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2020 & Beyond: Tech Trends

NotiloPlus’ Seasam AUV has been operating around the world.

Photo: NotiloPlus

Photo: Birger Haraldseid

Lyon, has been shipping Seasam sys- Mohibb Malik, a Project engineer at

Birdview tems since March this year and 300 are Not all subsea operations have to Birdview, says the company has been now “out there”, from France to Korea, be done by subsea vehicles. Another using commercially available aerial working in the leisure market, eg. diver start-up, Birdview, is designing an aer- drones, but is now developing its own centres, as well as industrial, inspect- ial drone that can drop sensors into the modular system. “The drones available ing infrastructure, and science. Gambini water to gather data – or whatever you today are great for land based ? ight, but says it can carry other pay load or tools might want a subsea sensor to do. The not for offshore marine environments,” and can be adapted. The ? rm also has Oslo-based company has already been says Malik. “We’re making a design a partnership with TechnipFMC, which working with Norway’s Institute of Ma- that’s watertight and can ? oat (in case including working on things like indus- rine Research (IMR) in Bergen to pro- of a ditching).” Where ? ights it’s been trial production of the drone how pro- vide a remote sensor for offshore ? sher- doing currently are at about 15-20 min- vides a global offering. Looking into ies – i.e. a drone that is launched from a utes, the target for its own drone is three the future, Gambini says interconnected ? shing vessel and dips a sonar into the hours – within a 50km range in order to drones are likely where the industry will water to see if there are shoals of ? sh, maintain control/communication with it. go. which can then inform the vessel where While the company was founded in it should go. 2014, it’s only been really active for

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