Assembly
/Integration
1.
• Future
Iterations
4.
• Marinisation
2.
Pre
deployment
scoping
and
planning
Bench Test
of
Equipment
Post
Deployment
Field
test/trial
• Deployment
3.
ICT Services
• Data
Capture
1.
• Data
Visualisation
4.
• Data
Management
Real-time
streaming data
capture - multiple
sensors, multiple
datasets
Storage and
parsing of raw
data
- Access to
current wind,
wave & weather
data - Data
analytics
Data converted
into multiple
formats - csv,
json, mat, kml,
2.
• Middleware
3.
SmartBay Portal
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
•
The fund will be available from November
2012-Devember 2014
•
Current funding call will close 30th of January
2013
Travel and networking grants for PhDs and
MScs 10 Grants at €1000 each
SmartBay Access Funding of 10 Small scale
grants at €2,000 each
Logistics and Security
Fishing & Aquaculture
Wave Energy
Marine ICT
Environmental
Monitoring
Off Shore Wind
Oil & Gas
Shipping
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
Test Site Spiddal, (¼ Scale)
OE Device
WaveBob
Informatics
Data processing, visualisation and forecast
Communications
Satellite, Wireless, Cable
Deployment
Power, system control, in-situ testing
Distributed sensing
Physical, chemical, biological, acoustic, visual
SmartBay Ireland
Vision
To be recognised as a maritime centre of excellent infrastructure and service for
delivering innovative and value added test and demonstration solutions to support
our partners and clients research, product development and commercialisation
activities
Mission
•Focusing on bringing unique marine ICT value to industry sectors,
for example: Offshore renewable energy
•Supporting research, development and translation
•Demonstrating, validating, and proving new and innovative technologies and
solutions
•Collaborating with partners to develop international services and solutions that
deliver economic value
Future Vision
Translation
Service Provision
Product Sales
& Intellectual Property
Commercial
Extend
Proof of
Concept
Research
Joint Research
Projects
Research &
Development
Non Commercial
Test and
Demonstration
Services
Commercial Test
and Demonstration
Services
Revenue
Cost
Expand
Translation
Commercial
Proof of
Concept
Service Provision
Product Sales
& Intellectual
Property
Extend
Joint
Research
Projects
Research
and
Development
Non Commercial
Test and
Demonstration
Services e.g. FP7
Commercial Test
and
Demonstration
Services
Research
Cost
Revenue
Expand
Current Activity – NUI Galway & SmartBay:
•
OSNA - Involves the deployment and testing of off‐line authentication and encryption software on SmartBay
sensor devices for the OSNA (Open Sensor Network Authentication) Research Group based in NUIG
•
CDOM – A baseline study for optimizing sensor design (Dr. Peter Croot, NUIG)
•
DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute, developing an advanced marine cyber-infrastructure (NUIG)
•
NIAP ADCP Deployment – (Prof. Michael Hartnett, NUIG)
•
•
CODAR (NIAP1)–Surface Current Observations, Galway Bay– Data management (Dr. Stephen Nash, NUIG)
CODAR (NIAP2)–Surface Current Observations, Galway Bay– Data Validation (Dr. Stephen Nash, NUIG)
•
Potential NIAP Application for HF Radar installation at Westwave site (Prof. Michael Hartnett, NUIG)
•
Test of a novel diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) technology for monitoring labile phosphorus in the
interface of water/sediments in Galway Bay (Dr. Chaosheng Zhang, NUIG)
•
IRC M.Sc. ‘Characterising Herring spawning events in Galway Bay,’ (Dr. Jim Duggan & Mark Johnson, NUIG)
Thank You
John Breslin
General Manager