ACUA Ocean USV Named Winner in Fast Company’s 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards
ACUA Ocean is proud to announce that it has been named a winner of Fast Company’s 2025 World Changing Ideas Awards. This annual recognition honors bold and transformative efforts that tackle the world’s most pressing issues—from sustainability initiatives, robotics and automation and AI developments to pursuits of social equity.USV PIONEER is a testament to British engineering, transforming full ocean monitoring and protection. Developed by ACUA as part of the UK Department for Transport’s Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, PIONEER delivers enhanced operational capabilitie
Silicon Sensing, Kongsberg Discovery Join Forces to Develop Gyro Technology
gyro technology that will disrupt existing solutions. A formal agreement between Silicon Sensing Systems Ltd and Kongsberg Discovery AS was signed Monday, June 2, during EXPO in Osaka, Japan. The purpose is to bring the companies together to co-develop next-generation inertial technology.Gyro sensors measure changes in rotation angle over time, enabling detection of direction, angle, and vibration. They are used in smartphones, game consoles, car navigation systems, industrial equipment, and devices requiring vibration detection, camera shake correction, and attitude control.This agreement will
Ocean Business '25: 4H-JENA Engineering Sensors
4H-JENA Engineering, a leader in high-precision seawater sensor and measuring systems, is set to showcase its range of CONTROS brand sensors and FerryBox systems at Ocean Business 2025 in Southampton, UK, April 8-10. With a strong emphasis on environmental monitoring, the company will highlight how its technology supports marine research, climate change studies, and commercial oceanographic applications.Among the innovations in focus will be the CONTROS CombiSensor CO2 / CH4, which integrates carbon dioxide and methane gas measurements into a single compact unit. Designed for deployment on
BLOG: Properly Siting Your Weather Station
Siting: How to Choose the Best Location for Your Weather Station is a new blog from the weather instrumentation experts at RM Young focused on properly citing to achieve best results.Ever wondered why your precipitation readings seem off? It might not be your sensors—it’s all about location. Installing a weather station is an exciting way to monitor local conditions and gain valuable insights into your environment. However, the accuracy of your data depends heavily on the placement of your sensors. In this blog, we’ll explore how to choose the ideal location for your weather
NOC Moves Forward with Funding for Subsea Sensor Tech
environment is critical for understanding a wide range of issues that can have local but also global impacts," said Dr Andrew Morris, project lead. “Marine autonomy is a way to monitor more locations for longer than has previously been possible. As the platform technology advances so must the sensors available to them to make best use of new capabilities to deliver more data.”The funding, totalling £390,000, from the Natural Environment Research Council’s Future Marine Research Infrastructure (FMRI) programme, will cover sensor development, platform integration and testing
Kraken Joins Forces with US Navy for SAS Sensor Research
of Kraken. Entering into this new cooperative agreement with NUWC will ensure our science and technology is being evaluated by the best and brightest inside the U.S. Navy, and this allows us to deepen our collaboration on the next generation of seabed intelligence solutions.“With several our sensors now in active use within the U.S. Navy, we are excited to deepen our focus into data enhanced processing techniques that will benefit both new and existing sensors, leveraging the latest developments in machine learning,” added David Shea, Kraken Robotics’ CTO
MSDS Marine Becomes Reseller for Sonardyne's Marine Technology
Marine technology company Sonardyne is expanding its reach by appointing MSDS Marine as its latest UK reseller.MSDS Marine are a specialist marine and coastal contractor specialising in providing scientific and archaeological support across a variety of sectors including; offshore development, archaeological and ecological surveys, and asset monitoring and recording. Its work includes the use of Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), divers, and geophysical and hydrographic survey and they offer a complete package from planning to execution, and subsequent processing, visualization, and interpretation.
New Sensors Expected to Reduce Illegal Immigration Across English Channel
in addition to the surveillance provided by patrols, drones and planes already used to monitor the 150 kilometers of coastline along the Nord and Pas-de-Calais region.Equipped with the CYCLOPE software, SPYNEL panoramic surveillance cameras monitor day and night over a 10-kilometer radius. The infrared sensors instantly alert police command centers if migrants are detected taking boat to sea."Image processing and artificial intelligence algorithms have been developed on the CYCLOPE software to trigger an alarm only in case of detection of groups of people near the water, to avoid false alarms and
Kraken's Robotics as a Service (RaaS) Contract with Royal Canadian Navy Deemed 'Success'
Canadian marine robotics company Kraken Robotics Inc. has successfully completed a Robotics as a Service (RaaS) contract with the Royal Canadian Navy, for the testing of Kraken’s ultra-high-resolution survey equipment. This $0.5 million contract was funded under the government of Canada’s Innovative Solutions Canada program, and the testing department for this service offering was the Royal Canadian Navy's Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic (FDU-A) based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Royal Canadian Navy has a mandate to develop and maintain an advanced sonar imaging and data storage
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