Navantia and EOLOS Bring Unmanned Technology to Offshore Wind O&M

The two companies have signed an exclusivity agreement for the development and commercial roll-out of the technology, products and services for the Operation and Maintenance of offshore wind farms using advanced sensor technology combined with unmanned marine and aerial vehicles.

The first demonstrative tests in a real environment will start next October in the port of Ceuta, where NAVANTIA's USV Vendaval, the first unmanned surface vehicle marketed and operational in real missions in Spain, is already operating. The initiative will make it possible to combine the know-how of both companies in marine environments: NAVANTIA, a reference in the design and construction of high-tech ships and structures for offshore wind farms, and EOLOS, dedicated to the measurement and characterisation of the meteoceanic conditions of marine sites, combining a worldwide marine operations team and infrastructure with its own technology based on the FLS200 floating platform to execute turnkey projects.

”Unmanned vehicle technologies, whether marine, aerial or especially the collaborative combination of both will be key to making Offshore Wind an increasingly competitive, automated source, with fewer safety risks and more balanced with the marine and ecological environments in which it operates.”

EOLOS is a Spanish company dedicated to the measurement and characterisation of the meteoceanic conditions of marine sites at a global level for the offshore wind industry.

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