Technology
TRITON — a new way to monitor subsea infrastructure.
Resident on the seafloor, TRITON watches continuously and surfaces only the data that matters — no vessel mobilization, no gaps in coverage.
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Deploy
TRITON and its seabed docking station are installed at the asset in a single vessel visit. From that point the system operates from the dock — no surface support, no recurring vessel time.
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Patrol
The vehicle undocks and navigates pre-planned inspection routes along the structure, maintaining position with sensor-fused navigation (IMU, DVL, motor encoders) and using fused ranging data for wall-proximity awareness during transit.
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Detect
Onboard edge compute processes the inspection sensor stream in real time, classifying obstacles and flagging anomalies. Each detection is geotagged with the vehicle's fused position estimate.
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Return & Recharge
At mission end — or on low battery or a fault condition — TRITON homes to the dock using USBL acoustic positioning, latches, recharges, and offloads mission data over the dock link.
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Repeat
The vehicle remains resident at the dock between missions, targeting six months between major service intervals, and re-launches on schedule or on demand.
The TRITON V1 system: a seafloor-resident autonomous inspection vehicle and docking station, designed for continuous monitoring of subsea infrastructure. This page describes the system as designed; current maturity is stated below.
Status / Validation
Current stage: TRL 4 — component/subsystem validation, pre-field deployment. MVP V1 built in-house (May 2026); MVP V2 in active development, en route to the commercially deployable TRITON V1.
TRITON V1 — Design Targets
| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Depth rating | 300 m rated (operating range typically ≤100 m) |
| Docking residency | 6-month target between major service intervals |
| Per-mission endurance | Pending |
| Docking & recharge cycle time | Pending |
| Sensor, electronics & battery weight | ~34 kg (excludes chassis, housings, and structure — total vehicle weight will be higher) |
| Total vehicle weight | Pending |
| Dimensions | Pending |
| Navigation & positioning | IMU, DVL, motor encoders, GPS surface fix, USBL acoustic positioning, sound velocity profiler — sensor-fused pose estimation |
| Inspection payload | Camera, multibeam echosounder, sub-bottom profiler, cathodic-protection probe |
| Onboard compute | Edge AI (mission management, obstacle classification, anomaly detection) |
| Communications | Fully autonomous during missions — no tether, no surface link. Data offload and recharge via short-range link at the dock; acoustic command channel on the roadmap. |
TRITON V1 is in active development. Confirmed values replace targets as validation progresses; “Pending” marks parameters we won't publish until measured.
Autonomy
Validation status
Scripted inspection missions, vision-based defect detection, collision avoidance, and geofencing have been validated in simulation. Hardware validation is progressing through the MVP V2 build now underway, with pool-scale and open-water trials to follow on the roadmap below.
What an Operator Receives
GPS-tagged anomaly location
Every flagged anomaly is delivered with its georeferenced position on the asset, so follow-up crews go straight to the finding.
Supporting imagery
Visual evidence for each finding, with before/after comparison where prior-mission data exists for the same location.
Structured summary
A condition report formatted for hand-off to the customer's own engineering or asset-integrity team for review and sign-off.
Safety & Fault Handling
Built for unattended operation
An always-on fault-supervision layer independently monitors for leaks, collisions, and loss of communications, and autonomously safes the vehicle and returns it to dock with data preserved onboard — enabling unattended resident operation.
Traction & Roadmap
MVP V1 — built in-house
First full prototype designed and assembled in-house, validating the core vehicle architecture at component and subsystem level.
MVP V2 — in active development
Second-generation prototype in build, carrying subsystem validation toward open-water readiness.
Open-water testing
Field trials of the integrated system, from pool scale to open water — the gate to the commercially deployable TRITON V1.
TRITON V1 — commercial system
The resident inspection system described on this page, deployed at customer assets.
Draper University
Invited to attend the Spring 2026 Draper University cohort.
Market discovery
Structured discovery underway across the offshore wind and oil & gas buying chain.
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The TRITON one-pager combines the specification table, the operating cycle, and a one-line traction summary in a single PDF.
We're selecting 2–3 early partners to shape TRITON's validation program.