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TEXCEL WINS NEW CABLED OCEAN OBSERVATORY CONTRACT
Texcel Technology Plc has won a new contract valued in
excess of £1 million from L3-MariPro located in Santa Barbara, California for the design and
manufacture of both hardware and software elements of the Regional Scale Nodes
(RSN) cabled ocean observing system.
Texcel was selected by L-3 MariPro due to its successful track record in the
area of high reliability subsea design, manufacturing and telemetry solutions.
The RSN system, led by the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, is a component of
the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Ocean Observatories Initiative
(OOI). The system will be a vast network of ocean observing sensors and
mobile robots interconnected by nearly 800 km of fiber optic cable on the Juan
de Fuca Plate off the Washington and Oregon coasts.
Peter Shawyer, Commercial Director: "The company is delighted to have been appointed to this exciting new project. It demonstrates Texcel's considerable subsea expertise and skills in innovation."
Texcel will supply the science nodes Low Voltage Power and Control System
(LVPS). The LVPS includes a 375 VDC power converter, port controller and
state of health telemetry. The LVPS will include the hardware and the control
firmware designed and manufactured to stringent operating requirements of the
deep sea for 25-year life.
In addition Texcel will be supplying the shore based
Network Management System (NMS) for the overall system solution including both
the wet (sub-sea) and dry (shore) based sub-systems.
For further information please contact: requestmoreinfo@texceltechnology.com
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