Forth and Tay members
Miros Scotland Ltd
Business type: IoT wave and weather monitoring equipment and software supplier
Contact: Maggie McMillan, VP - Renewables
Address: 31 Abercrombie Court, Prospect Road, Arnhall Business Park, Westhill, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen AB32 6FE
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Countries worked in: UK, Denmark, France
Miros' dry-mounted, IoT-enabled sensors measure accurate and reliable local sea state data from offshore turbines, vessels or substations. The data is displayed on real-time dashboards via our Miros Cloud Platform. See live examples on www.miros.app. Our sensors are usually installed on vessels, turbines (fixed/floating), and substations to provide the various project stakeholders with access to real-time environmental, wave, and weather data in support of offshore wind farm construction, O&M, structural analysis, design verification, incident review, insurance claims, and lifetime extension. Due to the nature of our sensors being dry i.e not submerged in the water like wave buoys, this allows for an easy installation on a vessel or offshore installation with minimal to no maintenance required thereafter. Diagnostics and any upgrades can be done remotely. Making our system plug 'n' play allows users to focus on the data they need to inform their operational or safety decision-making no matter where, when, or on what devices data need to be accessed, decisions don't need to wait.
Capabilities
Established supplier with significant experience supplying the sector
- Pre-Construction Development Phase (DEVEX): Meteorological & Metocean Sensors
Good capacity and some experience in supplying the sector
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Marine Coordination or Shipping Services
- CAPEX - Balance of Plant - Manufacture / Supply Services: Vessels or Vessel Equipment Provision
Ambitions to diversify in the sector
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Marine Operations
- OPEX - Operations & Maintenance: Offshore Logistics including Accommodation / Base
Other services offered
- Miros IoT-enabled wave sensors can be installed in ports, on offshore wind support vessels, during survey, construction and operational, life extension and/or decommissioning phases of an offshore wind project. The sensors can be installed on fixed or floating offshore turbines and/or substations to provide real-time and historical sea state data to all project stakeholders. During the project design and planning phase Miros can offer a sensor optimisation placement study to ensure the project has the correct amount of dry-mounted wave radars to cover the entire site with a holistic overview of accurate sea state information to ensure safe and efficient offshore operations.
Case studies
Offshore access and operational planning decisions are typically made using weather forecasts which are largely based on hindcast models with coarse grids and limited availability of high-quality, real-time data. 2019, Miros began working with the operational team of Vattenfall’s Horns Rev1 which had experienced difficulties with its wave buoy and was becoming disillusioned with the traditional forecasting provided by metocean vendors. Data accessibility and sharing real-time, accurate data with stakeholders, including vendors and employees, within a safe and secure system, was also an issue and was hampering critical decision-making on necessary O&M, as well as a planned life extension activity. Miros installed five self-calibrating wave radars, RangeFinders, plus one standalone multiparameter weather sensor at strategic points across the site. This was to enable more efficient day-to-day O&M planning as well supporting life extension plans to the end of this decade. The IoT sensors measure highly accurate real-time sea state and weather parameters. This as well as historical data is easily accessed through the Miros Cloud platform utilising the latest Microsoft Azure software. The data is then visualised on a client-tailored user interface which can be accessed directly by any project stakeholder anytime. As the sensors are not submerged in water there are few maintenance requirements as the nature of the Miros cloud solution allows for remote troubleshooting and automatic software upgrades. Having quick and easy access to real-time data also contributes to avoiding wasted or aborted vessel trips and therefore also contributes to the overall reduction of CO2 emissions.
Contract type: Offshore access and operational planning decisions are typically made using weather forecasts which are largely based on hindcast models with coarse grids and limited availability of high-quality, real-time data. 2019, Miros began working with the operational team of Vattenfall’s Horns Rev1 which had experienced difficulties with its wave buoy and was becoming disillusioned with the traditional forecasting provided by metocean vendors. Data accessibility and sharing real-time, accurate data with stakeholders, including vendors and employees, within a safe and secure system, was also an issue and was hampering critical decision-making on necessary O&M, as well as a planned life extension activity.
Bibby WaveMaster1 is a walk-to-work vessel, uniquely designed with crew safety and comfort in mind. The vessel makes use of a motion-compensated gangway to transfer crew to and from assets for a wide range of offshore missions. When using the gangway connecting to an asset, a significant wave height limit is enforced ensuring safe and efficient personnel transfer. Traditional approaches involving the visual assessment of wave conditions can prove inaccurate. “We have carried out comparative studies and found poor correlation between the visually reported wave height and that measured by reference equipment,” explains Gijs Hulscher, Managing Director of BMO Offshore.
The Miros RangeFinder delivers accurate, reliable, real-time wave data to all relevant stakeholders. For Bibby Marine Services, RangeFinder feeds into BMO’s data management system, facilitating the monitoring of operational limits. In this way, RangeFinder not only impacts real-time operations, but with detailed project reports delivered to the Cloud, stakeholders based onshore also gain full access to the relevant information. Bibby found the system easy to install and were able to start gathering data immediately. “We connected the Miros RangeFinder and the data began to feed through right away,” said Rob Osborne, Support & Innovation Engineer at Bibby Marine Services. In addition, the ability to analyse historical operational data provides the potential for technical and operational improvements in subsequent missions. “As technology progresses, it provides a new tool to seamanship. It facilitates improvements upon what sea professionals already do,” added Gijs Hulscher, Managing Director of BMO Offshore.
