By monitoring the impact of dredging in real time, activity can proceed within environmentally agreed limits via text messages sent directly to the dredging vessel's bridge.

Tough, lightweight and easy to deploy, the DataBuoy is being used by Poole Harbour Commissioners to collect baseline environmental data and to monitor dredging operations in the commercial port area. Triskel Marines says that Poole Harbour's interest 'vindicates the "small is beautiful" route.'

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