NEWS ARTICLE
Sustainable growth for Canada’s blue economy:
Ocean Supercluster announces new $27M project for integrated operations and real time analytics During a recent online event, together with project partners, Canada’s Ocean Supercluster announced the Integrated Operations and Real-Time Analytics Project. Led from Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia, the almost $27 million project will bridge gaps between land, sea-based, and processing operations that exist in the aquaculture industry today by providing real-time information, analytics and environmental connectivity to improve overall operations. Through its development, the project will create 138 new jobs, including 20 at project implementation. Innovative Egg to Harvest Solution to Bring Transformative Benefits to Aquaculture The innovative system developed and commercialized through the Integrated Operations and Real-Time Analytics Project will provide technology that will enable global control over operations, from egg to harvest, including feeding fish and monitoring of fish, equipment and personnel. Through data exchange and collaboration between partners, the project will result in a suite of technologies that will enable game-changing capabilities in aquaculture and offshore marine operations as well as connectivity to the environment that is transformative for the region and its fishing and aquaculture industries. The Integrated Operations and Real-Time Analytics Project, led by Grieg Seafood Newfoundland with its partners Innovasea, SubC Imaging, AKVA Group, and High-Tech Communications, will enable companies to have complete control of operations in areas where this would not have been possible due to lack of connectivity. Canada’s Ocean Supercluster is contributing close to $12 34 »
Source: Innovasea.
million to the project with $14.8 million coming from industry. The project will benefit its partners, OSC members, industry, and customers by allowing for better planning and decision making through: • Enhanced containment monitoring; • Better fish health monitoring; • Advanced equipment monitoring;
• Broadened environmental monitoring; • Increased storm preparedness; • Improved crew safety, and • Innovative network capabilities and farm system software. The Integrated Operations and Real-Time Analytics Project will promote sustainable use of ocean and FEBRUARY - MARCH 2021
