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Develogic Exhibts Turner Designs, PME

Sea? oor Lander Launch C-sense Logger

At the Ocean Business show in South- Turner Designs introduced a submers- ampton, U.K., develogic was sched- ible logger designed to work with its C- uled to show a 6,000m rated compact sense pCO2 sensor. Designed by water sea? oor lander with acoustic commu- quality instrument design corporation nication and sensor package, acoustic/ Precision Measurement Engineering, seismic recording systems, acoustic mo- Inc. (PME), the C-sense Logger package dems, a real-time satellite gateway buoy records time, date, internal temperature with inductive/acoust c communication, a sound source and a video camera.

The German company develops and manufactures turnkey customized data acquisition and telemetry solutions for marine monitoring for customers in- cluding research institutes, navies and offshore renewable energy/oil and gas companies.

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Image: Develogic

Image: Turner Designs

Xbox 360Xbox 360 Controller for J2 Subsea Valve Pack

J2 Subsea has launched an Xbox 360 wireless con- troller for a ? eld-proven intelligent valve pack (iVP).

Offered exclusively by J2, the Windows- based custom- built control software and gaming controller will im- prove operator training and ease maintenance activities on the iVP, the company said.

The software and controller were developed by J2 with Fathom Systems, which provides engineering solutions and products to the underwater engineering industry. According to J2, the software is the ? rst avail- able for this type of manipulator system. It supports the eight-station proportional iVP, which is based on standard valves and ful? ls all hydraulic control require- ments, including complex tooling skids, tracked vehi- cles and manipulator arms.

J2 and Fathom Systems worked together to develop the software and performed ? eld trials for a year with a large ROV operator to prove the product ahead of its launch. During the testing phase, the ROV operator ex- plained how easy the system was to use, how quickly the operators became familiar with the controls and highlighted how much was saved in repairs compared to the more expensive manipulator package.

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