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Hydromea

Engineering https://www.hydromea.com/ www.ise.bc.ca

Hydromea’s LUMA wireless optical systems for high- bandwidth through-water data transfer are compact (size of a deck of cards), lightweight (50g), extremely power- ef? cient (consumption in mW) and affordable (all units are priced below $10’000 range). Better yet, LUMA is the only optical wireless system on the market certi? ed to be deployed down to 6,000m. In 2019, LUMAs were deployed at 4,200m depth in the South Paci? c Ocean to transfer real-time data from instruments placed on the ocean ? oor. Hydromea scaled manufacturing of its thrusters and as of January 2020, the thrusters are avail- able on its webshop with 48-hour delivery window.

ISE has consistently pushed what is possible for the last 45 years in the subsea and countless other industries. It has created robust and modular AUVs with many ? rsts (? rst to have AUVs successfully complete missions in both polar regions, for example). ISE is currently manu- facturing its ? rst autonomous AUV docking system which will allow the AUV to ? nd and dock with a capture mech- anism for data download, charging and recovery.

McLane Research Labs. Inc https://mclanelabs.com

McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1983 to manufacture and develop advanced time-series instrumentation for the oceanographic community.

McLane is a leader in time-series in-situ oceanographic pro? lers, samplers, and ? otation. The company pro- duces three main product lines: Pro? lers, Samplers, and Flotation. In 2019, McLane expanded its Pro? ler

NOVACAVI line with the Prawler which collects and transmits sen- https://www.novacavi.it/ sor data from the surface to 500m of the water column. NOVACAVI, specialist cable designer and manufac-

The instrument trav- turer, is technically supporting the increasing demand els the mooring wire of purpose-built cables for drones and robotic vehicles. using wave actuated

Speci? c applications include: aquatic exploration, envi- motion. The Prawler ronmental monitoring, hazardous environments inspec- is a ? eld-proven in- tion and maintenance, protection and surveillance ac- strument originally tivities, and search and rescue operations. All cables are developed by NO- entirely tailored to customer’s requirements with engi-

AA’s Paci? c Marine neering expertise, comprehensive knowledge of materi-

Environmental Lab als and a high degree of manufacturing. Key features in- with support from clude: high strength, optimized dimensions and weight,

NOAA’s Of? ce of extreme dynamic and torsion capability, excellent resis-

Oceanic and Atmo- tance to any external agents, weather-proof proven ma- spheric Research terials, and custom design and in-house manufacturing.

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