Current monitoring sensors deployed

Today we went to the Cap d’Agde Marina and deployed 14 current consumption sensors. Everything works well, we can now accurately know if a boat is consuming current or not. We are now testing two types of apparatus to measure current consumption. Below shows some results from the deployment. The…

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Boat-detecting sensors deployed

Four out of five prototype boat-detecting sensing nodes use a pair microwave motion sensors to monitor two adjacent berths continuously. When a vessel is parked, the sensor, mounted on the floating dock facing the body of the vessel, detects the relative motion between the dock and the vessel. There is…

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VIVA Technology Tradeshow

Thomas and Ziran will be at VivaTechnology in Paris on June 17 to promote SmartMarina project. SmartMarina will be featured in Hall 1 booth  D31, on 17 June. You are very welcome to drop by our booth during the all-day event. Program agenda: https://www.inria.fr/centre/paris/agenda/vivatechnologylink.  Event website: https://vivatechnology.com/    

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First network deployed!

We deployed a test network consisting of seven nodes at the heart of Cap d’ Adge marina.  This first deployment allows us to verify the connectivity between nodes in the marina environment. Over the weekend, all the nodes remained perfectly connected! We are now moving to the next task: testing the…

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Kick-off!

The Inria team took the 6am train from Paris to Cap d’Agde to meet with our new partners and start the SmartMarina project! Pierre Weiss (Sodéal) and Olivier Laporte (EcoToPort) received us and gave us a ton of useful information about the marina and the vision they have for its…

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