Patent ID: 8260476

Claim:
A supervisory control and data acquisition system for an offshore energy recovery system comprising: one or more mobile buoyant energy recovery systems; said one or more mobile buoyant energy recovery systems including sensors configured to track position of, velocity of, and amount of energy recovered by said one or more mobile buoyant energy recovery systems; a remote control central service facility, said remote control central service facility configured to govern navigation of said one or more mobile buoyant energy recovery systems during energy recovery, said remote control central service facility further configured to provide control of one or more mechanisms that govern navigation of said one or more mobile buoyant energy recovery systems during energy recovery; said remote control central service facility further including a microprocessor system configured to run a server software system; wherein said control of one or more mechanisms that govern navigation of said one or more mobile buoyant energy recovery systems during energy recovery includes a processor configured for supervisory control and data acquisition systems.