Hydromea has announced a groundbreaking achievement in subsea technology, made together with Equinor: the world’s first demonstration of real-time, high-bandwidth wireless data transmission from the ocean floor directly to the cloud. This milestone marks a pivotal advancement in subsea asset monitoring and the digitalization of the offshore energy sector.

A Leap Forward in Subsea Data Connectivity

In a pioneering collaboration, Hydromea’s SWiG-ready LUMA™ Free-Space Optical (FSO) devices successfully transmitted data from the seabed to Equinor’s cloud infrastructure using Equinor’s proprietary DEEPNET network. This is the first known instance where a high volume of data collected at the bottom of the ocean can be streamed wirelessly in real time through a LUMA WLAN hotspot, enabling immediate access for asset integrity engineers and Underwater Intervention Drone (UID) pilots.…