Ocean Supercluster Announces $27M Integrated Operations And Real-Time Analytics Project
The Integrated Operations And Real-Time Analytics Project is an innovative egg to harvest solution to bring transformative benefits to the aquaculture industry.
SubC Imaging’s involvement in this incredible project is to provide machine vision camera systems that will automatically measure net health. The real-time image processing will detect any change in the mesh of the net, including tears or changes in size, and flag for immediate intervention by people who are monitoring the health of the fish and the farm.
This will greatly reduce the potential of fish escaping, when compared with the existing methods. The damage and degradation of nets used for fish farms is a common concern in all aquaculture operations, anywhere in the world. Companies invest heavily in the production of healthy fish, and any loss of those fish due to escape or predators is obviously less than desirable. In addition, there is an environmental impact if fish escape into the wild. SubC’s contribution to this project is to develop a solution to this problem.
For more information, please see the Ocean Supercluster press release below:
For Immediate Release
February 25, 2021
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.
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 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 freshwater ecosystems by developing and providing technology solutions for egg to harvest open ocean aquaculture and supporting the Ocean Supercluster’s focus on building Canada’s ocean economy in a digital, sustainable, and inclusive way.
