AXYS buoy to support offshore wind development
AXYS Technologies Inc (AXYS) has deployed its meteorological and oceanographic data buoy at an offshore wind development on the Northern coast of Poland.
The WatchKeeper buoy will be used as part of an upcoming Environmental Impact and Assessment campaign in the Baltic Sea. This campaign forms part of the Environmental application for the offshore wind farm development FEW Baltic II.
“AXYS is proud to be supporting BTI with their environmental impact and assessment campaign with our real-time metocean buoy system,” said Terry Tarle, president and CEO at AXYS Technologies.
He added: “We wish BTI success in their anticipated involvement in developing the offshore wind farm FEW Baltic II.”
The WatchKeeper buoy is equipped to provide wind speed and direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, solar radiation, directional waves, current speed and direction, conductivity, and water temperature in near real-time via satellite telemetry.
It also uses a new AIS Aid to Navigation device, which broadcasts buoy position and weather information to local vessel traffic.
This both protects the buoy from collision by notifying vessels of its location, and can also act as an additional telemetry method providing data within radio range.
By Alice Mason
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