FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Schmidt Ocean Institute Selects Greensea to Help Build Full Ocean
Depth Robotic Research Vehicle
Greensea to integrate intelligent automation and navigation solution for SOI's Hybrid
Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV)
RICHMOND, Vermont — 18 March 2015 — Greensea Systems, Inc., a world leader in automation and navigation for
unmanned underwater vehicles, announces its selection by Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI), a non-profit foundation
advancing the frontiers of ocean research and exploration, to join the team developing SOI's new robotic undersea research
vehicle. Schmidt Ocean Institute will produce a series of three vehicles with advancing depth and research capabilities to
comprise the Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV). Greensea was selected to support SOI’s HROV program.
David Wotherspoon, the HROV Program Project Manager for SOI is thrilled about the new addition to its development
team. “Greensea has professional software engineers that have a track record of delivery and is emerging as a go-to
company for AUV, HROV and ROV control system software. After internal and external reviews, Schmidt Ocean Institute
decided to use Greensea Systems as they approach their task from an operator's perspective, which makes integration and
functionality the project driver. We are very excited to be working with them.”
Schmidt Ocean Institute has already begun work designing the full ocean depth undersea robotic research vehicle and will
operate at depths of 11,000 meters. It will be one of the world's only robotic vehicle capable of providing scientists realtime access to the deepest parts of the ocean. In 2014, SOI deployed its 82.9-meter ship RV Falkor twice to the Mariana
Trench's, which is the deepest part of the world's oceans. The HROV will be the next-generation vehicle to help researchers
gather data from those unexplored depths.
With a background that includes diver, ROV operator and physicist, Greensea President and CEO, Ben Kinnaman,
understands what it takes to create an ROV that will deliver the precise, accurate, repeatable data the scientific community
needs. “Greensea's technology is specifically designed to improve the relationship between man and machine. We make
powerful, integrated technology that is intuitive to operators, so they can work smarter not harder.” Greensea’s turnkey
solution for Schmidt will provide integrated data, sonar and video in a fully automated environment.
Greensea's technology has been tested and proven on numerous vehicles including large scientific vehicles such as NOAA's
Deep Discoverer. Their product designs offer incredible stability because they all use openSEA, the company's patentpending software system anchored by a core library. The library provides native support for thousands of vehicle devices,
which gives stability to even the industry's most disruptive technology. Greensea's unique experience providing advanced
control systems for work class ROVs complements SOI's commitment to using advanced science and technology
in the pursuit of oceanographic knowledge, research and discovery.
About Greensea Systems, Inc.
Greensea develops integrated navigation, autopilots, and smart automation for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles. Since
opening in Richmond, Vermont in 2006, the company has successfully installed systems on over 400 vehicles, including
high-profile ROVs such as NOAA's deepwater vehicle, Deep Discoverer (D2), and provides software solutions to numerous
Original Equipment Manufacturers. Greensea now offers a commercially available workspace based on the powerful
openSEA core technology that can optimize any size vehicle. To learn more, visit greenseainc.com, find us on Facebook, or
give us a call at 802-434-6080.
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About Schmidt Ocean Institute
Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) is a U.S. non-profit private operating foundation (www.schmidtocean.org) established in
March 2009 to advance the frontiers of global marine research by providing state of the art operational, technological, and
informational support to the pioneering ocean science and technology development projects at sea and catalyze open sharing
of information about the oceans. SOI brings together science and state-of-the-art technology to achieve lasting results in
ocean research, catalyze open sharing of information, and to communicate the resulting knowledge to audiences around the
world. The Institute is devoted to the inspirational vision of our Founders that the advancement of technology and open
sharing of information will remain crucial to expanding understanding of the world's oceans.
Contact:
Mary E. Brown
Communications Manager
Greensea Systems, Inc.
1-802-434-6080
[email protected]
greenseainc.com
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