$Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT.US)$ Philipp Stratmann: If y...
$Ocean Power Technologies (OPTT.US)$ Philipp Stratmann: If you look at OPT, we bring to the table a couple of fundamental underlying technologies that we utilize to provide data collection, data harvesting, data transmission systems that people are requiring. That could be our buoys, such as the ones that, will be included in the fulfillment of the contract for the United States Coast Guard, could be our vehicles, the WAMVs, which are unmanned surface vehicles. And then from those, we deploy whatever payload somebody needs. Do you need to listen to something underwater? We’ll put listening devices below the buoys. Do you need to scan a shipping channel for debris? We put a sonar under our vehicle. You need to go and monitor an area to make sure nobody comes across a stretch of water that they’re not meant to come across, well, we put camera, radar, electronic signature detection, and so on, on top of one of our buoys or on our vehicles. And then the systems that we have enable us to do the data communication link. We’ve got one of our buoys currently installed for the Naval Postgraduate school with an AT &T 5G mast on it in Monterey Bay. So that way around, you could have a vehicle that collects data, it uploads the data to the buoy, and the buoy then does some of the pre-processing and transmits that information back to shore where you can take other decisions. And what differentiates is that we have the permanent fixed asset that recharges itself, which is the buoy, and then you have the roaming asset, which is the vehicle. And then we’re currently working on the final commercialization of the docking and charging of our vehicles to the buoy when deployed over the horizon. So, you really end up with a fully forward deployed, persistently and resident recharging system that does ocean data collection. I think that’s a pretty unique proposition in the current market.
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