Overview

Echoscope PIPE NANO Gen Series^® is our AI-ready, ultra-compact family of real-time 3D volumetric imaging and perception sonars — purpose-built for the next generation of underwater vehicles, diver-wearable systems, and robotic platforms. Equipped with AI-enabled perception and autonomy capabilities, it converts real-time 3D acoustic data into navigational understanding and intelligent system response, delivering bulletproof performance and exceptional underwater spatial awareness in zero-visibility conditions. The result is greater operator confidence, enhanced efficiency and assured mission effectiveness in the most challenging subsea environments.

Just a shade bigger than a smartphone, the NANO Gen Series delivers the same uncompromising real-time 3D data as our market-leading Echoscope PIPE^® sonars, but offers a much more easily deployed and cost-effective solution. It significantly enhances subsea robotic operations with its high-resolution inspection, real-time seabed mapping, and continuous monitoring capabilities —transforming underwater mission effectiveness across a wide range of applications.

When monitoring underwater activity, even when the target and the NANO are moving independently of each other, its exceptionally high ping rate ensures that the 3D imagery remains clear and accurate, giving an instant three-dimensional understanding of the underwater environment during dynamic operations. Viewing the subsea scene in real-time using patented 3D rendering techniques allows for immediate decision making during underwater positioning projects, while maintaining a measurable dataset for mapping purposes.

The new NANO Gen Series can process millions of data points per ping provide a continuously updated point cloud data and detailed imagery, utilizing the powerful PIPE Processing Engine to optimize the process through automation of the data acquisition parameters, and delivering in real time “multiple and different” 4D data sets to serve the different users of the survey operations. Different and independent data captures with varying acoustic parameters such as frequency, range, field of view, pulse length, TVG, and alternative beamforming modes can be generated simultaneously using the PIPE Engine’s Sequencer technology.

Echoscope PIPE NANO Gen Series^® users can also benefit from our Sequencer technology, which allows them to use a single device for multiple purposes simultaneously. Sequencer allows you to configure multiple sets of acoustic parameters and processing steps, which will be run concurrently and provide separate data streams that can be used for different purposes. Echoscope PIPE^® can make full use of Sequencer’s capabilities, allowing the user to collect ultrawide-angle seabed data while also gathering tightly focussed high-frequency data on a specific area of interest.

Echoscope PIPE^® NANO Gen Series Features

The Echoscope PIPE^® NANO Gen Series is designed on the back of the state-of-the-art Echoscope PIPE^® sonar technology and inherits many of the advanced capabilities delivered by this platform. At the core of the PIPE^®(Parallel Intelligent Processing Engine) system’s capability is the capacity to store the Full Time Series data acquired by the sonar array, and process it multiple times, and in multiple ways, either online in real-time or by offline reprocessing. This capability also gives unprecedented access to every value in the output dataset – more than 81 million points per ping.

Key Features of Echoscope PIPE^® NANO Gen Series

• Angular resolution of less than 0.8° @ 920kHz
• Range resolution of 10mm (0.4”)
• Dual Frequency 500kHz and 840kHz
• User selectable Frequency operation 500kHz (475-550kHz) and 840kHz (735-920kHz)
• User selectable field of view up to 54° x 54° @420KHz
• Image update rate up to 50 Hz (range dependent)
• Imaging range of 0.1 m – 75 m @ 500kHz
• Power range 24 – 48 VDC
• Power consumption 2A @ 48VDC
• Weight in water 4.6kg (10lbs)
• Ultra-compact form factor
• Depth rated 250m, 600m and 3000m