(WO) — Discussion board Vitality Applied sciences (FET) has launched a brand new distant management station designed to permit operators to run remotely operated car (ROV) programs from nearly any location.
The system operates utilizing the corporate’s ICE® Unity ROV management platform, launched in 2025, and permits operators to conduct distant subsea operations whereas monitoring system efficiency and stay knowledge streams.
The platform helps a number of capabilities, together with distant ROV operations, stay streaming of survey knowledge, and full system monitoring, together with entry to FET distant assist providers and software program updates.
The distant station may be equipped with new ROV programs or added as an improve to current programs already working on the ICE® Unity platform. The package deal consists of FET Subsea superior management chairs, Distant-Join gateway enclosures, and VisualSoft video streaming and community participant software program.
FET says the flexibility to function ROV programs remotely may assist offshore operators enhance flexibility, scale back prices and entry specialised experience whereas sustaining operational efficiency and security.
Kevin Taylor, Vice President – Operations, Subsea Applied sciences at FET, mentioned: “Innovation is essential to FET’s long-term technique, FET 2030, and this growth represents a major step ahead in how ROV operations may be delivered. By enabling full system management from any location, we’re giving our prospects larger flexibility in how they deploy personnel and handle operational prices, with out compromising efficiency or reliability.”
FET is demonstrating the distant management station throughout Oceanology 2026, the place an ROV is being piloted on the firm’s UK headquarters in Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, from a management chair situated on the convention in London, roughly 300 km (190 miles) away.
The corporate mentioned all {hardware} for the system is manufactured and delivered from its Kirkbymoorside facility and that the brand new functionality is anticipated to assist rising demand throughout offshore vitality, protection and different subsea markets.
