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Coastal Monitoring and
Infrastructure Investment
SWIG Conference:
Coastal Pollution Monitoring
27th January 2016
Kevin Fitzgibbon
Coordinator
Water Systems & Services Innovation Centre
Nimbus, CIT
Challenges: Sea Level Rise
One UN IPCC AR5 scenario
(BUT: the consensus-approach discounts empirical models
in favour of physical models – underestimated?)
Challenges: Coastal Erosion
Retreating Coastlines
Challenges: Rainfall
• More very wet winter days & river flash floods
• Greater risk of coastal storm surge flooding
Challenges: Agriculture
End of Agriculture Quotas
&
Food Harvest 2020more pollution risk, diffuse sources
All factors pointing to: Higher Risk of Nutrient and
Turbidity Pollution in Coastal & River areas
It wasn’t me...
Responses: new thinking
Lee Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Study
…all driven by… Data
The Internet of Things…
Devices/Things Networks Software &
Data Analytics
Applications
& Services
…happens in Nimbus
Interlude: What We Do
Commercialisation Supports and Spin-out
Trials
Prototype Development
Commercial Validation and Funding
Idea development and filtering
€
Interlude: Our Process
…with over 90 researchers and developers,
and lots of industry experience
Projects in all aspects of Data Monitoring Systems
+ -
Sensors Electronic
system
Platform Wireless
Comms
Data !
Project Examples
+ + +
Innovative smart water chip for in-situ analysis of water born
elements, compounds, and pathogens.
Samples are analysed optically using micro fluidic and micro
photonic channels in a glass chip.
Innovation Voucher and Innovation Partnership Project.
Smart Water Chip In-situ Water Analysis
Hydrolight Sensors
n-harvest n-base n-Edison n-PV
n-bed
n-nodeCC n-node24
n-U35 n-U68
General Module bb ModuleRF Module
n-mote electronic system
n-mote electronic system
Low Cost Monitoring Buoy – Environmental Water Quality
Real-time monitoring of water quality
parameters
Low-cost low-maintenance platforms for
continuous monitoring
Using the n-mote system for LoRa & 3G
data comms
Version 1 part funded by Cork City &
Cork County Councils
Version 2 funded by Intel
Monitoring Buoy Platform
LoRa Comms Infrastructure
• Low-power long range LoRa communications
• Enabling infrastructure for data capture
• Will allow real-time monitoring in Cork Harbour
Proposed Cork Harbour LoRa Network
Pervasive Nation Project funded by SFI
A Key Element of Communications Infrastructure
Facilitating Research and Cork Smart Gateway initiatives
Very valuable addition to Coastal Monitoring toolkit for Cork
Conclusion
• Using ‘Systems of Systems’ thinking - a Smart
Internet of Things approach
• Developing sensors, systems, platforms and
communications infrastructure
• Creating commercially viable products and
services to generate economic growth and job
creation
WSSIC & Nimbus –
The Water Systems &
Services Innovation Centre
Thank You