Idrop

iDROP a/s is a company providing a disruptive method and proprietary equipment for efficient and accurate installation of sensors on or in the seafloor. The system comprises a self-navigating drone - Oceanid™, that purely based on gravity, and ballast-shift, will self-propel itself autonomously from a drop location on the surface to a pre-plot location on the seabed. Complementary to the drop-node an automatic handling system is provided for unmanned deployment in an over-the-side basket, and subsequently recovery of nodes from the surface and safely onboard for storage. The complete system is containerised based on ISO shipment standards, and hence flexible and scalable in terms of storage, transport and operation. The Oceanid development project is softfunded by EU, Eureka and the Norwegian Research Council, with complementary industry support from several European Energy Majors.