SANY Sensors Anywhere

Marinetech South is a not-for-profit company operating as a joint-venture of seven major maritime research and engineering centres. Its shareholders include: Universities of Portsmouth, Southampton, Plymouth and Solent University College; QinetiQ, National Oceanography Centre (Southampton) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (no shareholding exceeds 25%).
The company was established by its current CEO in 1994. It works to promote world-class maritime research and innovation through effective collaboration between industry and the science and engineering base.

Role in SANY IP:

Marine risks. Leader of SP5.

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In order to achieve this goal, Marinetech South pursues the following key objectives:

• To launch and manage high-quality, collaborative research programmes focused on identified market priorities
• To promote the exploitation of science and technology through the active participation of innovative firms
• To expand the availability of skills in leading edge technologies, to enable their effective application by companies in new products and services.

The company does not perform research itself, but manages collaborations involving a wide range of European research organisations. This provides independence of any specific research agenda, and allows it to pursue objectively the development of leading edge user applications.
The company has focused its activities mainly towards marine environmental technology developments, ranging from sensor developments (RIMAR project funded by UK DTI and NERC) through to model/knowledge development (MIME project funded by a consortium of oil companies and UK DTI and NERC) and development of decision support tools/guidelines (SWIM project, funded by UK EPSRC).
Due to its credibility as a manager of innovative projects, Marinetech has particularly strong experience in developing use-case scenarios for novel technologies and business models. These reflect the key market drivers of economics, market evolution and regulatory pressure. As a result, the company can effectively manage user consortia and ensure that research achievements reflect the needs of users and the realities of market commercialisation.
Integration and clustering of leading centres of expertise has been a major role of the company over the past ten years. It has achieved this though a combination of: network creation & management; cluster facilitation; development of research collaborations involving industrial and science-base partners; organisation of workshops and other events for brainstorming novel product and capability topics. The company has widely recognised expertise in defining truly innovation developments which draw on collective leading edge capabilities across a research community.

• MarineTech South Ltd.

Other IPs with Marinetech's participation:

Marinetech South has been a major partner or coordinator in the following projects relevant to SANY (excluding minor projects and roles):

• MIME – project director and manager, developing a decision support system for offshore oil & gas discharges, now marketed by BMT as the Proteus system
• TRENDS – work package leader (environment) in this FP5 thematic network addressing future priorities for QHSE advances. Defined industry-validated needs for advances which will be addressed by SANY
• iMARQ – technical coordinator of this FP5 IST project developing fusion and modelling tools for marine environmental decision support. These advances are being taken forward into a generic framework by SANY
• ICReW – managing a pilot action in this Interreg IIIC project, This is prototyping a simple decision support system targeting compliance with the revised Bathing Water Directive
• WINGS for SHIPS – leading the specification and evaluation work in this FP5 IST project, targeting a decision support system for ships’ masters facing adverse weather conditions.

• project name: very short project description

Contact:
Dr Jonathan WILLIAMS name@domain
Dr John DERING name@domain