Entries for Ocean Observing Prize

We'll cover the base of a buoy with small piezoelectric strips. These strips “swim” in the waves, and this motion produces power.

Blue Star's compact design utilizes a robust power-take-off to provide reliable, continuous power and communications to a range of UUVs.

Unmoored, station-holding, ocean observation surface buoy.

Considering a common cylindrical shape, the Surface Riding WEC, developed as a DOE project, is embedded into the AUV so as to self-recharge.

Project Liberty will build and deploy one or more low-cost, autonomous surface vessels to collect data about the oceans of the world.

Nereus™ is a unique combination of wave energy conversion and piezoelectric technologies that consists of a Single Point Absorber (SPA)

DrumBuoy converts wave energy to electric energy with a patent-pending power generation plant on a buoyant platform moved up-down by waves.

Funding for large numbers of bcg ARGO's will come from corporate sponsors of our wave-powered Oxygenator upwelling/downwelling devices.

When the wave rolls, the torque is provided by the force of Archimedes, and when the wave decreases, by gravity.

SeaNRG is a power module that converts ocean thermal gradient directly to electrical energy to power ocean observing systems.

SeaNet is a self-powered mesh networking & telemetry system based on low-power, wide-area networking (LPWAN) and wave energy harvesting.

A free-floating or moored buoy for research or data acquisition. Powered by a low-wattage closed-loop turbine. www.wetgen.com/BUOY.htm

CalWave’s xNode is a self-charging light-weight power, data and sensor node enabling the advancement of the Ocean Internet of Things (OToT).

The MOON concept will transform marine ecosystem and fisheries monitoring studies into a science more consistent with ocean observing.

Make holes in the buoy, install water turbine below to obtain the power from the wave energy; the power changes with the wave height、period.

A small electrical generator that harvests changing pressures beneath the surface of the sea caused by waves and swells passing above.