The RAMONES project (Radioactivity Monitoring in OceaN EcosystemS) is an EU-funded initiative aimed at advancing deep-ocean environmental intelligence by developing cutting-edge, autonomous systems for continuous radioactivity monitoring in marine environments.

Utilizing state-of-the-art sensory materials, low-power robotics, and AI, the project seeks to improve real-time, high-resolution monitoring of natural and artificial radioactivity across oceans, addressing a crucial data gap for environmental sustainability and resilience.

Coordinated by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, RAMONES collaborates with international research institutions to pioneer new standards for marine environmental monitoring and support policy development in ecological protection and disaster preparedness.

PLOATECH contributes in the develop of innovative low power and pressure tolerant systems for allowing underwater radioactivity measurements, as well as it will develop the benthic laboratory. It aims to integrate these systems into specialized payloads for glider-type robotic vehicles, encompassing both hardware and software components. Instruments field validation and pilot demonstrators is a section of RAMONES leaded by PLOA.