Draft:Offshore Sensing

Offshore Sensing is a marine robotics company and the home of the Sailbuoy.

History
Offshore Sensing AS, was established in 2014 as a spin-off from the Christian Michelsen Research now NORCE. The technology was developed at NORCE in 2005.

Sailbuoy
The Sailbuoy is a long-endurance Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) for the oceans.

The patent pending design and technology of the Sailbuoy makes it able to stay at sea for months. Navigating the oceans autonomously and transmitting back data at regular intervals.

Sailbuoy can be used for various ocean applications, from measuring ocean and atmospheric parameters to tracking oil spills or acting as a communication relay station for subsea instrumentation.

Sailbuoy is an application-based USV designed to address different needs by integrating sensors.

2016 North Sea mission
Mission duration: 2 months

This mission was conducted by Offshore Sensing summer 2016. The mission objective of the SailBuoy was to investigate the Sailbuoys performance as a wave buoy in summer conditions. Weather conditions were light to severe. The biggest wave measured was 14.3 m with a significant wave-height of 8 m. After 2 months at sea, the SB Wave was directed home and returned to the deployment point.

2018 Transatlantic crossing
In 2018 the SailBuoy Met was the first-ever unmanned surface vehicle to complete an Atlantic crossing. After 80 days at sea, she has finally arrived at the finish line. Deployed in Newfoundland, she has travelled to Ireland sailing a total of 5100 km to cover the 3000 km stretch.

Having crossed the Atlantic the SailBuoy continued to Norway travellig for 118 days at sea and covered a total of 7800 km in all kinds of weather from Newfoundland to Norway via Ireland.

2020 Sailbuoy brings big data to Antarctic krill fishery
In 2020 Aker BioMarine launched Sailbuoy as part of its operations in Antarctica to take a further step in a new data-driven era of sustainable fishery and fishery management.