Objective Expansion of offshore oil & gas fields is inevitable. This will require significant investment in new pipelines to bring the resource onshore. 10,000km of pipelines form part of the oil & gas infrastructure in the North Sea. Combined with the huge growth in the installation of offshore wind farms & telecommunication networks, many thousands of kilometres of newly installed subsea cables & pipelines (CPs) will be required. It is critical that such underwater infrastructure is properly managed over its lifetime to ensure proper laying, inspection, quality maintenance, quick repair and comprehensive decommissioning.Existing state-of-the-art cannot currently provide a complete lifecycle solution. The SonaTag project will develop a novel low-cost position, location & identification passive underwater tag and a custom designed sonar system designed to ‘see’ the tags. SonaTag will offer CP laying contractors a means to greatly reduce the cost of CP laying operations, thereby ensuring its initial adoption in the market. Downstream stakeholders such as IMR (Inspection Maintenance and Repair) crews and governments will have the means to locate and uniquely identify these vital assets.The system will provide a robust environmentally sound solution for longterm lifecycle tagging by achieving the following objectives: specialised sonar with transmit power adequate for deployment (220 dB) at transmit end to achieve operational accuracy of +/- 0.1m @ 10m to 1000m range; the ability to detect range & position of tag in 5secs @ 1000m and 2 secs @ 10m from sonar transceiver; inert tag device with detectability in high noise environments i.e. seabed.Using this solution the project expects to comprehensively address the problem of unmanaged critical underwater infrastructure & address the high operation costs of laying CPs. In doing so, we will deliver €45 million in revenue with a profit of €9.3 million to the SME partners after 5 years, while creating over 100 high skill jobs. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energynatural gasengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energywind power Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2013-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2013 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator SUBSEA ASSET LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED EU contribution € 448 113,75 Address Portland marina 19 DT5 1DX Portland United Kingdom See on map Region South West (England) Dorset and Somerset Dorset Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Carl Tiltman (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all NEXTIS SAS France EU contribution € 195 348,25 Address Rue georges eastman parc dactivites des bords de saone 12-14 71100 Chalon sur saone See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Catherine Blanc (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Silicone Solutions Limited United Kingdom EU contribution € 130 130,00 Address Carlyle house, chorley new road 78 BL1 4BY Bolton See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Geoff Vickers (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DRUMGRANGE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 257 470,00 Address Hanworth lane -the forum unit a KT16 9JX Chertsey surrey See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Colin Mead (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data SONARSIM LTD Ireland EU contribution € 186 041,00 Address Hartnett enterprise acceleration centre limerick institute of technology moylish park V94 Limerick See on map Region Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact James Riordan (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 8 992,00 Address Pera business park nottingham road LE13 0PB Melton mowbray See on map Region East Midlands (England) Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire Leicestershire CC and Rutland Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Paul Tattersall (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION Spain EU contribution € 4 625,00 Address Parque cientifico y tecnologico de gipuzkoa, paseo mikeletegi 2 20009 Donostia-san sebastian (gipuzkoa) See on map Region Noreste País Vasco Gipuzkoa Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Javier Del Ser (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NOVAMINA CENTAR INOVATIVNIH TEHNOLOGIJA DOO Croatia EU contribution € 4 280,00 Address Jackovinsli klanec 17 10000 Zagreb See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Jasmina Petrinović (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data