Research, Development & Innovation

Nke instrumentation is constantly pioneering new technologies.

Indeed, new, state-of-the-art equipment are required to satisfay the new standards in place, emerging environmental requirements, ever more rigourous quality systems and increasingly accurate traceability.

The company invests massively in research and development and is therefore highly involved in projects certified either by the Sea centre for competitiveness, the ANRT or Europe.

Consequently, nke takes part in projects such as:

• BLIDAR

  LIDAR measurement systems dedicated to measuring wind are already operating on the mainland. The project aims to BLIDAR design and build a floating wind measurements at sea, based on this technology LIDAR.

• SIMEO

  Meet in a single device sensors that collect information on the lives of marine vertebrates, they steal or they swim, this is the objective of the project SIMEO.

• NAOS

  Observations of the global ocean for the study and forecasting of ocean and climatewith the preparation of the new decade Argo.
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• MUSECORR

  (European project aimed at protecting the cultural heritage through corrosion control) nke instrumentation is responsible for the development of new products for corrosion control.
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• NOSS

  (Sea centre of Brittany, nke optical salinity sensor) nke instrumentation, in collaboration with the ENST, IFREMER and SHOM, develops and produces a new optical sensor that measures salinity based on the principle of the measurement of optical density.
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• GIRAC

  (Sea centre of Brittany, integrated management of coastal sanitation discharges) nke instrumentation has developed and manufactured a number of instrumented buoys deployed in the basins of Brest, St Malo, Antibes and Toulon.
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• PREVICOT

  (Sea centre of Brittany, coastal forecasts) nke instrumentation has developed a weather/ocean instrumented buoy.
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• SIAD

  (Sea centre of Brittany, information and decision-making aid system), nke instrumentation produces the RECOPESCA system that measures the fishing effort, one of the 3 themes of the project.
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• Proliphyc

  (ANR, phytoplankton proliferation monitoring system) nke instrumentation has produced 2 instrumented profiling buoys.
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• Damocles

  (European project, developping arctic modelling and observing capabilities for long term environment studies) Associated with the DAMOCLES project, the nke team has designed, developed and produced some of the components of the system for the measurement of Arctic ice thickness in partnership with the LOCEAN. This system consists in ULS Langrangian subsurface profilers fitted with high accuracy vertical depth-finders (ASL), satellite and acoustic communication systems and acoustic positioning devices (RAFOS SOFAR SEASCAN), together with surface buoys fitted with acoustic communication vectors.
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As part of its continuous development, nke considers all offers of cooperation and calls for projects.