Russia Builds AI-Powered Platform to Monitor Water Ecosystems — and Exports It to China
The new system collects real-time environmental data from oceans, lakes, and the atmosphere to predict pollution and weather risks.
At the Made in Russia innovation forum, scientists from Sevastopol State University unveiled a new digital platform and a range of domestic sensors designed for round-the-clock environmental monitoring of marine and freshwater ecosystems. The system, called “Urban EcoMonitor,” gathers 24/7 data from buoys and detectors, using embedded algorithms to predict environmental risks, pollution, and extreme weather events.
From the Black Sea to Shandong
The platform will be integrated this year into Sevastopol’s “Safe City” system under its Environmental Safety framework. Sevastopol State University has also signed an agreement with a Chinese partner to deploy the same technology in Shandong Province, marking a rare case of Russian environmental tech being adopted abroad.
Another key participant in the project is Marlin-Yug, part of the MoreAgroBioTech Research and Education Center, which manufactures drifter buoys for ocean monitoring. The company’s technology is already being used in six countries — France, Japan, the United States, India, the UK, and the Netherlands.
The initiative underscores Russia’s growing push to develop homegrown environmental technologies — not only to modernize domestic monitoring systems but also to compete in the global green tech market.
