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Survey, remove, install, monitor, maintain.
Turning your renewable energy ambitions into reality.
With five decades of offshore energy expertise, we’re your trusted partner in transitioning to renewable energy technologies. Our comprehensive solutions span wind, wave, tidal, and floating solar technologies, delivering innovative approaches to your environmental challenges.
We provide cutting-edge subsea technologies that reduce complexity and mitigate risks throughout your project lifecycle. From environmental impact assessments to construction, operations, and maintenance, our advanced sensing, acoustic, and data analytics solutions enable you to deploy offshore renewable energy more efficiently and sustainably.
Our technology empowers you to monitor seabed conditions, protect critical infrastructure, and optimise offshore operations. We offer versatile solutions for survey, removal, installation, and maintenance—supporting everything from UXO clearance to wind farm monitoring with autonomous sensor networks and real-time data analytics.
Leveraging our extensive maritime engineering experience, we help you extend your operational capabilities, reduce downtime and enable remote offshore support.
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Read more- Autonomous underwater vehicles
- Environmental surveys
- R&D, foundations and moorings
- Site survey and characterisation
- Mine counter measures
- Uncrewed surface vehicles
- Dynamic positioning reference
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are becoming more useful, reliable, and capable. However, one size doesn’t fit all, so that’s why our subsea technologies have been designed to be compatible with AUVs of all sizes and capabilities, from micro to hybrid to resident.
What our tech can do for you
• 9,000 bps – fast and robust acoustic communications performance
• OEM – INS, DVLs and USBLs for any AUV or USV platform
• Swarms – surface-to-AUV and AUV-to-AUV comms supported
• 11 km – Reliably track and communicate to the deepest parts of the ocean
Environmental surveys
Track your divers, stream your ADCP data, navigate your ROV, deploy and retrieve your sensor packages. Our environmental survey toolbox is equipped with the solutions you need to get your project completed on time and on budget.
What our tech can do for you
• 10 years – long-term unattended deployment and monitoring of the seabed
• Sensors – flexible system architecture that talks to your sensors
• Release – integrated acoustic releases to speed up recovering your instruments
• USV – support your move to safer, green, cheaper survey operations
R&D, foundations and moorings
In-situ structural monitoring exists to ensure the safe operation of your offshore wind farm. We have all the tools you need to deliver accurate, timely and meaningful condition and status insights to maintain your site integrity and reliability.
What our tech can do for you
• Insights – we deliver the answers to your integrity questions
• Safety – we help you to keep your asset online and safe
• Sensors – flexible system architecture that talks to your sensors
• 5 – typical deployment life of our sensors in years between servicing
Site survey and characterisation
Sonardyne technology has underpinned survey operations in the offshore energy sector for over five decades. Our solutions and expertise are now being put to work within the renewables sector, delivering your next generation of low cost and sustainable energy projects.
What our tech can do for you
• Coverage – survey more ground, with less data gaps
• USVs – support your move to safer, green, cheaper survey operations
• 230 m – achievable bottom lock with SPRINT-Nav
• GNSS – carry on working even when you don’t have reliable GNSS
Mine counter measures
Looking for shorter sailing times and better percentage clearances? We deliver an autonomous and remote capability to support your mine countermeasure concept of operations from search, classify and map (SCM) through to neutralisation. Our technology is engineered for your mission.
What our tech can do for you
• Payload – INS, DVL, imaging, tracking and comms technology for your mission
• 200 m – swath each side of your UUV for pixel-perfect seabed imaging
• 230 m – achievable bottom lock for shallow water missions
• USV to UUV – unmanned tracking and comms between your naval assets
Uncrewed surface vehicles
USVs are the safe, green and economical way to harvest ocean data, which is why energy, defence and science users like you are increasingly moving to uncrewed operations. We can equip any of your uncrewed platforms to track, communicate and command in the underwater domain.
What our tech can do for you
• 99 – up to 99, simultaneously tracked targets below the water
• 9,000 bps – high speed comms for vehicle control and data harvesting
• Uncrewed – support real-time, over horizon operations
• 230 m – achievable bottom lock for shallow water navigation
Dynamic positioning reference
We’ve been engineering high integrity position reference systems for dynamically positioned vessels since the early 1990s. Giving you added reliability and operational savings, our solutions blend acoustic, inertial and Doppler sensors and are fully compatible with all makes DP system on the market.
What our tech can do for you
• Class 2 & 3 – add redundancy to your operations for IMO regulations
• Efficiency – highly repeatable positioning helps save fuel and emissions
• Crewed or Uncrewed – our technology is suitable for all vessels, including USVs
• Compatibility – integrates with your existing DP system
John Partridge establishes Sonardyne – a compound of ‘sonar’ and ‘dyne’ (a unit of force)
A new industry standard is born; COMPuting And Telemetering Transponder, the Compatt.
The world’s first TLP installed using Sonardyne acoustics.
Houston, Aberdeen and Singapore offices open
Dimona, our first USBL system, launches
We win the first of four Queen’s Awards.
A new purpose-built global HQ, Ocean House, opens its doors.
Tsunami detection technology goes on duty in the Bay of Bengal.
We celebrate reaching 50 and announce our ambitions of being carbon neutral by 2025.
Who are Sonardyne
Engineering the future of underwater technology for over 50 years.
We engineer, manufacture, service and support solutions that transform what’s possible in offshore energy, maritime defence and ocean science.
Through investment in people, technology and footprint, we have built one of the most capable, dynamic and responsible businesses in the marine technology space. As a vertically integrated company with everything under one roof, we – together with our trusted supply chain and strategic partners – can tackle your subsea project in ways no other solutions provider can.
