ATTACH – Acoustic Tagging Technologies Applied to Cables and subsea Hardware
Lead Participant:
SUBSEA ASSET LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
Abstract
The ATTACH (Acoustic Tagging Technologies Applied to Cables and subsea Hardware) project is a three-way
collaboration between Subsea Asset Location Technologies (SALT) Ltd., Precision Acoustics Ltd. and the
University of Birmingham to carry out a feasibility study to identify remote-sensing, acoustical methods of
labelling high-value subsea energy assets, such as cables and pipelines.
It is not generally appreciated that finding an asset might take a significant amount of time and money as the
cable, or pipeline, might have been buried or moved as a result of ocean currents, the asset may then become
invisible to a sonar system. Thus any method of tracking the asset without having to excavate it would
dramatically reduce costs. The aim of this project is to design synthetic sonar targets that float above the asset
and are significantly easier to detect using a sonar system then the asset itself. One can imagine that being
able to see a string of such targets over a range of a few hundreds of metres (likened to cat’s-eyes whilst
driving at night) would dramatically increase the detectability of such assets.
collaboration between Subsea Asset Location Technologies (SALT) Ltd., Precision Acoustics Ltd. and the
University of Birmingham to carry out a feasibility study to identify remote-sensing, acoustical methods of
labelling high-value subsea energy assets, such as cables and pipelines.
It is not generally appreciated that finding an asset might take a significant amount of time and money as the
cable, or pipeline, might have been buried or moved as a result of ocean currents, the asset may then become
invisible to a sonar system. Thus any method of tracking the asset without having to excavate it would
dramatically reduce costs. The aim of this project is to design synthetic sonar targets that float above the asset
and are significantly easier to detect using a sonar system then the asset itself. One can imagine that being
able to see a string of such targets over a range of a few hundreds of metres (likened to cat’s-eyes whilst
driving at night) would dramatically increase the detectability of such assets.
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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SUBSEA ASSET LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED | £81,031 | £ 56,722 |
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Participant |
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UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM | £97,912 | £ 97,912 |
PRECISION ACOUSTICS LIMITED | £63,268 | £ 44,288 |
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ORCID iD |
Carl Tiltman (Project Manager) |