In recent years there has been a clear trend of increasing activity in the arctic area, especially in terms of shipping, environmental and climate monitoring, and especially the exploration and mapping of potential oil and gas deposits. In the Arctic, however, there are major technological challenges to solutions that work reliably in extreme weather conditions such as extreme cold, snow, ice and salt water spray.

The CostalEye project is funded by The Norwegian Center of Expertise Instrumentation and seeks to find new and robust solutions for the arctic environment securing sensor life time expectancy and increasing environmental control in the northern areas.

The prototype of the camera has already been delivered to several of the Statoil’s facilities. In 2011 they started working with Trollhetta, a company working with image and video analysis. This enables the Seahawk camera  to become an intelligent and self-interpreting system using images sent from the seabed. It’s not just a camera but also a repository of digitized video clips. The camera is installed and connected to an existing cable that goes up to the offshore platform. Many cameras can be connected to the same cable by using a separate hub module. On the platform, the system is connected to a large video server that stores all your video and pictures from subsea equipment.

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WINDSENSE will develop an Add-on instrumentation system for off shore wind turbine.The idea is to bring to the market a cost-efficient add-on instrumentation system that is able to collect technical condition and lifetime related parameters from components in a wind turbine and then to analyse these data primarily for prediction of component degradation and estimation of remaining lifetime .

The project will be initiated January 2012.

Many leaks go undetected by conventional pressure-detection means, and subsea operators are facing tighter environmental regulations. Weatherford’s SeaHawk subsea video surveillance and oil-/gas-leak-detection system was developed through an operator’s request, and incorporates a high-quality video camera, advanced light-emitting-diode (LED) lighting and monitoring software.

WINDSENSE will develop an Add-on instrumentation system for off shore wind turbine.The idea is to bring to the market a cost-efficient add-on instrumentation system that is able to collect technical condition and lifetime related parameters from components in a wind turbine and then to analyse these data primarily for prediction of component degradation and estimation of remaining lifetime

Trondheim, Norway, September 16.th 2011. www.Trollhetta.com and the Trollhetta AS logo has been redesigned during the summer. The company is confident that the new logo will promote the vision and values of the company in an excellent way. Trollhetta would also like to congratulate TaskCamp AS with a design job well done.

Trondheim, Norway, September 16.th, 2011. Trollhetta AS launched today their new and improved web-site.

Many leakages go undetected by conventional pressure-detection means and also subsea operators are facing tighter environmental regulations. Weatherford’s SeaHawk subsea video surveillance and oil & gas-leak-detection system was developed through an operator’s request, and incorporates a high-quality video camera, advanced light-emitting-diode (LED) lighting and monitoring software.

Trollhetta AS will incorporate a state-off the art video analyses software using an AI approach to detection and action support.

The project starts in September 2011 and is planned to continue throughout 2012. The plan is to develop an instrumentation platforms for surveillance of hazardous waters like harbors and the narrow crossing points. Possible sensor types in such a platform can be weather / climate, AIS, radar, video (day/night) and flow measurement (for ocean). In addition, the instrumentation platform needs to support different types of communication, the types of communication will depend on what is available between the sensor and user, as well as the best suited communication platform for different locations.

Trondheim, Norway, November 8th, 2011 – Trollhetta joined today the Norwegian Center of Expertise Instrumentation (NCEI). NCEI is a cluster of high technology companies in the instrumentation area. It’s one of twelve clusters in the national NCE program and funded by Innovation Norway, SIVA and the Norwegian Research Council. The 14 core companies in Trøndelag operates within a range of sectors, from offshore, deep-sea instrumentation and aquaculture, transport, energy and health care services. Common to them all is that they provide advanced measurement, control and communications solutions to a global market. The cluster works closely with NTNU, SINTEF and HiST, and to contribute actively with industrial development in the region.