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SmartBay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site
SmartBay is Ireland’s national marine test site and observatory that provides continuous oceanographic and environmental data in near-real time. It hosts three types of facilities: a test site, data buoy, and subsea cabled observatory. These facilities can be accessed by users to test innovative and novel marine technologies. The test site is ideally suited to facilitating the long-term deployment of sensors within a surface, or subsea environment. The SmartBay facility supports the test, demonstration and validation of novel technologies and products through deployments and data collection in a real marine-world environment. Support from a multidisciplinary team is provided to users throughout the project life-cycle.
- Wave
- Tidal
- Open Ocean: Main body of ocean, not enclosed or partially enclosed by land
- Coastal: Open water near the coast, spanning between land and shelf boundary
- Enclosed Bay: water that is partially surrounded by land, with a mouth open to larger water
- Constricted Channel: A channel where water flows quickly due to narrowing by the land
- River: Water flowing from land towards a larger body of water
Citation Formats
“SmartBay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site.” Marine Energy Projects Database: Test Sites, PRIMRE, United States Department of Energy, https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Test_Sites/SmartBay_Marine_and_Renewable_Energy_Test_Site. Accessed <day> <monthRoman> <year>.
Marine Energy Projects Database: Test Sites. <year>. "SmartBay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site." Accessed <monthRoman> <day>, <year>. https://openei.org/wiki/PRIMRE/Databases/Projects_Database/Test_Sites/SmartBay_Marine_and_Renewable_Energy_Test_Site.
Last modified: 29 January 2024