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WiSub’s

Universal AUV Connector

By Claudio Paschoa CEO Mark Bokenfohr with WiSub products.

AUVs are increasingly used in the data transfer, due to the signi? cant chal- nect and disconnect without increasing

O&G industry, especially for subsea lenges posed with using conventional the risk of connection failure or de- ? eld monitoring. One of the limiting connectors for this type of connection. graded performance, a potentially game factors in its use has been the need to WiSub combines the latest methods in changing subsea technology.

recover it to the surface after relatively resonant power transfer with a revo- WiSub CEO Mark Bokenfohr’s early short periods of time. WiSub believes lutionary application of very high fre- career was based in the development, it has a de? nitive solution to this prob- quencies underwater to transmit data delivery and offshore operation of work- lem. AUV systems have always been a and power over short gaps of seawater, class ROVs and related systems, where target application for pin-less power and reliably maintaining the ability to con- the limitations of underwater connectors

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