Increasing focus on efficiency and emergency response has lead to a greater demand for real-time monitoring of environmental factors such as
waves, currents and tides. Tighter controls on pollution have placed higher demand on the quantity and quality of analyses of water and sediment, and many of these data can now be provided in real-time. Real-time marine measurements can be made available, securely, via the internet, GSM network or radio transmission. Ocean Scientific International Ltd (OSIL) has been involved in supplying a wide range of monitoring and measurement systems for coastal regions throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East.