Potomac River Home to Solar-Powered Buoy, New Tool for Pentagon
CEO of Intellicheck Mobilisa company behind buoy is based in Alexandria.
Drivers on U.S. 301 crossing the Gov. Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge in Maryland might have noticed a yellow buoy, bobbing in the Potomac River. Since October, the new solar-powered buoy has been sending signals to Intellicheck Mobilisa, a developer of identity and wireless security systems. Vital information about the river is then passed on to federal agencies including the Department of the Navy and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), among others. The buoy is one of only eight of its kind currently in use. The other seven are stationed on the Puget Sound. They collect environmental and security data and use the company’s Wireless Over Water (WOW) technology to transmit the data to the shore Network Operations …
