Offshore Sensing AS
| Private company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Marine robotics |
| Founded 📆 | 2014 |
| Founder 👔 | David Peddie |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , Bergen , Norway |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Max Hartvigsen (CEO) David Peddie (CTO) |
| Products 📟 | Sailbuoy |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | sailbuoy |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Offshore Sensing AS is a Norwegian marine robotics company that manufactures the Sailbuoy, a wind-powered unmanned surface vessel. The company was spun off from Christian Michelsen Research (CMR, now part of NORCE Research) in 2014.[1]
Development and history
CMR began developing wind-powered surface vessels in 2005.[1] The technology built on CMR's experience producing buoys for open-ocean and ice-infested waters. David Peddie led the technical development, which focused on creating a vessel capable of operating in North Sea conditions for extended periods.[1] Offshore Sensing was established in 2014 when CMR spun off the commercial operations.[2] CMR retained majority ownership at that time.
Product
The Sailbuoy is 2 metres long, weighs 60 kilograms, and uses a rigid sail for propulsion. Solar panels provide power for electronics and navigation systems. The vessel communicates via Iridium satellite and can operate for several months without maintenance.[1] Various sensor configurations are available, including equipment for measuring ocean temperature, salinity, waves, and fish populations.[3]
Atlantic crossing
In 2018, a Sailbuoy designated SB Met sailed from Newfoundland to Ireland. The vessel was deployed by the Marine Institute of Newfoundland on 7 June and reached Ireland on 26 August, covering 3,000 kilometres in 80 days.[4] The vessel continued to Norway after reaching Ireland.[5] According to press reports at the time, this was the first Atlantic crossing completed by an unmanned sailing vessel.[4] An underwater glider had previously crossed the Atlantic in 2009.[4]
Wind farm study
In 2021, Akvaplan-niva used a Sailbuoy to collect acoustic data at Equinor's Hywind Scotland floating wind farm. The vessel sailed from Bergen to Scotland and spent four weeks collecting echosounder data to study fish populations around the turbines.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Peddie, David (9 July 2015). "Sailbuoy Takes Off". Marine Technology News. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ "Sailbuoy Company - Offshore Sensing AS Established". Ocean News & Technology. 17 February 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ Hole, Lars Robert (25 July 2022). "SailBuoy Ocean Currents: Low-Cost Upper-Layer Ocean Current Measurements". Sensors. 22 (15): 5553. Bibcode:2022Senso..22.5553W. doi:10.3390/s22155553. PMC 9370917 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 35898056 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Chan, Kelvin (4 September 2018). "Robot boat sails into history by finishing Atlantic crossing". Associated Press. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ Bottinelli, Stef (7 September 2018). "Sailbuoy Met, the first unmanned surface vehicle to cross the Atlantic". Yachting & Boating World. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
- ↑ "Equinor pilots autonomous glider survey to map fish presence and biomass quantity". Equinor. 7 April 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
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