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$1.5m “Wave Energy Prize” Awarded

Wave Power

While the wave energy industry is in

The AquaHarmonics team, Alex Hag- muller and Max Ginsburg, stand with its infancy, the U.S. Department of En- its 1/20th scale device. ergy sought to use the $1.5m Wave En- ergy Prize as an impetus to kick it toward puberty, a contest which attracted 92 en- trants and involved more than a year and a half of design, re-design, construction totype devices at the Naval Surface War- and testing. fare Center’s Maneuvering and Seakeep-

In the end it was a duo from Portland, ing Basin at Carderock, Md.

Ore., Alex Hagmuller and Max Gins- “This competition set a dif? cult thresh- burg – together AquaHarmonics – were old of doubling the energy captured from named the winners of the $1.5 million ocean waves, and four teams surpassed grand prize for their AquaHarmonic- that goal,” said Lynn Orr, DOE’s Un- sWEC concept, a point absorber with der Secretary for Science and Energy. latching/de-clutching control. “AquaHarmonics’ technology leap in-

Though the contest of? cially kicked centivized by the Energy Department off in 2015, the team’s work together demonstrates how rapid innovation can (Photo: Wave Energy Prize) stretches about ? ve years, when Hag- be achieved in a public prize challenge.” muller started to build small scale wave In the next year, the Energy Depart- energy prototypes and enlisted Ginsburg, changes in the design. a panel of judges narrowed down the ment will publish data from all the ? nal- his friend from Oregon State University, “It’s been a project we’ve been work- competition pool to nine ? nalists and ist teams’ test results to further acceler- to help design the electrical components ing on since even before the Wave Ener- two alternates, which were announced in ate advancement of this sector.

and software. Together they built and gy Prize was announced,” Ginsburg said. March 2016. Each team received up to CalWave Power Technologies and tested several different wave energy pro- “As we progressed towards the ? nals, it $125,000 in seed funding to build scaled Waveswing America were awarded sec- totypes, and the knowledge gained from just got more and more exciting.” prototypes. With the support of the U.S. ond and third place, respectively, with each has led to many improvements and Over the course of the competition, Navy, the ? nalist teams tested their pro- $500,000 and $250,000 in cash prizes.

Flinders Ports Gets a COP

Saab has deployed its ? rst Common Operating Picture (COP): an exten- sion of its KleinPort port management information system (PMIS) that is designed to make ports more ef? cient and competitive. As of November 1, 2016, Flinders Ports in Australia began live utilization of the KleinPort COP.

KleinPort COP gives all authorized port stakeholders an easily accessible, map-based overview of their port. The information is layered to allow users to select only the data relevant to their area of responsibility.

Business staff get a high-level port overview and operations staff can ex- ecute routine tasks directly from the COP user interface. From a security (Image Courtesy Saab) and safety perspective, this data can be viewed in real-time by all parties involved, allowing for response coordination through one common view in tions, property, and cargo as well as to generate billing and execute reporting the event of an incident. at seven different ports. Flinders also uses KleinMobile, Saab’s mobile pilot

The Common Operating Picture couples the latest developments in Geo- application, to communicate pilot orders and receive completed job reports.

graphical Information System (GIS) technology with sophisticated Klein- “The Common Operating Picture gives us a seamless view of both land

Port data to create its port overview interface. Data including detailed cargo and sea operations. The technology’s in-built ef? ciencies have already information, vessel locations, vessel visit details, AIS transponder data, and boosted productivity and support our safety focus”, says Captain Carl Ka- emergency response vessel locations are just some examples of what can be vina, General Manager, Marine Operations, Flinders Ports. In addition to shared and dynamically updated in COP. the seven ports that it operates, Flinders owns and operates the container

The Common Operating Picture is an upgrade to the KleinPort port man- terminal in place at Port Adelaide. Flinders Ports was established in 2001 agement information system that was previously deployed for Flinders Ports. when the South Australia state government privatized the South Australian

Flinders are currently using KleinPort to manage and track vessel opera- Ports Corporation.

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