Khalifa project in Abu Dhabi
What seems to be a nice Christmas picture is a truck leaving the premises at Observator instruments containing 21 monitoring buoys for Royal Boskalis Westminster nv. This international group providing all sorts of dredging services, received a major order from Abu Dhabi Ports Company for the first construction phase of the new offshore
Within the environmental paragraph of this contract, an environmental monitoring system was described since the dredging activities could influence the vulnerable nearby ecosystem, in this case a coral reef.
A rapidly delivery from Observator’s site was required since Boskalis Westminster nv, intended to start their activities as soon as possible. Therefore Observator first shipped ten of their small OMC-045-B-250 small monitoring buoys. This should cover the environmental monitoring during the first actions. Sooner than within one month the temporarily buoys should be replaced by the long term OMC-045-B-1200 buoys. These are provided with equipment for long term deployment.
The data of all 18 water quality buoys and 3 ADCP buys measuring current information and wave height and directions are stored into the OMC-045-II GPRS loggers. The loggers are standard provided with a GPS module which gives an alarm when the buoy are outside there sector.
All information is send through GPRS to a FTP server whereby OMC-Data-OnLine is active.
All people involved in this project can view the data via internet. This is stored in the OMC-Data-OnLine system. Every day Boskalis will receive a OMC-Data-OnLine report, while alarms will be given instantaneously in order to adjust the dredging management.
[maandag 24 december 2007]
