Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre for Marine Economy

Hong Kong Industrial Technology Centre for Marine Economy, is Hong Kong's first national-level science and technology innovation platform under the administration of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of China. Established through collaboration between Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) and the National Engineering Research Centre (NERC) of Advanced Technology and Equipment for Water Environment Pollution Monitoring, focusing on “Marine Eco-Environment Monitoring Technology and Smart Sensing”, as well as “Marine Equipment and Emerging Technologies”, with a strategic roadmap to expand into smart marine equipment, marine clean energy, green shipping, application validation, technology commercialisation, standards alignment, and international promotion.

Marine Eco-Environment Monitoring Technology and Smart Sensing

The Centre offer professional technical support for environmental monitoring of the local and regional marine industry and ecological conservation, as well as smart testing solutions, research areas includes:

Smart Fisheries and Communication Technologies
Artificial Intelligence Water Quality Early Warning
Marine Environmental Monitoring Technology
Development and Application of Smart Monitoring Equipment

Marine Equipment and Emerging Technologies

The Centre is dedicated to the research and development of innovative marine equipment and related emerging technologies, bringing together interdisciplinary research and engineering talent to continuously drive technological breakthroughs and contribute to the nation's marine development, research areas includes:

Marine New Energy Technologies
Ship Electrification and Modularization Technologies
Applications of automated ships and robots
Seawater Desalination Technology
Advanced Energy-Saving and Cooling Materials

Service Areas:

Marine Environmental Monitoring and Water Quality Testing

Regular and emergency marine environmental monitoring, including utilizing AI driven marine algae analyzer and rapid seawater fecal coliform detector
Utilising Hong Kong's first AI water quality analyzer to achieve rapid, low-cost, high-throughput, and highly reproducible multi-parameter detection
Customisable Monitoring Solution Design

R&D Consulting Services and Technology Industrialisation Support

Carbon Reduction, Energy-saving materials and Technologies
Marine New Energy Technology
Smart Monitoring Technology
Automated Ships and Robotic Applications
Standards alignment and certification support, assisting enterprises in aligning with national and international standards

Promoting Industry Exchange and Technological Advancement

Regularly organizing advanced technology study tours to key laboratories and marine engineering bases in mainland China, and advanced overseas institutions for exchange and learning
Regularly holding technology exhibitions and exchange meetings to showcase the latest R&D achievements and promote industry-academia-research collaboration
Regularly holding professional technical training sessions, including topics such as monitoring standards and marine new energy sources

The Automated AI Water Testing System

The Automated AI Water Testing System (Robotic Sample Distributor)

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