The SENSOCEAN project has successfully concluded this April after 2 years of continuous work.

The project, developed by EOLOS and IREC, aimed to investigate and develop a meteoceanic buoy with advanced sensory and digital technologies to characterise marine wind energy and climate change in the Mediterranean Sea. As a result of the project, an enhanced version of the EOLOS’ floating buoy was developed. This meteoceanic platform can operate in deep waters, far from the shore with minimal operation and maintenance requirements.

To achieve these results, the consortium of SENSOCEAN evaluated optimal mooring systems, dynamics and energy efficiency. In addition, the project involved optimizing system components and implementing improved methods for remote data sharing and processing.

Pol Paradell, Nuria Cantó and Magnus Kallinger from the Power Systems Department at IREC contributed to the development of the meteoceanic buoy through their expertise in the fields of communications, energy control, data treatment and sharing, and hydrodynamic modelling and loads validation.

SENSOCEAN demonstrated that the new platform can operate effectively in locations with very deep waters and that the energy consumption and generation of the floating buoy system can be optimized without requiring significant changes to the existing components. In this regard, the potential use of satellite data and low-bandwidth systems with local data processing was also analysed. 

Acknowledgements (in Catalan)

Aquest projecte ha rebut el suport d’ACCIÓ.