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Environment
News Release from: WFS | Subject: SMART award
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 May 2008
SMART Award will help environmental
monitoring
Thanks to new technology pioneered by WFS, the environmental monitoring industry stands to benefit from higher performance, cheaper, and more easily deployable wireless monitoring systems
With the support of a SMART Award from the Scottish Government, WFS will conduct an 8-month feasibility study into the development of the world's first underwater and underground RF communication system designed specifically for environmental monitoring The project represents groundbreaking work that will move Scotland to the forefront of emerging environmental technologies
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The new technology will dramatically reduce the cost and effort involved in deploying environmental monitoring systems", said Ian Crowther, Business Development Manager at WFS.
"With the support of the Scottish Government, we will be able to extend the range of possibilities for those involved in the management of our natural environment.
This project will deliver a wireless system that communicates over greater distances through water, ground and air, that costs less and that consumes less power".
The leading edge technology being developed by WFS will allow unobtrusive and seamless transmission through water and through ground, removing the need for cables, repeater buoys or for digging trenches to lay cables.
Unlike conventional wireless systems, WFS radio technology is unaffected by challenging water conditions and has no adverse affect on aquatic life.
With wide ranging potential applications, WFS innovative technology is used by the private sector, public sector bodies and NGOs involved in environmental management.
The system will be optimised for environmental applications, such as:.
* Water quality monitoring in rivers, reservoirs, lochs and the sea.
* Rapidly deployable systems to investigate and monitor pollution incidents.
* Measuring gas levels, gas pressure, and the release of leachate at landfill sites.
* Control and telemetry in the water and waste water industries.
* Real-time flood warning and flood monitoring.
* Monitoring waste water levels in urban sewers.
* Inspection of offshore wind and wave farms using AUVs, ROVs, and UUVs.
* Marine and harbour dredging.
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