Fincantieri, through its subsidiary Fincantieri Infrastructure Opere Marittime, has signed a new agreement with the subsidiary WSense, a scale-up specialized in the development of technologies based on on underwater communication protocols and advanced environmental and structural monitoring, which is aimed at integration into projects of common interest considered strategic solutions, technical solutions and the most available in the industry today. The agreement provides for the adoption, in the main maritime and port works, of WSense technologies for the real-time and continuous collection of reliable data on different classes of parameters related to the bottom and the column of water: intensity and direction of currents, quality and water turbidity, biodiversity, noise subsea level, up to the stability of structural elements. The Two partners highlighted that these capabilities enable the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) and the implementation of monitoring and early warning, which are essential to increase the safety, predictability and control in activities such as dredging, breakwaters and defence works.

The partnership is also part of a shared path of promotion of environmental sustainability, through tools designed to monitor the impact of infrastructure on the surrounding ecosystems and to support, thanks to the analysis of the of sensitive parameters, increasingly responsible and aware.