Synetica have partnered with industrial IoT service provider Senzary to install their enLink Air-X – LoRaWAN Outdoor Air Quality Monitor into the Cocolil, Jose Miguel and Miraflores gates of the Panama Canal to help monitor emissions from passing shipping.
The installation of Synetica’s outdoor air quality monitors comes after the introduction of the Canal’s Green Ship Classification, announced in December 2021. The scheme will see lesser polluting vessels charged reduced tariffs for passing through the waterway in efforts to radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Panama Canal Authority aims to make the waterway carbon neutral by 2030 and the Green Ship Classification is a key component towards that goal. Aided by the monitoring system connected to a LoRaWAN gateway, Senzary will be gathering data about each ship and its position throughout the canal in real-time. This will allow them to calculate the dispersion of the emissions particular to each vessel as it transits the canal.
Synetica’s enLink Air-X LoRaWAN Air Quality Monitor is a precision instrument which accurately measures up to 12 key environmental parameters including temperature, humidity, VOCs, carbon dioxide, particulate matter (PM1.0, PM2.5 & PM10), oxygen, ozone, barometric pressure as well as up to 4 plug-in gas sensors. Real-time readings are transmitted to the cloud using LoRaWAN wireless, where the data can be visualised and analysed.
The Panama Canal is critical to the Panamanian economy, generating almost 6% of gross domestic product (GDP), as well as being a vital part of infrastructure to the international shipping industry. An estimated 14,000 cargo vessels pass through the Canal annually, which reduces transit between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by up to 8,000 nautical miles — in excess of 10 days of travel for many container ships.
Ricaurte Vásquez, the administrator of the Panama Canal commented in a press release issued by the Authority that the Green Ship Classification has been launched: “In recognition of the urgency of climate change and the need to accelerate industry and global climate action.” By monitoring the efficiency of a ship’s design, employment of efficiency-promoting measures such as bow thrusters, and the use of more sustainable fuel sources, including zero carbon biofuels and other carbon neutral fuels, the waterway hopes to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during transit through the Canal by between 20% and 100%. Synetica’s outdoor air quality monitoring system will help to ensure that vessel owners are encouraged to adopt greener practices for the future.
Synetica’s enLink Air-X – LoRaWAN Outdoor Air Quality Monitor have been installed into the Cocolil, Jose Miguel and Miraflores gates of the Panama Canal to help monitor emissions from passing shipping as part of the Canal’s Green Ship Classification scheme.
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