Development subsea cable maintenance & monitoring

Subsea 7 is a leading subsea engineering, construction and services company for the offshore wind industry. The need for further cable innovation is great. Together with Subsea 7 subsidiary SOC, HICE, DHSS, TenneT, TKF, Van Oord, Merkur, Boskalis, Fieldlab Zephyros and the Noorderpoort, this consortium wants to develop research-based innovations for cabling and maintenance. The aim is to prevent cable breakage during transport and handling and to realise a new efficient way of repairing cables.

In cooperation with similar projects such as JIP CALM (Deltares), Fieldlab Zephyros, TNO and Marin want to develop a robotic subsea inspection project. Such an inspection tool will ensure that people are informed in time if cables start to move in and on the seabed, thus preventing damage. These innovations are being jointly developed in the Subsea Cable Lab in the OWIC.

The project includes the following activities:

Development of new system with logistic drums for cable handling
Mock up (and digital twin) of terminations and cable repair
Monitoring cables with robotised subsea inspections

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OWIC

Offshore Wind
Innovation Centre

OWIC is an information, training and innovation centre for companies and institutions involved in generating offshore wind energy. A total of 19 parties - businesses, knowledge institutions and government bodies - have joined forces in OWIC to ensure that companies can innovate and develop in offshore wind energy more easily and quickly.