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MTR100AXYS Technologies Inc. 2045 Mills Road Sidney, BC, Canada V8L5X2 Tel: 250-655-5850 Email: [email protected] Website: www.axystechnologies.com CEO/President: Harry Weiler Engineering Director: Reo Phillips Number of Employees: 40 AXYS has been designing, manufac- turing, deploying and servicing marine buoy systems for over 35 years. We provide clients with systems designed to provide real-time environmental data tailored to their speciÞ cations. AXYS is an international leader in marine envi- ronmental technologies with more than 500 meteorological and oceanographic systems built and deployed worldwide. The Tech: 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 specialized applications such as marine mammal monitoring, renewable energy resource assessment, tsunami, red tide, and oil spill detec-tion. A typical buoy measures wind speed and direction, atmospheric pres-sure, air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, water temperature, cur- rents, and directional waves. The AXYS WindSentinel is the worldÕs Þ rst wind resource assessment buoy capable of ac- curately gathering wind data at turbine hub-height and across the blade span. The AXYS WatchMan500 controller was designed as the next generation of payload for marine systems to provide desktop to sensor monitoring and con-trol, including dynamic onboard control and data storage capabilities. This con- troller is a solution for any application requiring data monitoring, collection, control, processing, or remote system management. AXYS now provides full data hosting and management services. Chelsea Technologies Group 55 Central Avenue West Molesey, Surrey, U.K. KT8 2QZ Tel: +44(0)2084819019 Email: [email protected] Website: chelsea.co.uk CEO/President: Dr. Brian Phillips Engineering Director: Dr. John Attridge Number of Employees: 35 Annual Sales: $3,500,000.00Chelsea Technologies Group (CTG) started life as a spin out from Imperial College. Over the last 50 years, it has developed an reputation as a manufac- turer of innovative sensors & systems for the military & civil oceanographic, environmental, acoustics & process con- trol markets. CTGÕs sensor technology is being pioneered for a range of ap-plications. It is being used to help sub-mariners understand the oceanographic environment within which they operate, monitor water supplies to guard against chemical attack by terrorists, & moni-tor oceanic algae & their response to climate change. For the last two years CTG has been working with Liquid Ro- botics to provide it with a number of UV AquaTracka hydrocarbon sensors for integration into their Wave Gliders. The UV AquaTracka is a standard for hydro- carbon detection, a reputation proven during the Macondo Oil Spill. The UV AquaTracka is so sensitive it can de- tect aromatic hydrocarbons diluted a thousand billion times in water. CTG is working on a number of other proj- ects including providing sensors to monitor ballast water to prevent the transfer of invasive marine species. It is also producing a new range of sen- sors to monitor ship exhaust scrub-bing systems thus preventing environ- mental pollution. The Tech: A team of experienced scientists and engineers is engaged in manufacture of a range of oceanographic sensors, sonar systems, acoustic transducers, towed vehicle system and shipÕs ß ow through sensors. CTG is leading the way in Fast Repetition Rate Fluorometer develop- ment. The recently launched FastOcean im- proves the accuracy of primary pro- ductivity measurements within diverse natural phytoplankton communities. Ap- plications include primary productivity measurements, coastal monitoring, algal bloom detection, ballast water monitor- ing & the protection of water supplies. Following on from the successful launch of the Lux range of miniature high per- formance ß uorometers, more than 200 units are in the Þ eld with users reporting excellent datasets. Applications include in-situ chlorophyll a & algae class stud-ies, dye tracing, particulate studies, hy-drocarbon & CDOM monitoring. CTG also has an established range of acous-tics transducers including hydrophones, projectors, towed arrays and military so- nar test & evaluation systems. CTG has a long history of working with navies and has supplied the Sonar 2115 ocean-ographic system for a ß eet wide instal- lation onboard the Royal NavyÕs new Astute class submarines. CTG is also providing post design services for sup- port of the Trafalgar Class Sonar 2081 submarine oceanographic sensor suite. July/August 2013 8 MTRMTR #6 (1-17).indd 8MTR #6 (1-17).indd 87/19/2013 10:26:25 AM7/19/2013 10:26:25 AM