Liquid Robotics and Maritime Robotics to Fill Ocean Airline Tracking Gap
Liquid Robotics, USA, has entered into a business and technology partnership with Maritime Robotics, Norway. One of the first customers from this partnership is the flight-tracking service Flightradar24. Sea trials are currently underway to test ocean-based ADS-B reception with Wave Gliders. Wave Gliders have the potential to fill the current air traffic communications tracking gaps that exist over remote ocean expanses.
Joining Liquid Robotics’ Open Oceans Partner Program, Maritime Robotics is an authorised partner to sell Liquid Robotics’ Wave Gliders and associated mission and integration services to customers throughout the Nordic countries of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
The Maritime Robotics partnership brings expertise in creating and delivering high-value, sustainable maritime solutions for today’s applications of maritime security, fish tracking & monitoring and meteorology and oceanography. Additionally, this partnership will address the emerging commercial applications of wind farming, aquaculture and commercial flight tracking.
This partnership combines the companies’ unmanned systems technology expertise, partnerships and solid track records for safely conducting ocean missions in the harsh Nordic seas. Together, with the Wave Glider’s over 1.1M nautical miles at sea and environmentally safe operation, the two companies will work to create sustainable solutions for the Nordic countries’ commercial and maritime security customers.
With a decade of working with Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) systems and application development, Marine Robotics are seeing the USV market moving away from the technology push phase over to a more mature business, where users and USV industry join forces to create new opportunities, according to Vegard Evjen Hovstein, CEO of Maritime Robotics.
