OCEANIT

About Oceanit

Oceanit is one of Hawaii`s largest and most diversified science and engineering companies. Oceanit is striving to bring innovative and affordable desalination processes to Hawaii, the Pacific, and the rest of our world in order to provide secure sources of life`s most precious substance - pure, clean water. Oceanit has designed Hawaii`s first and only large scale desalination plant for the Honolulu Board of Water Supply.

Oceanit`s history begins here - starting with the ocean, and growing to include other disciplines.  The complexity of the ocean and its multidisciplinary nature has been, and continues to be a great teacher. Today, innovative thinking, specifically combining multiple disciplines to understand and solve the most difficult customer challenges, is a growing trademark of the Oceanit team.

You`ll find that Oceanit has added capabilities like aerospace, electrical, and optical engineering, including physicists and laser scientists. Though, Oceanit continues to evolve to deliver ``value through innovation`` (our motto), the love of the ocean and the environment remains close to the heart of everyone at Oceanit.

• Environmental Engineering 
• Coastal & Ocean Engineering 
• Civil Engineering

OCEANIT PRODUCTS

Construction Dust Monitoring

Using EPA certified monitors, Oceanit has developed a construction dust monitoring system that alerts crews via a cell phone call about dust outbreaks that cause health hazards and complaints from adjacent neighborhoods.

Catalyst: Over the last several years, a steady stream of lawsuits in Hawaii has created an increasing awareness of construction-generated dust and the resultant consequences.  Fugitive dust is construction-generated dust that causes a health hazard or nuisance to adjacent occupants or homeowners.

High Accuracy Network Determination System

Track it.  HANDS or High Accuracy Network Determination System is a global network of low-cost optical ground stations for space object characterization and tracking.

Catalyst: The surveillance and control of outer space is growing in commercial and military importance.

Life Before: Current systems provide mostly range or distance (Z) information about an object in space.

Life After: HANDS will provide angular information or X and Y coordinates and fuse the information with the Z coordinate of objects in space.  Typical uses for the new system will be to track and catalog satellites, and provide more precise orbital information for the Air Force.

LIDAR & 3D-Ceilometer Systems

Measure it.   Safe Sky Technologies is a spin-off of Oceanit. Oceanit developed this leading-edge technology for the SST3D and the SST40 Ceilometers to respond to the needs of the aviation and weather service industry.

Safe Sky Technologies is focused on these market segments and has built core capabilities through internal R&D, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions.

Where's the Innovative Thinking? Safe Sky Technologies (SST) designs and develops next generation ceilometers and ceilometer systems with 3D-scanning capabilities. Unlike conventional fixed-mount systems, 3D-scanning allows SST products to provide 360 degree information gathering and measurements from a single operating unit. SST products are specifically designed for aviation weather safety and observations systems.

Cigua-Check Fish Poison Test Kit

Detect it.   Cigua-Checkâ is the world's only disposable rapid test kit for the detection of ciguatera toxin in reef fish. Ciguatera Fish Poison or CFP is the most common fish intoxication problem in the world.

Other Oceanit Products

Fluid Level Alarm Gauge (FLAG)  
On-Demand Fluid Sampling & Reporting 

Steam Sampling and Sewer Overflow Prevention Systems

Environmental Engineering

How would you design a stream sampling system that can take remote water samples on-demand? The problem: when it rains, pollutants from golf courses, residential, and surrounding areas are released into streams that also pollute our oceans. But at what points along a stream are the pollutants entering?  Previously, water sampling consisted of waiting for a rain event, then racing to a nearby stream to collect water samples by hand. 
 
Oceanit`s Environmental Engineering team joined forces with Oceanit`s Information Technology team to combine off-the-shelf pager technology and custom fabricated water capture devices into a single integrated system.

The result is multiple points along a stream can be remotely sampled with just a phone call.

Oceanit offers a growing list of environmental engineering services for the Water Industry.

Water Quality Solutions

• TMDL Preparation
• Surface Water and Ground Water Monitoring
• Ecosystem Restoration
• Wetland Design

PRODUCTS: Fluid Level Alarm Gauge (FLAG) 

Prevent it. FLAG or Fluid Level Alarm Gauge is a low-cost, wireless, sewer overflow prevention system developed by Oceanit. The FLAG system consists of wireless battery-powered field sensors, and a web-based alert and reporting components.

Each FLAG sensor is powered by rechargeable batteries, utilizes Verizon`s national cellular network, and is built from commercial off-the-shelf components for fast easy setup and maintenance.

Designed and built for harsh sewer environments, a network of FLAG sensors can detect impending sewer overflow conditions and transmit real-time information via the Verizon cellular network to the FLAG centralized system. The impending sewer overflow is immediately logged and mapped via a secure customer website. An automated series of phone calls and email alerts are then sent to field service crews and managers. To confirm that an alert was received, the keypad on a phone must be pressed or a reply email must be sent. Acknowledgements are logged for future reference.

Coastal & Ocean Engineering

How would you design a remote monitoring system that can track sewer outfalls in the ocean, and illegal sewer dumpings by cruise ships?  The problem: Existing water monitoring practices include waiting for sewage to wash ashore onto beaches.

Oceanit`s Coastal Engineering team joined forces with Oceanit`s Science & Technology team to combine satellite imagery, Russian image processing technology, and water sampling monitors into a single integrated system.

The result is sewer outfall surveillance from the sky, which can provide advance warning for local authorities who can take steps to protect public health and the environment.

Oceanit offers a growing list of Coastal and Ocean engineering services.

Harbors and Marinas
Waterfront Structure Design
Hydrographic Surveys
Dredging Design
Inspection Services

Coastal Zone Management
Shoreline Protection Design
Beach Erosion Solutions
Dune Certifications

Ocean Monitoring
Ocean Current and Wave Analyses
Nearshore Water Quality Monitoring
Outfall and Plume Monitoring
Marine Biology Surveys

Ocean Resources
Deep Ocean Water Applications
Alternative Energy Solutions

Permitting and Planning
Army Corps Permits
Shoreline Protection Area Permits

Product: On-Demand Fluid Sampling & Reporting       

Sample it. Using digital paging technology, Oceanit has developed a fluid sampling system that takes samples on-demand by simply placing a phone call.

Application: Stream sampling for TMDL studies. When it begins to rain in a target area, phone calls are made to strategically placed units along a stream to take water samples. Each sample is then collected from the stream and taken to a lab for analysis.

Civil Engineering

Wireless SCADA: How would you design a desalination facility that operates effectively with half the number of people?  The problem: wireless SCADA would be perfect, but it didn`t exist at the time.

Oceanit`s Civil Engineering team joined forces with Oceanit`s Information Technology team to design, integrate, and deploy a wireless SCADA system that utilizes wireless PDAs, a web-based monitoring interface, and an existing SCADA system into a single integrated system for the Honolulu Board of Water Supply`s desalination pilot plan.

The result is a future 20 acre desalination facility that can be wirelessly controlled and monitored from the palm of your hand.

Oceanit offers a growing list of civil engineering services.

Civil Works
Drainage and Flood Control Systems
Roads, Parking, and Pavement Design
Sitework

Drinking Water
Water Resource Management
Desalination Systems Design
Treatment, Storage, and Transmission Design

Wastewater
Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal Systems Design
Collection System Design and Rehabilitation
Flow Monitoring

Permitting and Planning
NEPA Environmental Review
Master Plans
Facility Plans

Kalaeloa Desalination Facility

Example Projects

Kalaeloa Desalination Facility

Oceanit designed the pilot facility and the full-scale facility for the Board of Water Supply, as described below. The desalination facility will occupy a portion of a 20-acre parcel. The land is undeveloped and was previously part of the Barbers Point Naval Air Station. Exploratory wells have been installed on the property, as described in the Honolulu Desalination Study Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact, April 2001. The proposed desalination facility will include administration and control buildings, a chemical storage building, source water wells, pretreatment facilities, reverse osmosis facilities, a transmission main, brine pond, and reject water disposal facilities. Source water for desalination will be provided through a network of basal aquifer wells. Pretreatment may consist of chemical addition, flocculation reactors, and membrane filtration. After pretreatment, the water will then undergo reverse osmosis desalination. Product water from reverse osmosis will be conditioned before finally being pumped into the BWS distribution system. Approximately 12 million gallons per day (MGD) of source water will be pumped from the source water well network to produce 5 MGD of potable water. Reject water from pretreatment and reverse osmosis operations will be disposed of through injection wells. FLAG - Oceanit works with the City & County of Honolulu to manage sewer overflows from manholes in the system with the Fluid Level Alarm Gauge (FLAG). FLAG is a portable, easily installed unit that will send out an alarm through cellular phone, pager, or email to the pertinent people so prevention measures can be taken. I&I - Oceanit also monitors and tracks the sewer overflows for the City & County of Honolulu.