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FRANCE

Paris September 28,2009


THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL WORKSHOP
OF THE DATA BUOY COOPERATION PANEL (DBCP) XXV

 

Envirtech presented to the most qualified international community the new buoy Envirtech MKI  for sea waves measurement based on innovative MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology.
The buoy is equipped with meteorological sensors, CTD sensor, main radio link and satellite modem as back up communication system.
The same buoy can integrate a surface acoustic modem to interface underwater modules (UM). The main UM developed by Envirtech  is the POSEIDON system to monitor tsunami waves from 100mwd to 6000mwd.
The presentation will be focused on the main innovative technological aspects of the buoy and the POSEIDON class tsunameters and will illustrate samples of real acquired data in Mediterranean sea and in Indian Ocean.
 

CHINA

Chinese delegation visits  Envirtech facility and the italian Environment Protection Agency (APAT)

Rome 19th March 2008

Following an Envirtech Tsunami Warning System presentation,  held in Guangzhou (Canton) a Chinese State Oceanographic Administration delegation  has visited the Apat control room related to the italian sea waves network and the italian tide gauges network. Real time data coming from 3 deep ocean envirtech tsunameters  have been highly apreciated. During the meeting hosted in APAT, researchers from the European Commission Joint Research Center (JRC - Ispra)  have presented the European model for Tsunami waves propagation forecast.

INDIA

INDIAN TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM

Second   seafloor observatory deployed.
 

Tsunami relay buoys ready for deployment

M/V Sagar Kanya,
Bay of Bengal,  TB-8 SITE
December 8, 2006 -  19:00 UTC

SEE THE VIDEO

"Poseidon Class" Envirtech tsunameter DS2, built for the indian National Institute of Ocean Technology, has been successfully deployed on a 3373 meters depth seafloor.  Soon the DS2 started to transmit, via acoustic modem,  telemetry and sea levels data collected by the very high precision pressure transducer and elaborated by the ARM CPU.
At present  Envirtech "Poseidon Class" Tsunameters are the most reliable devices in the world  able to measure and assess the real occurrence of tsunami waves. More on Envirtech Tsunameters, Previous campaign.

 

INDIA

INDIAN TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM
Step 1: first  seafloor observatory

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

NIOT technicians and Akademic Petrov Crew  members are assembling the Envirtech Tsunameter DS1 few minutes before the deployment in the Bay of bengal on 3100 meters depth sea floor.

M/V Akademik Boris Petrov,
Bay of Bengal,
September 27, 2006 -  18:30 UTC

Class Poseidon Envirtech tsunameter DS1, built for the indian National Institute of Ocean Technology, has been successfully deployed on a 3100 meters depth seafloor. More photos.
 

ITALY

10th March, 2006

MeTAS DS2,

second prototype deep station for real time tsunami

measuring in the Mediterranean Sea, has been  successfully tested few miles off shore Palermo, Sicily.

The platform has been equipped with Paroscientific high precision pressure gauge and  related envirtech   ARM datalogger,  hosted in titanium vessels. The Envirtech MeTAS Ds2 - Seafloor Observatory for the Mediterranean Tsunami Alert System

A customized, very powerful, litium battery pack has been used to obtain more than 2 years of power autonomy.
In this second platform
will be tested an underwater telecommunication system based on magneto-inductive transceivers.
The DS2 Deep Station (Vulcan Class)  could be configured to collect many other parameters using
seismometers, Hydrophones, quality probes, current profilers and so on. In this way, together the companion buoy equipped with meteorological station and further transducers, it will be  implemented up-to-date real time seafloor observatory able to increase the benefit/cost ratio of  any Tsunami Warning System.

 

 

ITALY - Fishing Vessels  Tracking 

December 2004 -
Telecom Italia, leading european  Telecommunication operator, active in radiomaritime services,  assigns  Envirtech final acceptation tests,  for the 2nd phase, the Blue Box Project, involving more than  1000 fishing vessels,  monitored via Inmarsat satellites.

INDIA

Envirtech "Poseidon Class" Seafloor Observatory for NIOT (National Institute of Ocean Technology) - INDIA
Indian Tsunameters
1th June, 2006

First two systems for indian National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT)

have been preliminary successfully tested at sea (see video stream). A  new class (Poseidon) of realtime seafloor observatories,   for tsunami assessment, has been developed by Envirtech labs to satisfy  the growing  request for  high reliability  equipments able to monitor tsunami waves with no uncertainty respect  estimation of land seismic networks. Until precise models able to correlate  Earthquakes and Tsunami waves  will be not  available, deep ocean seafloor devices will continue to be the only choose to avoid   fails  in  tsunami assessment.  According to the seismologist  Harsh K Gupta declarations released   at the   93rd Indian science Congress: "unlike the pacific tsunami warning system which generates large number of false alarms, the system being developed by Indian scientists would be fool-proof".

 

FRANCE

Paris January 31

European Commission and Unesco/IOC. Information Society Technologies
in the 6th
Framework Programme. IST Call 6 -  

Info-Day onTsunami Early Warning Systems.

Envirtech will present its experiences related to development of seabed high depth monitoring platforms and  surface telecommunication systems.

 

Thailand

Bangkok Sep 5 2005

At NDWC, the National Disaster Warning Center, Envirtech has presented the proposal for the Thai Tsunami Warning System. Envirtech has been invited by the Thai Agency together others foreigners representative to select the better choice for a National Tsunami  Early Warning System.

 

ITALY - Port of Trapani ISPS Code 

May 2005 - Trapani Port Authority awards Envirtech for plans and engineering services to implement ISPS Code -  From 29 september to 9 October, the Port of Trapani will host the Trapani Louis Vuitton Acts 8&9, competitions valid for the 32nd America's Cup Match. 

UK

London 21th March 2006
Oceanology 2006

Envirtech has presented the MeTAS Deep Station 2 - The seafloor observatory for the Mediterranean Tsunami Alarm System. A great number of skilled visitors found the Envirtech solution  very apreciable. The underwater system will be soon deployed on a 2200 mwd seabed off shore North coast of Sicily. 

 

ITALY

Unesco IOC
ICG/NEAMTWS

Rome, November 21-22
Italian  Prof. Stefano Tinti has been appointed  Chairman of the   Intergovernmental
Coordinating Group for the Tsunami Early Warning and Mitigation System in the Northeastern Atlantic,
the Mediterranean and
Connected Seas
,
hold in Rome  under the auspices of the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and Ministry for Environment and Protection of the Territory. Envirtech and Telecom Italia, sponsor of the meeting,  presented to the delegates their solution for Tsunami Warning System in the Mediterranean sea.  (press release).

 

Philippines

Manila - Sep  9 Envirtech has presented to PAGASA  a special buoys network solution to implement an early warning system for Typhoons precursors. In a distinct session prettily conceded by the PHIVOLCS (Philippine Institute of Volcanology & Seismology) has been presented the Envirtech deep ocean seismological gauges network.

 

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CHILE - Cape Horn Mission

September 2004
- Envirte
ch sponsored oceanographer and  anthropologist,  Rodolfo Lama Rodolfo Lama has returned to  Rome, from his Cape Horn solitary expedition, where he  conducted successful survey to prove his theory on ancient human migrations trek from Oceania to South American continent via Antarctic.

 

Thailand

United Nation Escap - High Level Expert Group meeting on technical options for disaster management systems - 

Bangkok June 22, 2005  our  Project Manager  for Tsunami Warning System  development, Daniele Calore, has presented  Envirtech Deep Sea solution for tsunamis detection.

Spain
Waves 2005:  Fifth International Symposium on Ocean Wave Measurement and Analysis
Madrid, Spain 6th July 

Today Mr. Bencivenga (Italian  Agency for Environmental Protection and Technical Services APAT, has presented MeTAS, The Mediterranean Tsunami Alarm System. The proposed system bases on Envirtech's Deep Ocean observation platforms and relay buoys. The first deep station and relay buoy will be deployed on a 2000 meters depth sea bed, between the Stromboli and   the Marsili Volcanos, in the Southern Tyrrhenian sea.  

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