www.censis.org.uk

Sensing Opportunities for

Subsea, Offshore and Marine

CENSIS helps businesses extend their technical development capacities to accelerate delivery of new Sensor and Imaging Systems (SIS) products and services.We can n help you source and optimise your R&D choices

n connect you to cross-sector SIS supply chains and academic expertise

n open access to specialist facilities

n leverage funding through our own and partner mechanisms

n provide business support and professional project management

We understand that not all innovation is about game changing technologies or ground breaking new products. Sometimes it’s about the timely adoption of the best technologies or about delivering greater capability or better efficiencies from existing systems or services.

CENSIS support will help you to explore and apply a process of continual and iterative innovation at a number of levels. We assist in the identification of research and supply-chain expertise in new and emerging SIS technologies, and make those important introductions that start the innovation process. CENSIS is a cross sector Innovation Centre and we help deliver cross sector solutions.

In Scotland, SIS companies and universities are developing and delivering key enabling capabilities across the sensor system stack today. Let us help you to achieve the efficiency, management and predictive outcomes SIS can deliver for the marine and subsea sector.

REAL TIME USER TARGETED & INTERROGATABLE 3D LAYERS

Image reconstruction

Augmented Reality platforms

Image Feature tracking

Machine vision

INTELLIGENT, DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLED AND HIGHLY ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS

Optimised process from continuous, evolving data

Iterative mission planning for AUV and robotic systems

Decision-making collaborative, re-routable, connected devices

HIGH PERFORMANCE ON-BOARD PROCESSING, EFFICIENT DATA MANAGEMENT

& ADVANCED ANALYTICS

Real time analytics

Highly certain, actionable data

Self calibrating/self fault-finding

Secure data

ADVANCED MATERIALS, MANUFACTURING AND DIGITAL CAPABILITIES

Embed, retrofit, integrate, upgrade

Flexible electronics

3D printed custom shapes

Microsystems (chip-based sensors/actuators/electronics/structures)

SENSOR SYSTEM COMPONENTS

VISUALISATION LAYER

INTEGRATED DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER

LOCAL CONTROL LAYER

PHYSICAL LAYER

(Sensor devices, AUV, switches & actuators)

High level, real time situational condition reporting

Dynamic control to local network

Real time data & analytics

COMMUNICATION LAYER

LINK TO SHORE

Satellite

Ship

AUV/UAV

Cable

WIRELESS NET

Accoustic

Light

Radio

LOCAL NET

Wired & Wireless

R&D snapshot of SIS in development at Scotland’s HEIs

New materials and manufacturingn Thin film transducers, microporous polymers,

nano-composite paints and coatings delivering intelligent skins to measure chemical and physical parameters

n Next generation SiC chip technology fabrication and integration

n 3D printing, layering and encapsulation; custom shapes

n Disposable devices and flexible electronics

Connected devices and intelligent networks n High bandwidth and fast speed laser comms

n Decentralised algorithms and protocols for low-powered sensing and control systems

n AUV mission planning

n Persistent / adaptive autonomous platforms

n Collaborative decision making/swarm algorithms

n Adaptive/proactive routing

New sensor data interpretation and control platformsn Advanced real time motion capture

n Deep sea imaging

n Image stitching/mosaicking and smart pixel platforms

n 3D and 4D visualisation

n Image reconstruction and scene understanding

n VR and haptic feedback

n Feature tracking

n Multi and hyperspectral imaging

Emerging sensor technologiesn MEMS devices (micro and nano machined chip based

sensors, actuators, structures and electronics) enabling extreme miniaturisation

n Wideband miniaturised gravity sensors

n Ion sensing

n Perpetually powered sensors

n Commoditised magnetometers

n Si platform quantum sensing

n New optical sources for gas sensing

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Tel: 0141 330 3876Email: info@censis.org.uk

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