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A major collaborative pilot scheme on Galway Bay called SmartBay, which is using a range of technologies to produce and collate useful marine and coastal data for businesses, researchers, local authorities and beachgoers. The project could benefit aquaculture, tourism, climate research, fishing and the environment.
“SmartBay is really moving us into the age where people can look at very complicated data sets in the way they’d like,” says Robert McCarthy, IBM innovative environmental solutions manager, working out of its Dublin Innovation Centre.
IBM is one of the key partners in the Marine Institute-driven project, which draws in data from everything from sensors attached to anchored buoys out on the bay, to weather gauges, to simple text messages from fisherman about their catch or boaters regarding potentially dangerous floating objects.