Credit: Sonardyne
Uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) specialist HydroSurv Unmanned Survey has teamed up with marine technology specialist Sonardyne to develop and demonstrate what the companies say will be transformative seabed-to-shore sensing and data acquisition technologies for offshore operations.
The project is part-funded by Innovate UK. HydroSurv’s REAV-40 USV will be paired with intelligent seafloor and vessel-mounted instruments from Sonardyne.
These will then be used in combination with internet-based cloud- services to provide an end-to-end seabed-data-to-shore service initially targeted towards the offshore wind industry.
Key elements of the project include a self-transiting USV, acoustic positioning of and data harvesting from seabed instruments, a real-time gathering of geo-referenced current profile data, and live relay of information to operatives onshore through secure cloud-based systems.