SEASAM-Autonomous Inspection

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Sea water is a medium where data is particularly difficult to collect, merge and analyze. There are few data transmission possibilities, and with low visibility & accuracy difficulties. As of today, stakeholders of the blue economy rely on inaccurate, human-made inspections, or very expensive solutions designed at first for the Oil & Gas industry. Notilo Plus’ vision is to make underwater data more easily accessible & exploitable than ever before. This French start-up, founded in 2016, uses Artificial Intelligence to provide modular solutions adapted to the needs of every market segment, thus maximizing the value of all underwater data, and makes it easy to analyze and share with all stakeholders. The SEASAM-AI project will bring SEASAM to a viable industrial product composed of a modular and autonomous drone (AUV for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle) equipped with AI computing power, a data analysis platform and a professional mission control application. The aim is to reach TRL9 through taking over the performance of Notilo Plus’ leisure hardware platform and (i) integrate new AI capabilities and a data processing software platform and (ii) optimise it to address each market segment needs and demonstrate it. Through the SEASAM-AI project, reproductible underwater inspection will become widely available for players of the blue economy, even for remote or small size infrastructures. Notilo Plus targets the market of underwater infrastructure inspection, focusing on 3 market segments: • Ship hull inspection to reduce fouling, • Aquaculture nets inspection to prevent fish loss, • Offshore wind farms inspection, to enable frequent and automatized maintenance. Notilo Plus focuses at first on these market segments as they are more mature and technologically accessible within the next two years, before further developing its solution to reach new market segments.