{"id":2299,"date":"2021-02-17T17:30:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:30:02","slug":"rbr-advancing-smart-integrated-ocean-sensors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/rbr-advancing-smart-integrated-ocean-sensors\/","title":{"rendered":"RBR Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"g-container\">\n<h2>Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project &#8211; Projet de capteurs intelligents int\u00e9gr\u00e9s pour l&rsquo;oc\u00e9an<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2310\" src=\"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rbr-Mock-up-4-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Canada\u2019s Ocean Supercluster Announces $3.6M Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><em>One of Three Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program Projects Announced on Feb. 17<\/em><\/h3>\n<div>On Feb. 17, 2021, Canada\u2019s Ocean Supercluster announced three new projects with a total value of $12 million from its Accelerated Ocean Solutions Program (AOSP) stream, including the <em>Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project<\/em>. This Ontario-led project brings together SMEs, academia, government, and other partners in ocean innovation to bring state-of-the-art ocean environmental monitoring sensors into the ocean\u2019s autonomous platforms, creating four highly skilled jobs, with the potential for 20 indirect positions, and part-time positions.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b7Hzpi9iEAQ\">Watch the Announcement here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b7Hzpi9iEAQ\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The ocean industry is challenged with a need to improve measurements of ocean health using autonomous platforms to broaden observational coverage and reduce the number of people on research vessels. Following the pandemic, the need to enhance autonomous measurements and reduce people will be accelerated. The new sensors developed within the <em>Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project<\/em> will reduce power, lower costs, enable better system integration, and improve measurements with higher stability and data quality protocols.<\/p>\n<p>With a total project value of $3.6 million, the Ocean Supercluster will provide $2 million in funding for the project, with the balance coming from industry partners. Led by <a href=\"https:\/\/rbr-global.com\/\">RBR<\/a>, the project will partner with world-class scientists across Canada at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dal.ca\/faculty\/science\/oceanography.html\"> Dalhousie University<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca\/index-eng.htm\"> Fisheries and Oceans Canada<\/a> to define and develop new autonomous sensor technology and data quality control in oceans.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project<\/em> will solve key challenges in the ocean sector related to integrating environmental monitoring sensors into the ocean\u2019s autonomous platforms, creating global commercial opportunities for OSC members. Project partners will benefit from improved sensor performance and lower costs, access to built-in-Canada and supported-in-Canada sensors and platforms, and public-private partnerships that provide work and collaboration experiences to a diverse group of scientists and students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ocean Supercluster is changing the way business is done and positioning Canada as a global leader in the ocean economy. Through innovative projects like the ones announced today, Canada\u2019s Superclusters are clearly succeeding in fostering stronger connections across the innovation ecosystem and creating real benefits for Canadians.\u201d <em>\u2013 <strong>The Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonitoring the ocean ecosystem is critical to how we tackle some of the biggest challenges in our ocean. This new project will not only deliver game-changing capabilities to help us better understand ocean health but also provides global applications across ocean sectors. We are excited to announce the Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project today which brings together SMEs, research and government who will collaborate on this important project.\u201d <em>&#8211; <strong>Kendra MacDonald, CEO, Canada\u2019s Ocean Supercluster<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe OSC funding enables a leap forwards in our capabilities and reduces the timeline to bring these exciting new sensors to market.\u201d <em>&#8211; <strong>Greg Johnson, President of RBR Ltd.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0The addition of biogeochemical sensors to Argo floats is an unprecedented opportunity to address pressing questions about changing ocean ecosystems and global climate that are otherwise intractable. This will be a game changer for ocean biogeochemical observation and prediction.\u00a0\u00bb &#8211;<em> <strong>Katja Fennel, Professor, Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFisheries and Ocean Canada is a strong supporter of the Argo Program, and has committed to advancing the effort to integrate biogeochemical sensors into the global fleet. The development ofnew BGC sensors by RBR will provide benefits to all countries that contribute to Argo.\u201d<em> &#8211; <strong>Blair <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Greenan, Research Scientist, Fisheries and Oceans Canada<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/French-News-Release_Projet-de-capteurs-intelligents-integres-pour-locean.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">French News Release\u00a0 &#8211; Projet de capteurs intelligents int\u00e9gr\u00e9s pour l\u2019oc\u00e9an<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project &#8211; Projet de capteurs intelligents int\u00e9gr\u00e9s pour l&rsquo;oc\u00e9an Canada\u2019s Ocean Supercluster Announces $3.6M Advancing Smart Integrated Ocean Sensors Project One of Three Accelerated Ocean Solutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceansupercluster.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}