Mariabox -Project Title: MARINE environmental in situ Assessment and monitoring tool BOX

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Mariabox -Project Title: MARINE environmental in situ Assessment and monitoring tool BOX

SmartBay Ireland as part of a European Research Consortium will trial and validate a new sensor for detecting biohazards and man-made chemicals. MariaBox is a four year project which is funded under the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme.

Due to growing concerns about the health of our oceans and their capacity to continue to provide resources as well as associated risk of declining water quality for the general population there is an increasing demand for real-time monitoring of the environmental status of marine water quality and the provision of early warning systems.

The ambitious project aims to deliver a Marine Pollution-Monitoring device based on new biosensors, implemented as a set of autonomous modules for the analysis of marine pollutants and the assessment of water quality. New biosensors for monitoring five man-made chemicals and four categories of microalgae toxins affecting the Aquaculture industry will be developed in parallel.
Item: 1 of 5 Project Test Site Vassilikos Cyprus
Item: 2 of 5 Project Test Site Galway Bay Ireland
Item: 3 of 5 Project Test Site Alfacs Spain
Item: 4 of 5 Project Test Site Bantry Bay Ireland
Item: 5 of 5 Project Test Site Skagerrak Norway
Project Test Site Vassilikos Cyprus
Project Test Site Galway Bay Ireland
Project Test Site Alfacs Spain
Project Test Site Bantry Bay Ireland
Project Test Site Skagerrak Norway

SmartBay will lead the development of an innovative software platform and mobile applications, which will allow for data collection and distribution in near real-time. These data will be available and interfaced to Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) services.

The final phase of the project will be the trial, test and validation of the system in four locations across Europe. SmartBay Irelands knowledge, experience and expertise in marine sensor deployments ensured that Ireland was chosen as one of those sites. Access to SmartBay’s Mobilis Buoy Network will be key to demonstrating and proving this technology within a real-world environment.

The consortium consists of 13 partners from 6 European countries including Norway, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Ireland and the UK, with complementary expertise, that form a unique consortium capable of achieving the project objectives.