Project Sense introduces a cost efficient system that uses drones equipped with environmental sensors to sample ship plumes and detect non-compliant emissions during cruise. By combining sensor data with AIS data and advanced analysis, the system can report violations of emission regulations in real-time to enable effective enforcement. Project Sense takes an innovative approach with low-cost drones to monitor ship emissions and does not require highly sensitive sensors. It can scale quickly to cover many geographies simultaneously using inexpensive, ready-available hardware and custom software to handle large amounts of data.

1. PROJECT SENSE
Monitoring Emissions from Ships During Cruise

2. PROJECT SENSE
Project Sense introduces a cost efficient and reliable system
for monitoring emissions from ships during cruise using low-
cost drones equipped with environmental sensors to sample
plumes. In combination with AIS data and advanced data
analysis the system can detect non-compliant behavior and
report back in real-time, enabling effective enforcement of the
emission regulations.
Project Sense is very innovative in both its approach to air
sampling overall and the use of drones as a way of monitoring
ships during cruise.

3. Most air sampling technologies today that measure air quality
rely on expensive sensor technologies with a very high level
of sensitivity. Project Sense takes the opposite approach – if
we can get close enough, we don’t need sensitivity. We just
need to be able to tell if the sulphur content is above or below
the 0.1 % limit applicable from 1 January 2015.

4. Project Sense has the
ability to scale the solution
quickly and to cover a
multitude of geographies at
the same time, thus
ensuring an enforcement
impact on a large scale.
Project Sense is based on
ready-available,
inexpensive hardware
components that can
easily be multiplied
combined with bespoke
software capable of
handling large amounts of
data.

5. To learn more about this and other innovative solutions
Go to OceanExchange(dot)Org
Project Sense is focused on the ship emission enforcement
task. However components of the technology, or even modified
versions of the existing platform, can be used in a multitude of
other industries and markets such as general air monitoring,
environmental enforcement on land-based sources, and
farming to name a few.