Persistent eyes beneath the surface.

Our sensing nodes stay on the asset, on floating-wind moorings and over carbon-storage seabeds. Each one processes what it sees where it sits and sends back a reading you can act on, not hours of raw footage.

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Station depth 340 m

Status On station

Illustrative readout. The figure follows the animation above, not a deployed node. Critical functions are in lab validation; every figure on this page is a design target.

Technology

The node decides what matters before it surfaces.

01 Senses continuously Strain, pressure, current and sound, sampled around the clock.
02 Judges onboard Hours of raw signal reduce to one assessment where the node sits.
03 Surfaces a reading A few hundred bytes come up: the state of the asset.

State: Sampling
On board: 4 channels
Uplink: Idle

The states above follow this page as you scroll. They describe the intended operating cycle, not a node in the water.

Applications

One node. Two markets that need eyes underwater.

Both buy the same thing: evidence about something expensive that nobody can see, gathered without sending a vessel to look.

Floating wind

Mooring lines carry the whole turbine. The node watches tension and fatigue at the anchor, catching a failing line weeks before a survey vessel would be booked.

Target: Every mooring on a commercial floating-wind array

Carbon storage

Stored CO₂ has to be shown to stay put. The node sits over the seabed and measures for seepage continuously, the evidence a storage licence depends on.

Target: Monitoring, reporting and verification at each storage site

Why now

Three things are being built at once, and none of them can be watched.

Three funded programmes each need continuous evidence from under the water, and all three are moving now.

Floating wind
ScotWind leased roughly 28 GW, largely floating, and those projects are moving out of consenting and into construction. Floating moorings are a different inspection problem from fixed foundations, and nobody holds a dominant position in monitoring them.
Carbon storage
The Acorn project at St Fergus sits inside a multi-billion-pound commitment to CCS clusters. Its funding has been repeatedly uncertain, which is itself evidence that verification, not capture, is the unresolved part.
Ocean circulation
ARIA is running an £81 million, five-year programme on early warning for climate tipping points, including a field campaign over the Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. Its stated need is low-cost sensing for harsh ocean environments in a long-term observational network. The National Oceanography Centre holds over £11 million of it to lead parts of that work.

Programme figures are from public records as of July 2026. Aerandir is not a party to the ARIA programme and holds no award under it; it is named here as evidence of demand, not as a relationship.

Node / specification

Target, engineering prototype

Depth rating: 1,000 m
Endurance: 24 mo
Uplink: Acoustic
Per report: < 1 kB

Status

We are at the first of five stages.

Each stage has an exit criterion, so what we claim to a funder or a partner is always work that has happened rather than work that is planned.

Now Analytical and lab validation Station-keeping without GPS, sensor performance under simulated harsh-environment conditions, and the logic that turns raw readings into an asset health signal. TRL 2–3
02 Integrated prototype The validated subsystems become one functional unit and are tested as a whole. TRL 4
03 Relevant-environment testing The prototype goes in the water at a real but controlled marine site. TRL 5
04 Pilot with a partner The system runs on or alongside live floating wind, carbon storage or oceanographic monitoring. TRL 6–7
05 Operational scale-up Multi-unit deployment, first commercial contracts, manufacturing. TRL 8–9

No dates are given. The stage a technology has actually reached is evidence; a date for the next one is a guess. No patent has been filed; a landscape and freedom-to-operate review is planned once the core sensing and navigation design firms up. Aerandir is anchored at the University of Strathclyde, whose Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering and Offshore Engineering Institute work directly on floating wind hydrodynamics and structural integrity.

The case

It pays for itself at the first skipped survey.

A vessel survey has to be paid for again every time you run one. A resident node is paid for once and then runs. Over five years on a single mooring array the gap widens every quarter.

£0.00M

saved over five years on a single mooring array

0.0× lower cost

Campaign surveys £0.00M

Aerandir node £0.00M

Aerandir estimate, one floating-wind mooring array over five years. Campaign vessel and ROV mooring survey £400k, twice a year (£4.0M). Resident node system £220k installed plus £7k a month service (£0.64M). Vessel day rates and scope vary by site.

Contact

Talk to us about a deployment.

We work with floating-wind and carbon-storage operators, and with the investors backing the build. Tell us the asset and we will tell you what a node would see.