Online Oceans

What an autonomous surface vehicle is, and what to look for in a long-endurance, solar-powered, low-cost USV for persistent ocean data collection. Months on station, one-person launch, from £40,000.

Online Oceans provides ocean data-as-a-service through Scout USVs, delivering processed data to user dashboards or APIs without hardware or crew costs.

How ocean data is collected: research vessels, moored buoys, gliders and autonomous surface vehicles. Compare the methods, and collect persistent data for months from £40,000.

Scout USVs support metocean, weather, wave, wind, acoustic, AIS, and camera sensors, plus custom payloads with 24V power and Ethernet.

Scout USV case studies: USBL tracking and re-tasking of UUVs with Sonardyne Micro-Ranger 2, a Scout swarm tracking AUVs for ASW at NATO REPMUS, a 40-day offshore metocean mission with Sofar Ocean sensors, and real-time marine mammal PAM with Hydrotwin AI.

Open roles at Online Oceans, an ocean robotics company in Christchurch, Dorset. Software Engineer (Robotics) and Integration Engineer.

Our first forward-deployed engineer. Fit new sensors to Scout for customers, work with the field engineering team and travel often.

Own SentryOS, the Linux software that runs every Scout, and build the tests that decide when a boat is ready for sea.

Ocean data costs vary hugely by method: a research vessel charter runs £25,000-£50,000 per day and a moored buoy £100k-£1M+ installed. An autonomous USV collects data for months from £40,000, or fully managed as data-as-a-service.

A moored metocean buoy can cost hundreds of thousands to millions once installed and maintained, and cannot be moved. A relocatable autonomous USV monitors the same conditions from £40,000, or fully managed as data-as-a-service.

Chartering a research vessel costs tens of thousands of pounds per day. An autonomous USV collects equivalent data for months from £40,000, deployed by one person from shore. Compare the cost.

Case study: Scout USV carried Sofar Ocean metocean sensors for 40 days of continuous wave, wind and sea-state data offshore. No vessel on site, no crew, no mooring, at a fraction of survey vessel cost.

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Persistent ocean sensing at a fraction of the cost. Scout autonomous surface vehicles collect data for months, not days. From £40k - deploy swarms of low-cost ocean robots.

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