NewsGroup had performed the research and is a dramatic developmental improve- Seatronics found that by working with design developmental testing in the U.S. ment with this inspection class ROV new materials for its rotary seal, and by market for the initial Predator I ROV system offering superb mid-water sta- using specialized manufacturing tech-system. GEG is the distributor for the tion-keeping, current and wave-busting niques, it was able to achieve an almost Predator II ROV system on the U.S. East and object tracking capabilities. maintenance-free thruster design with Coast & Midwest regions. Improvements to Predator II were a the bonus of a 30% increase in thrust.According to guests, the Predator II pervasive theme of the demo, as Seat- Sensor components used on the Preda-ROV system was visually stunning and ronics set out to show how its invest- tor system include;impressed all with the new topside ar- ment in the system could pay off for • SeeByte - CoPilot software systemrangement, a particularly important note clients. In particular, since the system • Bowtech Ltd – Mini Colour cameraas Morris had ? rst-hand experience with was acquired in late 2012, the Seatron- • Teledyne RDI – Explorer DVLthe Predator 1 system. Important, too, ics team set out to implement enhance- • Teledyne Blueview P900 or M900 was that the screen was bright and the ments to the ROV Propulsion system. 2D Sonargeneral consensus was that it resembled Seatronics engineers have totally rede-HD quality. The thruster enhancements signed the thrusters making them more www.seatronics-group.comalong with the SeeByte CoPilot system powerful and very reliable. www.predator-rov.comImenco & Subsea High Resolution Digital Imagingigital transmission is something most of us use - knowingly or Dotherwise - everyday, whether it be smart phones, tablets or via other electronic devices. The subsea industry is the exception with its reliance on ana-logue (SD or Standard De? nition) cam-eras in the belief that analogue systems have suf? ciently low latency. Latency is the time it takes for the sig-nal to travel from the subsea camera to the operators screen, via the ROV um-bilical (wire). For the signal to make this journey, it needs to be converted to an analogue signal in the camera before travelling up the umbilical. Delays can be unacceptable when controlling ma- ules diminishing rapidly. Imenco rec- TCP/IP Standard. nipulators on an ROV. ognized this trend in 2012 and, having With the PC inside the camera rather Imenco said it is about to challenge identi? ed the enormous performance than on the surface customers will be the established standards with the in- improvements that could be accrued able to tailor how they use the subsea troduction of an all-digital system that through an all-digital system, have de- system to meet their own speci? c de-will have considerable rami? cations in veloped a new hardware and software mands using Apps supplied by Imenco the way the subsea industry carries out data acquisition platform that will be or written speci? cally for their need.inspection tasks. launched later this year. The solution, Imenco has designed and written the The electronics industry worldwide is and all of Imenco’s future systems, will software providing greater control over seeing the availability of analogue mod- be run with Ethernet using the latest the image, lower latency and the ability April 201410 MTRMTR #3 (1-17).indd 10 MTR #3 (1-17).indd 10 4/9/2014 12:28:28 PM4/9/2014 12:28:28 PM