Un’Italiana, the first woman, joined the Board of the European Innovation Council (EIC): the body that supports cutting-edge innovation, technology transfer at European level, and develops and enhances innovative technologies of revolutionary significance. She is the CEO of Italian deep tech company WSense Chiara Petrioli. And her company is an international excellence in the frontier ofInternet of Underwater Things (IoUT), the underwater internet, for underwater monitoring and communication systems.
Considering that over two thirds of our planet is “blue”, and 80% of the oceans are still unexplored, largely unknown and in need of protection, there blue economy it is a booming sector.
Pioneer of the Internet of Oceans, Chiara Petrioli is on the European Innovation Council
Computer engineer and researcher, former vice-rector of the “Sapienza” University of Rome with responsibility for business incubation and among the “top 2% world scientists” of Stanford University, Chiara Petrioli is at the helm of the deep-tech company that the World Economic Forum he identified how most innovative company in the world in the collection and management of Big Data with the aim of protecting the ocean environment.
WSense and the Internet of Oceans, why the blue economy is so important
Born in 2017 as a spinoff of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, WSense specializes in wireless underwater monitoring and communication solutions. It makes technologies available to institutions, research bodies and companies to communicate with robots operating in water.
The underwater wireless communications occur in real time, are safe and economical, for underwater data collection on an unprecedented scale. A true revolution in the study and understanding of the oceans and the planet.
The installed systems operate up to 3,000 meters deep but they do not impact the seabed. And they allow you to monitor marine and oceanic environments from the point of view of water quality, sounds, currents, movement of structures and anchors. They provide information both to research institutes and to those working in all sectors operating in the so-called Blue Economy (from environmental quality to aquaculture, to critical infrastructures, including energy and extraction platforms).
Based on patented technologies, these systems they use acoustic waves (similar to those used by dolphins, but without interfering with them) and wireless optical technologies.
Underwater wireless communication is an estimated global market 3.5 billion dollars and for which an annual increase of is expected 22% until 2027.
What does the EIC Board do?
The EIC Board has a central role in guiding the strategy and implementation of all activities of theEuropean Innovation Council, Europe’s most important innovation programme, with a budget of over 10 billion euros. It includes leading researchers, entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders and innovation experts from 17 different nationalities, selected based on innovation expertise criteria. They act in a personal capacity and are appointed for a two-year term, extendable twice. The mandate of new and renewed members is two years, until December 2025.
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