We started our first pilot in a pre-commercialisation phase in April 2019, for environmental monitoring of the Tagus Estuary in Lisbon to install the UNDERSEE_water device system in a passenger boat which navigates in a daily basis in the river. The pilot was succesfully activated in December 2019, and the boat will stay collecting water quality data to our cloud platform for 18 months and the customer will use the data to validate numerical models on water quality in the river.
During the Phase 1 our team conducted several interviews with potential customers and partners mainly in Portugal, Spain and Norway. We received Letters of Intent from potential customers from the relevant european stakeholders, both from aquaculture producers and environmental agencies. The UNDERSEE project was presented along with 12 other innovators on the main stage of the Aquaculture Innovation Summit in London, UK and our team attended the event AQUANOR at Trondheim, Norway. In both events, we had the opportunity to communicate our vision and get the firts engagement and interest from potential distributors of our service, which could be a great possibility for us in the future.
Phase 1 allowed us to test the market, to deeply study the technical and economic feasibility of our service and to plan the next steps carefully.