Students from the SimLE Science Club operating at the Gdańsk University of Technology are developing a port drone that will monitor the cleanliness of the port basin from the water level and prevent any contamination. The drone is to be completed by the end of this year.
SeaSentinel will be equipped with sensors to check parameters such as water turbidity, temperature and possibly the pH value. The project is based on the concept of the port of the future. The trend that has been present on the market for years is automation and the desire to reduce the so-called human factor – a significant proportion of collisions in ports are caused by inadvertent human error.
This is a new undertaking of SimLE students. Currently, they are implementing the following projects: Stardust (missions of stratospheric balloons, cooperation with, among others, ESA); SimBa (creation of actively guided low-level missiles in cooperation with the Polish Rocket Society); Silverhand (construction of a hand prosthesis using 3D printing); Seafarer (construction of an autonomous sailing boat).
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