Subsea Monitoring Network SMN e.v. Dr.-Ing. Carl Thiede, Member SMN e.v.

Subsea Monitoring Network SMN e.v. Dr.-Ing. Carl Thiede, Member SMN e.v.

Subsea Monitoring Network Established in 2014, located in Rostock Association of German maritime technology companies and institutions in a thematic network The network complements existing structures such as GMT, DSMA, KDM and DGM and working with them closely

SMN Partner so far

Subsea Monitoring Network High reliability of equipment under extreme environmental conditions, like deep sea, requires systematic and comprehensive testing Only few developers have full range of test facilities Sea trials on German research vessels still suitable only conditionally

Goals of SMN Professional national and international exchanges Commercial joint projects Research & Development Offering and managing of existing test facilities in Rostock / Baltic Sea Rostock Ocean Technology Center

What is needed? High demands on marine equipment and vehicles for new fields of technology need: New underwater technologies (Pressure neutral systems, energy storage) high degree of autonomy (robotics) Proved under water navigation- communication and monitoring procedures (control and supervision) new demands for service life and energy (long-time operation) very high reliability and availability under extreme environmental conditions

Develop reliable water technologies - from the Baltic Sea to the deep sea The development of a high reliability and availability under extreme environmental conditions constitutes adequate testing ahead under these conditions! Improving testing infrastructure and testing equipment, organization and provision of test and trial opportunities Water tank testing, port testing Baltic Sea testing, deepwater testing Anchorages for long-term tests Scientifically - technical trials in a marine research facility

Testing infrastructure Rostock habour Autokran Autostellplät ze Fahrcontaine r Liegeplatz Erprobungsfahrzeug Fahrgebiet

Testing infrastructure Rostock artificiel reef

Available testing platform located in reef

Resulting project SMIS - Subsea Monitoring via Intelligent Swarms (Contact: Dr. Hoog, IMPaC; Hr grains Enitech; Dr. Waniek, IOW.) FLEXMOT - Flexible Monitoring Tool for long-term measurements of CO2 and methane (Contact: Prof. Lukas, Fraunhofer IGD, Mr Esser, Contros.). WAQUAM - Mobile inspection and water quality measurement system (Contact: Mr. Marx, subctech.)

Examples of vehicles from Germany (R&D) DNS Pegel (AUV), DNS ERNO (ROV), ENITECH/DNS Tiefsee DNS Pretos (AUV), DNS Tiefsee Tietek (AUV), Fraunhofer DORIS α (AUV), ENITECH/SMIS SONOBOT (USV), EvoLogics Comming soon: Autonomes surface vehicle (USV), SMIS Seabed station, SMIS Bionic Manta, BOSS DeDAvE (AUV), Fraunhofer

Available AUV Technologies

Bionic Manta (Project BOSS)

Available ROV Technologies

Available USVs

Acoustic network (Evologics) AHRS (USBL-Modem) Self-configuring UW-network Measuring the distances and acoustic channel characteristics S2C Beacons

Further planned steps Organization of land-based deep-sea trials Get in contact witch international partners Improving infrastructure for harbor trials Strengthening cooperation with the operator of artificial reefs Nienhagen and Rosenort Test and training area for AUVs, ROVs and Crawler Creation of testing options for Deep Sea Mining Push the implementation of the Ocean Technology Center Rostock

Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems (MARS) Innovation Centre Opening Spring 2015, located in NOC / Southampton GB

Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN)

The Vision of a German under water Technology Center In addition to numerous technology projects, the concept of the service center Underwater Technology "PELAGOS" was elaborated in Subsea Monitoring Network. The basic approach was that services offered to the network as Merge / provision of services and infrastructure Expand the product ranges based on the competences of the network partners Common branding expand and institutionalize underwater technology in the service center. Center for Underwater Technology "PELAGOS" is companydriven, focused on the future maritime growth markets and anchored Maritime Technologies of the Federal Government in the National Master Plan.

Rostock as location Need for a coastal location. Together with mayor and economic development potential sites are currently being evaluated The city of Rostock has already provided a terrain as a basis for testing of marine components and systems available in Warnemünde. This site can be used as the nucleus for and is temporarily all partners of Subsea Monitoring Network.

OCEAN TECHNOLOGY CENTER ROSTOCK Research Testing Production - Training

OCEAN TECHNOLOGY CENTER ROSTOCK Rostock is the German center for underwater technology Innovation park with an underwater testing ground to development. Testing of innovative marine / deep sea technologies Research institutions and companies working in Innovation Park together on practice-relevant problems and develop new products and technologies to production level Renowned research institutions like Fraunhofer IGD, IOW, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GEOMAR or others will work with high efficiency together Companys / scientists take advantage of the excellent infrastructure Rostock thus becomes the focal point for marine technology with appropriate development, testing and testing infrastructure

Contact the SMN Subsea Monitoring Network e.v. Hansestr. 21 D-18182 Bentwisch Fon +49 381 6302-100 Fax +49 381 6302-111 management@subsea-monitoring.net www.subsea-monitoring.net