The PLOME project has tested new technologies that will allow the deployment of stations and vehicles to monitor the marine environment and provide real-time data. The experiments have been conducted along the Catalan coast at depths of up to 350 meters. The project is led by the University of Girona, with participation from the UPC, […]
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Use case: SPARUS II AUV for critical underwater infrastructure inspection
99% of the communications occurring in the world today happen through underwater fiber optic networks. There are more than 420 submarine lines in the world, totalling 1.3 million kilometers which allow us to communicate and operate in the way we do as a society. These infrastructures are equally important today as oil and gas pipelines, […]
SPARUS II AUV Alice: a life full of changes
Back in 2016, when IQUA robotics was created, University of Haifa SubSEA Engineering lab and the VISEAON Marine Imaging lab decided to acquire a Sparus II AUV. By then, the research interest and goal of the team was to work on the development of underwater marine technologies. Part of the team, led by Morel Groper, […]
IQUA robotics at Mobile World Congress
IQUA robotics (IQUA) is one of the most recently created spin off companies of the University of Girona. Founded in 2016, IQUA is devoted to the design, development, manufacture and commercialization of underwater observation technologies. This 2023, the company was invited to be part of the startup area reserved for the University of Girona in the 4YFN (4 […]
Testing our newly developed optoacoustic payload in Atlantis testbed (Portugal)
The world’s first offshore wind farm was installed at Vindeby, off the southern coast of Denmark, in 1991. At the time, few believed that this could be more than a demonstration project. Thirty years later, offshore wind power is a large-scale, mature technology that provides power to millions of people around the world. New facilities […]
PLOME, a research project to monitor marine ecosystems
Understanding the marine ecosystem is key to monitoring, evaluating, and managing its functioning. To do this, the scientific community needs data. The PLOME project will obtain it with an underwater platform that will monitor the ecosystems of the seabed for extended periods. Girona, 7th of July 2022. A scientific team led by the University of Girona (UdG) will […]
Warm up for Oceanology International 2022
At Oi London we will be doing live demos of SoundTiles software. Find us in booth B101! 🙂 IQUA robotics team will move to Oceanology International in London for a few days to show you the latest updates on the company’s current products as well as disseminating its innovation projects and developments. SoundTiles software live […]
We attend Ocean Business 2021
From the 12th to the 14th of October 2021 we finally had the chance to attend a commercial fair in post-covid times. An amazing organization, enthusiastic visitors and a long list of motivated exhibitor made the event a success, it was a very different fair, yes, but it was the first and it was great! […]
We support and participate in Jornadas CEA
Last week we had the opportunity to participate in Jornadas CEA, a Spanish event coordinated by the Auomatics Spanish Committee. The event took place in Universitat Jaume I in CastellĂł de la Plana. IQUA participated by setting up a company booth showing the latest developments on SPARUS II AUV, presenting the H2020 European Project ATLANTIS […]
SoundTiles new release supports FLS data from major brands
Last April we launched the new release of SoundTiles software for processing FLS data. Besides the already supported brands: • Sound Metrics• Norbit We now support: • Teledyne Blueview• Teledyne Reson• Blueprint Subsea• Kongsberg Maritime SoundTiles is a stand-alone software solution for automatic generation of underwater acoustic mosaics from forward-looking sonar images that was launched by IQUA robotics on July 2021. […]