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Aquaculture
Get the full picture of what's going on underwater at your aquaculture facility.
Use cases
Cage and Net Inspection
Deploy Trident to inspect individual problems in a net or cage, or utilize Strider to run inspection missions regularly.
Live Video During Feedings
Deploy Trident and Strider to get a live view of on-site feedings, enabling better planning and feed deployment.
Invasive Species Inspection
Utilize Trident and Strider to monitor pens and cages for invasive species and take early action against them.
Monitor Pen & Cage Data
Deploy Strider and Spotter to monitor important water quality data in pens and cages.
Monitor Ocean Data in Region
Access the Sofar Weather API for regional weather forecasts, monitoring and data modeling.
Inexpensive Alternative to Divers
Deploy Trident for early inspections to avoid paying costly dive fees, allowing divers to be deployed at a facility only when absolutely necessary.
HARDWARE
Spotter
Spotter lets you collect ocean data where you need it and access real-time updates on the go.
Deploy With Ease
Deploy it once and control it remotely. Spotter is a complete end-to-end system. You turn it on, deploy it, and data appears in your dashboard. It’s that simple.
An End-to-end Ocean Data System
Spotter combines the hardware, software, and mobile access to give you everything you need to start collecting, viewing, and sharing real-time ocean weather data.
High-Fidelity Data
Smart use of mobile sensor technology, combined with science-based analysis methods, provides exceptional data quality.
HARDWARE
Trident
Trident enables exploring the underwater world, surveying underwater bathymetry and reefs, or inspecting equipment and installations, without the cost, complexity and risk of diving.
Capture Captivating Video
Trident's advanced color correction algorithms allow you to see underwater in all its colors. Stream live with low-latency and record in full HD simultaneously.
Easy To Pilot
Live video is streamed back to the surface over an ultra-thin kevlar-reinforced tether, then directly to your easy-to-use Trident Controller over WiFi.
DATA
Strider
Strider is an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) that combines the latest in autonomous navigation and remote controls, with complete modularity. Consistent with Sofar’s philosophy, it is designed for usability and affordability.
Portable & Easy-to-Use
Strider can be checked into commercial airlines and deployed by a single person. This reduces personnel costs, shipping costs, and enables a wide range of deployments and missions.
Real-time Control & Waypoint Setting
Control Strider remotely or simply click a point on a map to autonomously route the ASV to that location..
DATA
Weather API
A real-time, distributed weather sensor network in the Pacific Basin consisting of 150 nodes. The weather dashboard provides easy access to the buoy network Sofar’s hindcast and forecast model data.
Access Data Through a Robust API
All of our real-time sensor and model forecast data is available through our API.
Historical Data and Climatologies
Sofar’s cloud-based data infrastructure ingests and stores more than 30 years of historical surface wind, surface wave and ocean circulation data for our entire planet. And we provide on-demand climatologies anywhere
Other Uses
Environmental Monitoring
Know conditions before you go, and get real-time data from locations around the world.
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Science & Research
Our tools make ocean data more accessible to ocean researchers and communities.
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Aquaculture
Our products help aquaculture farmers know what's going on at their facilities.
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Recreation
From boat owners to surfers, our solutions can fit any recreational ocean data need.
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Custom Solutions
Our products are more than just tools —they're modular platforms to meet your ocean data needs.
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