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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 35Over the last twenty years, AXYS has continued to grow its marine product portfolio and increase market share with major buoy networks in Italy, Colombia, Spain, Portugal, the United States, and Brazil. In recent years, AXYS has diversified with new hydrological products for freshwater monitoring, and teamed up with athird party to offer the worlds first offshore wind resource assessment buoy. Technology profile: AXYS designs, builds, deploys, and services a variety of marine products including moored buoys for weather, wave, and sea state forecasting, as well as buoys for spe- cialized applications such as renew- able energy resource assessment, tsunami, red tide, and oil spill detec- tion. The new AXYS WindSentinel is the worlds first wind resource assess- ment buoy, designed to gather data at turbine hub-height and across the blade span. Other AXYS products include the WatchMan500 controller, designed to provide desktop to sensor monitoring and control, including dynamic onboard control and data storage capabilities. The company also provides full data hosting and management services. Harry Weiler