SONATAG

"Development of a passive location and identification sonar tag for assisting in the laying, installation and long term monitoring of subsea cables and pipelines"

Coordinatore	SUBSEA ASSET LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED    more  Organization address address: PORTLAND MARINA 19 city: PORTLAND postcode: DT5 1DX contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Carl Cognome: Tiltman Email: send email Telefono: +44 1305820321
Nazionalità Coordinatore	United Kingdom [UK]
Totale costo	1˙607˙244 €
EC contributo	1˙235˙000 €
Programma	FP7-SME Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs
Code Call	FP7-SME-2013
Funding Scheme	BSG-SME
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-11-01   -   2016-01-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	SUBSEA ASSET LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED  Organization address address: PORTLAND MARINA 19 city: PORTLAND postcode: DT5 1DX contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Carl Cognome: Tiltman Email: send email Telefono: +44 1305820321	UK (PORTLAND)	coordinator	448˙113.75
2	DRUMGRANGE LIMITED  Organization address address: HANWORTH LANE -THE FORUM UNIT A city: CHERTSEY SURREY postcode: KT16 9JX contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Colin Cognome: Mead Email: send email Telefono: +44 1305862122	UK (CHERTSEY SURREY)	participant	257˙470.00
3	NEXTIS SAS  Organization address address: RUE GEORGES EASTMAN PARC DACTIVITES DES BORDS DE SAONE 12-14 city: CHALON SUR SAONE postcode: 71100 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Catherine Cognome: Blanc Email: send email Telefono: +33 385489526	FR (CHALON SUR SAONE)	participant	195˙348.25
4	SONARSIM LTD  Organization address address: HARTNETT ENTERPRISE ACCELERATION CENTRE city: LIMERICK contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: James Cognome: Riordan Email: send email Telefono: +353 87 9870201	IE (LIMERICK)	participant	186˙041.00
5	Silicone Solutions Limited  Organization address address: "Carlyle House, Chorley New Road 78" city: Bolton postcode: BL1 4BY contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Geoff Cognome: Vickers Email: send email Telefono: +44 1204863290	UK (Bolton)	participant	130˙130.00
6	THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: OXFORDSHIRE postcode: OX25 5PT contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Paul Cognome: Tattersall Email: send email Telefono: +44 1664501501	UK (OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	8˙992.00
7	FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION  Organization address address: PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE MIRAMON PASEO MIKELETEGI 2 city: DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN postcode: 20009 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Javier Cognome: Del Ser Email: send email Telefono: +34 946 430 850	ES (DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN)	participant	4˙625.00
8	NOVAMINA CENTAR INOVATIVNIH TEHNOLOGIJA DOO  Organization address address: JACKOVINSLI KLANEC 17 city: Zagreb postcode: 10000 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Jasmina Cognome: Petrinovi? Email: send email Telefono: +385 13499 836 Fax: +385 1 3793 345	HR (Zagreb)	participant	4˙280.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Expansion of offshore oil & gas fields is inevitable. This will require significant investment in new pipelines to bring the resource onshore. 10,000km of pipelines form part of the oil & gas infrastructure in the North Sea. Combined with the huge growth in the installation of offshore wind farms & telecommunication networks, many thousands of kilometres of newly installed subsea cables & pipelines (CPs) will be required. It is critical that such underwater infrastructure is properly managed over its lifetime to ensure proper laying, inspection, quality maintenance, quick repair and comprehensive decommissioning.

Existing state-of-the-art cannot currently provide a complete lifecycle solution. The SonaTag project will develop a novel low-cost position, location & identification passive underwater tag and a custom designed sonar system designed to ‘see’ the tags. SonaTag will offer CP laying contractors a means to greatly reduce the cost of CP laying operations, thereby ensuring its initial adoption in the market. Downstream stakeholders such as IMR (Inspection Maintenance and Repair) crews and governments will have the means to locate and uniquely identify these vital assets.

The system will provide a robust environmentally sound solution for longterm lifecycle tagging by achieving the following objectives: specialised sonar with transmit power adequate for deployment (220 dB) at transmit end to achieve operational accuracy of /- 0.1m @ 10m to 1000m range; the ability to detect range & position of tag in 5secs @ 1000m and 2 secs @ 10m from sonar transceiver; inert tag device with detectability in high noise environments i.e. seabed.

Using this solution the project expects to comprehensively address the problem of unmanaged critical underwater infrastructure & address the high operation costs of laying CPs. In doing so, we will deliver €45 million in revenue with a profit of €9.3 million to the SME partners after 5 years, while creating over 100 high skill jobs.'