IP Buoys: Mooring 4.0 smart buoys to protect marine ecosystems

Spain

5 min read

Mar 06, 2020

By Emanuela Ferraro

IP Buoys COO Jaume Viñola Pañella at IQS TechFest © CompassList

Save the Posidonia! That’s the call from enterprising sailors who, with their startup IP Buoys, have found a way to protect the seagrass and marine life from the damaging impact of nautical tourism

After years of sailing in the Mediterranean waters, Jaume Viñola Pañella and his friends decided it was time to create a greener form of nautical tourism. Decades of frequent and usually unregulated boat moorings have damaged seagrass meadows. As a result, the amount of photosynthesis has also dramatically dropped, hurting the primary source of food that supports billions of tons of life in the submarine ecosystem. IP Buoys was established in 2019 to build intelligent mooring systems for a more sustainable and efficient management of nautical activities.
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