SMD

SMD’s Artemis cable tracking system was used during a nearshore export cable reburial campaign at Eneco’s Luchterduinen offshore wind farm. The works were carried out in the intertidal zone using Jan De Nul’s modified trencher Sunfish, which reburied the live export cable to improve protection where burial depth had reduced due to morphological seabed changes. According to the project reporting, the Sunfish was equipped with two sets of cable tracker sensors from SMD’s Artemis tracking system, using the live tone of the energized cable to accurately locate the asset during reburial operations. This instrumentation supported real-time tracking and positioning of the cable during the jet-trenching campaign in a challenging nearshore environment that was not readily accessible to typical offshore trenching tools. A stated outcome of deploying the Artemis tracking technology was that the export cable could be located accurately without switching off the wind farm, enabling cable reburial operations to proceed while maintaining power export. The work was presented as a live-project application of Artemis following offshore trials, demonstrating the use of digital tracking and monitoring technology to reduce operational constraints and support safe execution of nearshore cable maintenance interventions at the Luchterduinen site.