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Thanks to these drones and other advanced monitoring solutions, Saipem can enable a deep digital transformation of the subsea world where collected data are used to monitor and manage infrastructures more effectively." – MAURO PIASERE,

CHIEF ROBOTICS AND INDUSTRIALIZED

SOLUTIONS, SAIPEM

Sensor technology is keeping pace with the needs of ing security challenges, for example, German company autonomous operation, with Teledyne fnding increased FLANQ has just launched a suite of commercial-off-the- demand for synthetic aperture sonar, high specifcation shelf USVs, drones and sensor payloads, powered by AI.

cameras and subsea LiDAR. Arnar Steingrimsson, Vice Crewed offshore support vessels are likely to see their

President of Sales - Marine Vehicles at Teledyne Marine, workload reduce with the increasing use of USVs. Lloyd’s is also seeing demand for deeper operations, and along Register recently granted Approval in Principle to Brazilian with longer stay times, this means bigger batteries and company TideWise for its 24-meter DP2 USV which has bigger vehicles. an endurance of 35 days and the ability to deploy a work-

Using AI, Teledyne has developed an autonomous sys- class ROV at depths of up to 2,500 meters. Like AUVs, the tem for identifying and tracking pipelines. “Grid surveys endurance of USVs in increasing. over an area don’t guarantee the best data over the object Saab UK's recently released Seaeye SR20 ROV is de- of interest,” says Steingrimsson. But while offshore energy signed with USVs or minimally crewed vessels in mind, companies are looking for operational gains, Steingrims- says Jon Robertson, Managing Director at Saab Seaeye. son is also seeing a greater interest in surveillance monitor- It is also compatible with the latest camera and percep- ing, sparked by recent sabotage events. tion technologies, which means it can deliver high-quality,

AUV residents are ideal. It’s not feasible to have ships high-resolution inspection data. “As the market shifts to- monitoring subsea infrastructure long-term, and the mar- ward greater automation, we're seeing more emphasis on ket is already responding. In response to Europe’s grow- automating both data acquisition and data processing to march/april 2025 OFFSHORE ENGINEER 47