Entries for Ocean Observing Prize

The research buoy drifter for collecting and transmitting information about the ocean recharges its battery due to energy of sea waves.

We develop energy harvesting devices and communication technology

Using laser communication and a swarm of AUV's to map the seafloor and send video through to a wave-powered ASV to satellites.

The Hālona WEC is a mobile wave energy conversion platform that provides power for oceanographic sensors and autonomous underwater vehicles.

The concept utilizes offshore drilling technology coupled with hydro-kinetic turbines to generate power from ocean currents.

The UUV concept I have developed will be able to explore the ocean while being powered by waves.

We are developing a scalable wave energy conversion (WEC) solution that can be applied to a wide range of Blue Economy application spaces.

High powered ocean dwelling buoy with UAV

We propose to construct and deploy a fully autonomous, self sustaining, real-time moored floating biological met/ocean LiDAR buoy.

We will empower continuous data collection in the ocean and high-bandwidth data transmission from ocean to shore.

A scalable power buoy and simple, low-cost, modular sensor platform; and a decentralized, cyclical data economy to incentivize data-sharing

We present underwater backscatter, a new technology that reduces the power consumption of underwater communication by one million times.

The proposed wave-powered ocean observing buoy converts kinetic energy from ocean waves to electricity via a patented linear generator.

Develop an AUV docking and recharge capability to bridge an AUV-based open ocean observatory with a wave energy converter.

Integrate a rapidly installed breakwater into a WEC that would generate power for UUV charging while creating a sheltered area for docking

The system is built to operate in a wide range of sea conditions.