The current problems affecting the Environmental Monitoring market are the inadequate IT resources for marine data management and processing; the over-segmentation of the market in multiple solutions affecting the coherency of global assessments; and the use of unstandardized and/or black-box techniques preventing third-party quality check. AIMS resolves these problems by developing an integrated underwater marine data system including a network of data collection tools, a Big Data platform for data storage and processing, High Performance Computing technologies, and flexible Graphic Users Interfaces (GUI), providing clear environmental information and results available and accessible to a wide range of users worldwide.
AIMS therefore positions itself to be the reference platform for a performing and reliable decision and management framework in the Environmental Monitoring market. Thanks to these achievements, AIMS could substantially contribute to accelerate the production of scientific data and knowledge, particularly where important gaps still exist; it could democratize the use of current complex scientific methods, by widening the access to information. and hence supporting sustainable growth and job creation in the Blue Economy sector.
The project aims at assessing and comparing technological options for making the production chain operative, performant and fully automated. The business strategy supports its sustainability and market replication, to be further accomplished in Phase 2. At this stage, Phase 1, an analysis of key stakeholders, market size, competitive background and of threats/opportunities for entering the market has been performed. SINAY also had the objective of identifying the regulatory requirements of the product and setting up a strategy for the management of intellectual property rights (IPR) and for a Freedom to Operate analysis (FTO). Concerning the regulation, the main goal was understanding the constraints related to the use of data from marine open data platforms. Concerning the IPR and FTO, the objective was to understand how to best protect not only the whole solution, but also the different sub-divisions: data collection devices, software, processing algorithms, the connectors among each sub-division. Some of them may indeed be patented, while others appear to be better protected by copyrights. The protection of names and symbols (logo) of the solution in the marketplace is also assessed (trademark).
