Development of an intelligent mooring system specific for a floating intelligent meteorological tower for the characterization of wind and marine environment resources

 The principal objective of this project is to develop a floating meteorological tower to measure and characterize wind resources in deep water through the implementation of intelligent systems on the structure, installation and operation.

The specific objective is the design and development of a floating structure that, through an intelligent system of sensors and instruments, permits the characterization of wind and marine environment resources and also the design and development of an intelligent mooring system for deep water floating devices applicable for both measurement systems and future floating wind turbines anchor systems. The development of the technologies involved in intelligent moorings systems will permit monitoring the state of health and safety of the system.

This structure will consist of a measurement system for wind resource and marine environment characterization unavailable on the market. This constitutes a prerequisite and necessary step for site definition and installation of offshore wind farms.

As part of this Project and within the Mooring System Design and Development Task, led by IDERMAR, CTC is responsible for the following subtasks, while receiving input from the rest of the Consortium members:

• Definition of specifications.
• Design and development of a methodology to carry out intelligent mooring systems.