The OceanHis SrL marine waters monitoring of the Italian Coast started in 2021 and was initiated to support the Blue Economy. The monitoring system is an IoT hardware-software integrated system called Blue Box (a real portable, small dimension, self-contained, autonomous laboratory) collecting, transmitting, visualizing in real time on web and mobile platforms multiparametric observations of the coastal sea environment.

Installed on board of different boats, the Blue Box is collecting temperature, salinity, chlorophyll, pH, redox, oxygen, phycoerythrin and turbidity data in ports and coastal waters.

The observations collected up to now for non-commercial uses are made available through SeaNoe, specifically: temperature, salinity, chlorophyll, pH, redox, oxygen, phycoerythrin in the port of Ancona (June 8, 2021), for monitoring pollution and marine conditions in an urban environment; Camogli (March 15, 2023) in the waters adjacent to the promontory of Portofino, just outside the protected marine area, an area of particular interest for biodiversity and conservation; Sanremo (May 22, 2023), important for studying the relationships between environmental conditions and cetacean presence; Gulf of Gaeta (August 6, 2023) analyzing environmental characteristics and water quality during marine water cleaning; Ligurian-Noth Tyrrhenian coastal area from the ports of Genova to the port of Livorno (July 2023). Data were collected at a nominal depth of 0.5 m while the vessels were moving.

OceanHis is adopting the ISO 9001 general framework for the Quality Management of Marine Environmental Data (QMED) and IODE-IOC best practices. Data are stored in ODV format. SeaDataNet vocabularies are used.