El proyecto OCEAN MASTER para el desarrollo de un vehículo no tripulado multimisión está nominado a los premios FINE.

Ha sido desarrollado por el consorcio formado por ELINCO, AISTER, GHENOVA, AID y SAES. Está concebido para adaptarse a todo tipo de plataformas navales.

El proyecto “Ocean Master”, del consorcio formado por ELINCO, AISTER, GHENOVA, AID y SAES, ha quedado finalista en la categoría “Proyecto de ingeniería marítimo destacado”. Para la valoración, se han tenido en cuenta los criterios de innovación en la construcción y diseño, utilización de materiales innovadores, mejoras y beneficios originados, así como el valor para la sociedad y la industria marítima. También ha participado Navantia como observador del proyecto mostrando un gran interés por los resultados y tecnología.

Los galardones se entregarán el próximo 12 de febrero en Bilbao, coincidiendo con la World Maritime Week (WMW). SAES asistirá a dicho evento además de participar en la feria como expositor. A la entrega de premios FINE (Fomento de la Industria Naval Española) asistirán los principales directivos y personalidades del sector (armadores, astilleros, instituciones, asociaciones, industria auxiliar, etc.). Además, el evento cuenta con la presencia y apoyo de Navalia, Sinaval, Cepesca, Clúster Marítimo Español, Asociación de Ingenieros Navales y Oceánicos de España y Anave., entre otras instituciones.

Proyecto OCEAN MASTER  (Vehículo Autónomo Multipropósito para diferentes ambientes y roles en operaciones oceánicas).

El proyecto OCEAN MASTER está enfocado al desarrollo de un vehículo no tripulado multimisión. Su configuración es modular y tiene capacidad de realizar misiones en ambientes altamente complejos y demandantes. Este vehículose adapta a todo tipo de plataformas navales mediante un sistema de despliegue y transporte propio.

La participación de SAES en OCEAN MASTER se centra en dos aspectos: carga útil del vehículo y comunicaciones acústicas entre vehículos o entre un vehículo y superficie. Como carga útil se emplea un Sonar de Barrido Lateral (SBL) para realizar levantamientos de fondos y vigilancia de canales y aproximaciones a puertos. También un sonar de detección de buceadores y de objetos en la columna de agua. Como sistema de comunicaciones se utiliza un enlace de datos acústico para permitir el intercambio de comandos y datos.

Soluciones de seguridad y medición submarina.

Durante la celebración de la WMW, SAES contará con un stand (D21) en la zona expositiva de la feria. Se mostrará un modelo del sonar DDS-03 para detección de buceadores dirigido a la protección de infraestructuras críticas y buques. Además, se exhibirá una maqueta del hidrófono digital inteligente SDH. Este dispositivo está dirigido a la realización de mediciones acústicas en el mar y es especialmente útil para la comprobación de requisitos medioambientales en lo relativo a emisiones acústicas.

Subvención europea.

OCEAN MASTER fue seleccionado en la convocatoria FEDER Innterconecta 2015. Ha estado cofinanciado por CDTI (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) y fondos FEDER a través del Programa Operativo de Crecimiento Inteligente 2014-2020. Se ha desarrollado en las comunidades de Andalucía, Galicia, Madrid y Murcia. Está prevista su finalización en marzo de 2018 y cuenta con un presupuesto global de 2.138.782 €.

SAES muestra sus soluciones de defensa en ADM Sevilla

SAES ha expuesto sus soluciones para aviones y helicópteros anti-submarinos en el evento más importante español dedicado al sector aeroespacial.

SAES ha estado presente un año más en este importante encuentro profesional celebrado en Sevilla, del 15 al 18 de mayo, dónde se han reunido los principales fabricantes, contratistas y empresas del sector aeronáutico.

 

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SAES ofrece avanzados sistemas para lucha antisubmarina para los segmentos aéreos y de superficie basados en sonoboyas. Dichos sistemas permiten la detección, rastreo y clasificación de submarinos, e incorporan avanzadas técnicas de procesamiento acústico para todo tipos de sonoboyas pasivas y activas, implementadas analógica y digitalmente.

 

Las soluciones ASW permiten la administración remota de misiones ASW, el análisis post-misión y la capacitación de operadores acústicos. Los sistemas ROASW, SPAS y el analizador acústico FTAS han acaparado el interés de los visitantes.

 

SPAS y ROASW son dos potentes sistemas acústicos que incorporan las técnicas más avanzadas de procesado para todo tipo de sonoboyas pasivas y activas, en implementación analógica y digital. Están disponibles para todo tipo de plataformas: buques de superficie, aviones MPA y helicópteros ASW. ROASW está especialmente diseñado para helicópteros ASW y buques de pequeño porte y proporciona multiestatismo e interoperabilidad entre las distintas plataformas ASW desplegadas en la misión. Por otra parte, FTAS es un analizador acústico de señales que permite el análisis a distintas velocidades (x1 / 2, x1/4, x1, x2, x4, x8 y x16) de señales acústicas y provee información táctica de las sonoboyas desplegadas durante la misión ASW (de acuerdo a la STANAG 4283 Ed. 6). Además, proporciona herramientas para elaborar una base de datos de inteligencia acústica (ACINT).

 

Estos sistemas permiten aumentar el éxito de la misión ASW y están a bordo de todo tipo de plataformas a servicio de las Armadas de España y de diferentes países en cuatro continentes.

 

Agreement between SAES and the “Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena”

SAES will support the Cartagena rowing club in order to promote the nautical sports.

 

The general director of SAES, Antonio Cordero and the president of the “Real Club de Regatas de Cartagena (RCRC)”, José García-Bravo, have signed a collaboration agreement in order to support the nautical sports activities.

 

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By this agreement, all the modalities of nautical sports will be promoted, especially the canoeing. SAES will provide an annual economic aid in order to the Club invest it into the development of activities for promoting sports. The RCRC will offer discounts to the SAES employees to participate in the courses and sports activities organized by the club.

 

The company undertake this action as a part of its corporate culture, committed on values such as respect and effort, as essential in sports as in the business and also reinforce its connections with the sea.

SAES and the University of Murcia renew a Chair for technology transfer.

The “SAES Chair in Open Source and Critical real-time Applications”, started in 2009, is renewed up to the 2019, reaching 10 years of collaboration.

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The «SAES Chair in Open Source and Critical real-time Applications» is an Research & Development initiative developed by the UMU (University of Murcia) and SAES (Sociedad Anónima de Electrónica Submarina), being funded by SAES. Those entities are collaborating for more than 10 years, since 2006 when they started to develop the together works. In 2009, the Chair was created and thus it strengthened the Research and Development activities.

 

It have been signed its fifth biennial renewal (for the period 2017-2019) in a public ceremony in the university of Murcia chaired by the Rector Dr. D. José Orihuela Calatayud and de General Director of .SAES, Sr. D. Antonio Cordero.

 

 

In-house technology

The SAES general director has highlighted the innovation as one of the foundation of the company that “invest in own Research and Development about the 10% of its budget”. Also, SAES collaborates with several Universities and participate in international and national R&D projects. In this context, the SAES Chair allows to SAES and the UMU to develop their knowledge in free software and real-time-critical software applications. This is a capital issue for a company, which possess a specialized software department, one of the base of the company. Thus, we can provide in-house technology without extern dependence” the SAES general director said.

 

 

The Chair, led by professors Dr. D. Diego Sevilla Ruiz and Dr. D. Gregorio Martínez Pérez, has improved the software & communication development process in areas such as the Big Data, databases NoSQL and the modeling of the automatic test software.

 

During the ceremony, the Rector has emphasized that on one side, this collaboration allows turning technological results into competitive advantages and productivity increase for the company and, on the other side, the university can better oriented the researches to the needs of the market and of the companies involved.

SAES celebrated the tenth anniversary of the center of San Fernando

SAES, which was founded 27 years ago in Cartagena, opened his workplace in San Fernando 10 years ago, to carry out projects associated with major programs such as submarines S-80 or F-100 frigates.

 

The commemoration of the tenth anniversary of SAES San Fernando began with a dinner on 7th October, and was attended by workers of the company, headed by President of SAES, D. Alfredo Gordo and the director of the company, D. Antonio Cordero. Both gave speeches in which highlighted the good prospects of the company, based on the good work of workers who are highly specialized.

 

SAES, which is considered to be as a strategic national company, works closely with the Spanish Ministry of Defense. In the last years it has opened new international markets working successfully such as Asia, America, Europe, Latin America .Today SAES has virtually customers in all continents. In addition, a large number of equipment developed by SAES has dual applications in the civilian security and environmental protection, contributing to strengthen a project based on the basis of its shareholders NAVANTIA, INDRA and THALES.

 

SAES, as the president said, «Today it has a special place in the Spanish industrial factory, being an international benchmark in the segment of the submarine electronics.»

 

Moreover, the event counted on the attendance of Admiral Head of Arsenal of Cadiz, Vice Admiral D. Santiago Ramón Gómez González, and the Director of Systems Engineering of Navantia, D. Francisco Lopez and the Security Chief Bay of Cadiz, D .Pedro Pérez-Seoane Garau.

 

As part of this commemoration, workers were given awards for those one has working 25 years in SAES.

 

The celebrations were supplemented with acts of coexistence and pleasure, as the tour of the Spanish Navy Observatory in San Fernando, with the participation of workers families, being the union and team work as the greatest strengths of the company.

SAES shows their Diver Detection System at the Monaco Yacht Show

The DDS-03 is being showcased in the NAVANTIA booth (QP45), at Monaco Yacht Show, from the 28th September to 1st October.

 

At sea, the threats coming at surface water can be easily detected by radar and visually, but usually there is a gap on underwater security. A diver or a small underwater vehicle can evade the traditional surveillance systems and endanger the superyacht and their guests.

 

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The DDS-03 is an underwater security and safety system specially designed for the detection of divers and other threats as underwater vehicles that can be used for the surveillance and protection of anchored ships and ports.

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When DDS-03 detects and tracks a threat, automatically generates an alert indicating its position, distance, trajectory and type of contact, allowing cast a deterrent message to the diver or send a patrol to the area. The automatic detection, classification and tracking functions provides reliable alerts of multiple underwater targets with minimal false alarms.

 

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The DDS systems has different ways of deployment depending on the operational use and zones to be protected. It can be easy deployment ‘over the side’ of a superyatch, manually or using a davit crane, and also can be installed in a harbour piers or in the sea bottom, in order to protect any port or infrastructure.

 

The system, that accomplished with the most rigorous exigencies since their development initially emerged under military high requirements, has also been designed to be simple and intuitive, in fact no specialist operator is required.

 

By the DDS-03 Diver Detection Sonar, the yacht owners can feel there are not underwater gaps in security, and also the managers of the most important ports, can offer a total security for the docked yachts.

 

 

Effects of noise on marine fauna and flora. Only acoustic noise?

SAES will present next week a study in the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life Conference which deepens on the possible adverse effects of the underwater energy emissions on marine life. The results show that additionally to acoustic noise, other emissions, such as magnetic and electrical require measurement and study.

 

The study will be presented in poster format next Tuesday (12th of July) at 16:30 h by Antonio Sánchez, the head of I+D+i of SAES (Sociedad Anónima de Electrónica Submarina).

 

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Resumen del Artículo

 

The growing human activity in the marine environment is generating an increasing impact on this field in general and on the marine fauna in particular. This activity produces a wide variety of kind of pollutions, some of which, as is the case of  hydrocarbon or plastic spills, have traditionally been treated, but other ones, as underwater energy radiations, has started to receive a generalized attention from the scientific community and the society in general since much more recent dates.

 

These radiations with potential negative impact on marine fauna, as reflected in the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), are not limited to the acoustic influence but other influences as the electric and magnetic ones are also included. On this basis, it becomes necessary to have at our disposal systems than let us to register and analyse these influences to determine their levels, evolution and potential damage on marine fauna.

 

In this context, this study shows the outcomes of the analysis of the acoustic, electric and magnetic background noise from a set of measurement campaigns that took place in an environment of intense human activity in the Mediterranean Sea. These analyses show very significant increments of these radiations in comparison with the values reported in the international literature.

 

Additionally, and on the basis of the gained experience, an autonomous integrated system to detect and analyse acoustic, electric and magnetic radiations is presented.

 

MIRS – Sistema empleado para la medición de las emisiones de los buques.

 

El sistema de medida de firmas (MIRS) para buques de superficie y submarinos desarrollado por SAES, proporciona medidas reales de las influencias de un buque (magnética, presión, eléctrica, acústica y sísmica) en un escenario real y controlado, para contrarrestar con éxito las amenazas. Se encuentra entre los más avanzados sistemas de su clase y en relación a las estaciones fijas. Una ventaja decisiva del sistema MIRS es que, gracias a su portabilidad, bajo peso y consumo y altas prestaciones se pueden obtener las firmas del buque en distintas ubicaciones geográficas.

 

MIRS es también una herramienta para prueba y calibración de:

·         Sistemas destinados a reducir las influencias de los buques como los sistemas de degaussing, ASG, etc.

·         Sistemas MCM como las rastras de influencia.

 

MIRS ha sido diseñado utilizando principalmente equipos COTS (Comercial Off The Self) para garantizar la máxima fiabilidad al menor coste.

SAES sponsors the Golf Navy Championship one year more

The Admiral Chief of Naval Staff, who chaired the closing ceremony of the tournament, was among the 100 participants.

The XXXV Golf Navy Championship took place at the Mondariz Golf Course (Pontevedra) between 10 and 11 June 2016, with the participation of some 100 players who came from different Spanish cities.

 

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The closing ceremony was chaired by the Hon. Mr. Admiral Chief of Naval Staff Jaime Muñoz-Delgado y Díaz del Rio, with the assistance of various civil and military authorities, and the representation of collaborating companies, as SAES, on whose behalf attended by President Alfredo Gordo.

 

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Participants were divided into three categories according to their handicaps, playing in the form of stableford handicap. The champion of the Navy was established by the best result «scratch» within the game mode programmed (stable ford scratch). D. José María García Sánchez, FLOAN-4ª squadron, won the first place in the final Scratch Classification.

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SAES, which supports the championship since 2009, spreads the health benefits of playing golf and promotes the core values of sport, such as concentration, discipline, desire to excel and socializing.

Naval Mine Warfare Conference at Belgium

SAES has participated at the MARCOM-chaired annual NATO Naval Mine Warfare Conference, hosted by the NATO Naval Mine Warfare Centre of Excellence (NMW COE) from 21 to 23 June 2016.

 

16 NATO- and partner nations and several naval mine warfare entities were represented at this conference.

 

EGUERMIN started as a Belgian-Netherlands Naval Mine Warfare school in 1965 and, since 2006, it is the NATO Naval Mine Warfare Centre of Excellence (NMW COE).

 

SAES is a company at the forefront of market in development and manufacturing of multi-influence naval mines and limpet naval mines. EGUERMIN, that visited SAES at the begginig of the year, shows at its «Mine Display Room» in Belgium, 2 mock-ups of Limpet mine, courtesy of SAES, to enrich their exhibition.

 

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The OCEAN MASTER project for the development of an autonomous multi-purpose vehicle achieves the first year.

The main objective of this project is the design, development and validation of an unmanned underwater vehicle able to carry out missions in highly complex and demanding environments.

 

The project, entitled «MULTIPURPOSE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FOR DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS AND ROLES IN OCEANIC OPERATIONS  (ITC-20151348)» is regarding a new generation of disruptive vehicles that will provide large capacities to their civilian or military users.logo OCEAN MASTER

 

SAES’ participation in OCEAN MASTER centers in two aspects: payload of the vehicle and communications between them. As payload are incorporated a Side Scan Sonar (SSS) to perform both bottom surveys and surveillance of channels and harbour accesses and a Diver Detection Sonar (DDS) to detect both divers and objects in the water column. As communication system, an acoustic data link is used to allow the interchange of commands and data between the vehicles.

 

OCEAN MASTER is a multi-regional project being developed in Andalucía, Galicia and Murcia and has a duration of 2 years and a half. The validation sea trials of the last generation unmanned vehicle prototype have been scheduled for December 2017.

 

OCEAN MASTER is supported by Spain and Europe

 

Due to the technological jump posed in the project, as well as the high capacity and experience of the consortium, the OCEAN MASTER project has been selected in the INTERCONECTA 2015 program and is being supported by CDTI, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and the European Regional Development Fund in the 2014-2020 Technological Fund Operational Program.

 

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It is intended to take advantage of the existing knowledge in industries as the naval, electric or electronic ones and auxiliary industries so that their activity can be reactivated in an important degree, implying also the creation of new products, processes and services of strategic interest for the implied sectors. At the same time it is intended that the project boosts the leadership and international positioning in the unmanned marine vehicles sector, strengthening the wealth and employment generation capacity of the Spanish naval industry.

 

Companies participating in OCEAN MASTER

 

The consortium of this project integrates 4 companies with large technical and technological capacity to address the tasks with all the guarantees.

 

  • ELINCO integrates a team of technicians with a high professional quality and experience to develop projects, being specialized in the design and realization of all kind of electrical installations, manufacturing of electrical panel boards and control consoles, repair of electromechanical equipments, products and services directed to the naval and industrial sectors.
  • GHENOVA is an international multidisciplinary engineering and consulting company that works in the sectors needing an integral solution. The company participates in large projects of high technological complexity for some of the world’s largest firms in the naval, offshore oil & gas, industry and energy, infrastructure, aeronautic and defense sectors.  In nine years of history, GHENOVA has become an engineering of reference in Spain, recognized company in Europe and successfully stablished in Latin America.
  • SAES is a highly specialized and internationally recognized company in the electronic and underwater acoustic fields. Its main objectives are the design, manufacturing, assembly, installation, repair, maintenance, import, export and distribution of equipments, tools and electric, electronic and acoustic systems in its most wide sense and centered in the underwater necessities.
  • AISTER Integrates 5 divisions related with the naval sector: naval accommodation, thermal isolation and naval carpentry, ship repair and aluminum boiler works, marinas and aquiculture.  With regards the three first activities, AISTER has been working with and for the main shipbuilders of the Vigo estuary and others of the rest of Spain.

 

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