As an innovative developer of underwater sensing technologies for the marine industry, Impact Subsea’s high-performance sensors are utilized by an extensive client base spread across the globe. Read more >>
The diverse range of sectors the company works in includes offshore energy, environmental and oceanographic research, and defense, with the company recently releasing a brand new profiling sonar ideal for many of these applications — the ISP360.
More specifically, this profiling sonar excels in underwater applications like pipeline and trench profiling, vehicle positioning within a tank, internal pipe and tank profiling, asset positioning, and bridge foundation surveying, largely thanks to its acoustic signalling technology. Find out more >>
Impact Subsea produces more than just profiling sonars — their products range from imaging sonars to software to flooded member detection systems.
In particular, the company’s imaging sonars have garnered attention for their ability to provide an ideal navigation, obstacle avoidance, and target identification solution up to 6000m for ROVs, AUVs, and underwater vehicles of any size while also being one of the most compact imaging sonars on the market.
Similarly impressive is the ISA500 range of advanced altimeters, employing cutting-edge acoustics measure with an accuracy of 1mm over very long distances. An integrated MEMS-based Attitude & Heading Reference System (AHRS) can be added for heading, pitch and roll measurement.
Impact Subsea’s AHRS product is the ISM3D, a design that combines MEMS-based accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers with a powerful sensor fusion processing system.
Like many of the company’s other products, it can be provided different housings and configurations — for the ISM3D, this could be in an acetal housing depth-rated to 1000 meters, a rugged 6000 meter-rated titanium housing, or as an OEM system.
Delving into software, Impact Subsea’s seaView is a powerful and intuitive package that provides easy data viewing, logging, calibration and configuration for all the company’s sensors.
It enables data from multiple sensors to be displayed on screen in real-time, providing an all-in-one hub for controlling complex multi-instrument operations such as ROV surveys.
To learn about Impact Subsea’s depth sensors, flooded member detection systems, or to find out more about any of the technologies touched on in this article, visit the company’s profile.
