MS3: First sensor data transmission
A few weeks ago, the data provided by the sensorized system installed in one of our floating rafts became available through the network.
The growth of the shellfish sector in EU is nearly stagnant due to the increasing global competition and the saturation of the areas protected from swell where intensive farming is viable. OpenMode is launched by two companies to go beyond the resilient platforms tested in previous works, proposing floating connectable modules for intensive farming in open waters. Its main objective is to prove their capacity to bridge the sector gaps farming on four full-scale demonstrators in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and North Sea Basins. The fifth demonstrator aims to prove the capacity to transfer this affordable technology to other blue growth sectors.
The platform redesign towards portable and versatile modules will consider their interaction with the swell and the response of different connection systems. The integration of remote sensors to control water, weather and structural parameters will assure the surveillance, reduce operating costs and explain through big data analysis which factors affect the harvest growth rates.
Eight 140 m2 modules will be produced and floated in Spain, Denmark, Croatia, Montenegro and Malta, where local farmers will share them harvesting molluscs or macroalgae. They will learn through trainings how to use it to avoid predation, achieve more phytoplankton or scale-up compensation measures, sharing their user experience with the designers and other farmers. This will allow completing the market study and Life Cycle Assessment. Colloquiums and events will raise awareness of this sustainable farming and promote synergies with other EU programs. The project success will activate intense farming in high-potential unexploited areas, and become an efficient tool to combat eutrophication in North and Baltic sea. Sharing the modules during the project can grow into a cooperative business model for the farmers with fewer resources. Finally, the versatility and cost reduction reached will let it to be adapted for other blue growth sectors.
A few weeks ago, the data provided by the sensorized system installed in one of our floating rafts became available through the network.
The OpenMode project consortium board, integrated by RDC and PREFFOR board members, has met remotely, jointly with the project work package leaders…
The solution developed is a system of steel connections designed to connect 12 x 12 m floating modules. This connection generates longer structures…
The OpenMode project presented in Ipac Acuicultura, one of the most relevant aquaculture magazine in Spain, about the activity of our partners RDC and PREFFOR in two ongoing european projects. Download the article (pdf) here!
A great boost to raise awareness of our project: The first issue of OpenMode bulletin, published a few weeks ago, is advertised to over 900 subscribers to the European Horizon H2020 project ReSHEALience. Link to read the ReSHEALience newsletter.
We hope you enjoy finding out about our results, demonstrators, collaborations, and growth.
The prestressed precast elements of two of the modules of the OpenMode project are already produced by PREFFOR. The material used is the self-compacting Ultra-High Performance Concrete (UHPC) of the company, registered as Formex®.
The objective of this work was to understand the behaviour of the structure under extreme environmental conditions and the influence of the type of mooring on it.
The 5th International Symposium on Ultra-High Performance Concrete and High Performance Construction Materials also known as Hipermat! 2020 was held in Kassel, Germany from 11 to 13 March 11–13, 2020. E. Camacho, RDC’s innovation manager, presented the OpenMode project and its new floating modules adapted for open waters, connectable and sensorized that the project will…
The article was published on December 20th, 2019 in the Aquaculture Portal Mis Peces with the title: “La ingeniería RDC lidera un proyecto europeo para desarrollar el cultivo de mariscos en aguas abiertas”
Kick-off meeting for projects selected under the Call for Proposals: Sustainable Blue Economy EASME/EMFF/2018/1.2.1.7
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Pieces of first module in a 40’ container
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