A consortium led by Atos has been selected by Ailes Marines – a company 100% owned by Iberdrola, in charge of the construction, installation and operation of an offshore wind farm in the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, France – to ensure marine coordination activities and implement mission critical communications solutions for its new wind farm project. With construction work on the farm set to begin in the first semester of 2021, Atos will ensure the smooth running of all activities at sea, with the final goal of support Iberdrola deliver clean, reliable energy for the environment.
Atos will implement a full operational marine coordination center located in Pleudaniel (Côtes-d’Armor, Brittany, France) to coordinate, monitor and document all traffic in and around the construction area, operating 24/7 during the construction stage. While building and managing a wind farm of 103 km2 is a very complex process where many operators and organizations are circulating in the offshore site, the Atos solution enables Ailes Marines to ensure that all of its on-site operations run smoothly and that only authorized people and equipment circulate in the area. This center will notably enable Ailes Marines’ teams to register and track vessels and their crew in real time for ultimate on-site security, to ensure safety of the offshore operations in the farm (including a ‘Permit to work’ system) or to plan and monitor offshore activities according to the weather forecast. For this coordination center, Atos will work in partnership with SeaRenergy, a leading provider of engineering services as well as offshore marine, QHSE and staffing solutions for the offshore wind industry. In this project SeaRenergy will provide highly qualified marine management personnel.
Atos will also set up a unified critical voice communication platform that will allow helicopters, ships, and operational teams working on the offshore farm to communicate seamlessly between them or with the coordination center, in and around the wind farm1. In a unpredictable environment, 16,3 km away from the shore, where the usual telecom networks do not work, the Atos solution is designed in such a way that communication between operators is guaranteed in all conditions, using satellite telephones as back up, and can be used to manage incidents and emergencies.
