Hello guys. We are a multi-disciplinary startup team of 6 students from universities from Milan, Hong Kong and China. Our team observed the need for more affordable underwater drones and parts among DIY individuals, ocean hobbyists, student robosub-teams, or even divers. Please help us fill in this survey so we could know better what kind of product we need to prioritize developing. Thank you for your time!
Our team could also use some feedback from all of you, so please don’t hesitate to leave your advice, whether it is related to technical process, market insight or your personal experiences of ROV or AUV.
I filled out your survey, but you might find this doc useful as well. The marine Technology Society put on a series of three webinars this fall and put out a few of these reports. I found them quite helpful to understand the ocean tech market for low cost sensors and platforms. There are two others but they are too big to post here.
Thanks @brad_smith -
I had seen that series, but found it quite challenging to extract anything of substance from amongst all the buzz-words! I had reviewed that doc, maybe the others have a bit more to say with specificity. Thanks for the reminder!
Yeah that’s fair, there’s definitely a lot of buzzwords in there.
It seems that the real cost isn’t the hardware, it’s everything around it like deployment, monitoring it in the field, and dealing with the data after. Also that simpler, more scalable setups are becoming more popular over expensive custom one off deployments. look at ARGO floats vs glider deployments for example.
I found the webinars a lot easer to understand than the PDFs.