​Remote Monitoring of Sea Mammals and Protected Species

The ever-increasing noise footprint in the world's oceans is a growing concern for the delicate balance of subsea habitat. This has raised awareness on the need for maritime shipping, fishing, transportation as well as new infrastructure construction to be undertaken with minimal perturbation on the undersea world. To this end, it is paramount that the presence of protected species is detected in an automated fashion using localized, low-power  systems and thus all maritime activities can be planned accordingly to mitigate potential risks on sea mammals.
ROAM, thanks to its reliable connectivity and localized sound footprint, is a great candidate to facilitate the detection of sea mammals and communication of acquired information.

Automatized Inspection of Subsea Pipelines and Infrastructure

Inspection of subsea oil&gas pipelines and infrastructure is labor-intensive and costly task. In addition to the cost, manual inspection process requires a vessel be present in situ with a large crew. Given the worldwide downturn in oil prices, offshore pipeline companies are under increased pressure to reduce costs without compromising safety. Remote and automatized inspection of such infrastructure using our technology will cut the costs substantially, and provide an uninterrupted monitoring without requiring human presence at the sites, and will allow any potential faults to be observed and mitigated as soon as they arise.

​Underwater Internet of Things: Civilian and Military Use Cases

Due to its efficient utilization of limited bandwidth, ROAM is perfectly suited to connect underwater drones (a.k.a., Autonomous Underwater Vehicles - AUVs) with other drones or static sensor notes or support vessels, facilitating a true underwater internet of things.
Such networks will become a reality soon for both civilian use and military missions.

​Remote Monitoring of Offshore Aquaculture Farms

Open-ocean aquaculture  is an emerging approach to mariculture or marine farming where fish farms are moved some distance offshore where the farms are positioned in deeper and less sheltered waters.
This requires the catch and the infrastructure in an offshore aquaculture farm to be remotely monitored in real time, as manual inspection would be infeasible due to safety risks and financial costs.
ROAM will alleviate this pain by transmitting images and sensor data from the aquaculture farm to an onshore site on the
health of catch and the infrastructure..