BoSeProMare Project - Self-Propelled Marine Protection Buoy

Self-Propelled Marine Protection Buoy

BoSeProMare (Self-Propelled Marine Protection Buoy) involves the design, development and construction of a buoy to be used for monitoring a range of marine environmental parameters and for providing various services, integrated within the Control Room (CR). The buoy will consist of two functional modules:

1. A fixed part (‘Mother’) which will be positioned at a specific point of interest and anchored to the seabed via a dedicated fixed structure;
2. A second mobile part (“Daughter”) which will be capable of carrying out mobile measurements in various dynamically identified areas;
3. The buoys will be equipped with energy harvesting systems to convert energy collected from various available sources, thereby powering the devices and recharging the batteries;
4. The daughter buoy will be motorised and thus capable of moving using multiple directional propellers. It will be able to carry out measurements of environmental parameters, including pH, salinity, temperature, turbidity and analysis of microplastics or suspended particles; this will be achieved through pre-set monitoring routes (autonomous navigation) and the creation of specific missions that can be activated via remote control, trackable in real time via GPS.

Project Portal: https://sites.unica.it/cmael-gatto/home/bosepromare/

Budget: € 249.432,40
Funding: Sardinia Regional Operational Programme (POR-FESR) 2014–2020, Strategy 2 – Economic Identity, Project 2.1 – Research and Technological Innovation, Funding for research and development projects – ICT sector
Duration: September 2023 – February 2026
Research Area: Green e Blue Economy

Principal Investigator: Prof. Gianluca Gatto