SeeByte was founded in 2001 in Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) with the aim of bringing to market technologies designed at the world-class Ocean Systems Laboratory (OSL) of Heriot-Watt University. OSL has a reputation of global excellence and is consulted by the world's leading operators in the offshore, military and transportation sectors. Founding CEO David Lane had a vision to radically improve underwater operations by combining streams of sensor-derived data from remotely operated assets and create a single integrated picture to deliver greater information and awareness of an inaccessible underwater situation/location.

By constantly improving its product capability and listening closely to market demands,
SeeByte has grown its annual revenues by as much as 80% year on year, established an office in San Diego to cater to its US client base in 2008; and has been continually profitable. The company currently employs just over 30 people who make up SeeByte's highly experienced and expert delivery teams; but Lane is dreaming of bringing the company on to become one of Scotland's big boys.

Although still a relatively small company, SeeByte's Delivery Teams can be counted on to develop and maintain excellence. The company's SeeTrack Military product is being used by the US Navy as one of the core components of the common operator interface for navy (COIN) explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) system. It provides mission planning, monitoring and post-processing capabilities for sensors and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). It has been successfully deployed on numerous rapid environmental assessment surveys, military exercises and scientific experiments. Their AutoTracker product (for AUV pipeline inspection) holds a 22km world-record for continuous autonomous inspection of a subsea pipeline.

Despite the global credit crunch and likely recession, SeeByte is in good shape for the year ahead. The company has been isolated from the broader downturn, has no debt and continues to trade profitably by providing the right technology, people, culture, diversity and customer confidences to continue this trend over the coming period. For the future, SeeByte remains committed to total customer satisfaction through the development of products that solve key market problems. We expect continued growth through delivery of high-quality solutions and maintaining the highest possible standards of service with enthusiasm, teamwork and technical excellence.

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