{
  "card_url": "https://itha.ai/c/onlineoceans.com/card.json",
  "status": "unclaimed",
  "updated_at": "2026-08-21",
  "revision": 1,
  "provenance_url": "https://itha.ai/c/onlineoceans.com/provenance.json",
  "card": {
    "icp": {
      "regions": [
        "GB"
      ],
      "use_cases": [
        "Offshore wind site monitoring",
        "Metocean (wave/wind/weather) monitoring",
        "Subsea data harvesting and AUV/asset tracking",
        "Subsea cable protection",
        "Illegal fishing monitoring",
        "Maritime domain awareness",
        "Marine mammal acoustic monitoring",
        "Ocean research as an alternative to crewed research-vessel charter"
      ],
      "industries": [
        "Offshore wind",
        "Marine research",
        "Defence and maritime security",
        "Subsea cable and pipeline operators",
        "Environmental and marine-mammal monitoring",
        "Maritime domain awareness"
      ]
    },
    "itha": "0.1",
    "proof": {
      "case_studies": [
        {
          "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/underwater-vehicle-tracking.html",
          "title": "Subsea operations: Tracking and re-tasking underwater vehicles from Scout",
          "outcome": "Tracked and re-tasked an underwater vehicle at 138 m depth."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/repmus-asw-swarm.html",
          "title": "REPMUS: a Scout swarm tracking AUVs for ASW",
          "outcome": "Multiple Scout USVs deployed as a swarm during NATO's REPMUS maritime unmanned systems exercise."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/metocean-mission.html",
          "title": "40 days offshore, carrying Sofar Ocean metocean sensors",
          "outcome": "Six weeks of unbroken wave, wind and sea-state data."
        },
        {
          "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/passive-acoustic-monitoring.html",
          "title": "Detecting whales and dolphins in real time with Hydrotwin AI",
          "outcome": "Streamed marine-mammal acoustic detections to the cloud for months at a time."
        }
      ]
    },
    "company": {
      "hq": {
        "country": "GB"
      },
      "url": "https://onlineoceans.com",
      "name": "Online Oceans",
      "domain": "onlineoceans.com",
      "same_as": [
        "https://www.linkedin.com/company/online-oceans"
      ],
      "description": "UK-based ocean robotics company that manufactures solar-electric uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) and control software for persistent ocean data collection, and operates them as a data-collection service."
    },
    "offerings": [
      {
        "id": "scout-usv",
        "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/scout-usv.html",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Scout USV",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "pricing": {
          "unit": "unit",
          "basis": "list",
          "model": "flat",
          "notes": "Starting price for base unit; final price varies by payload configuration (Adapt/Detect/Connect/Metocean/Hydrotwin).",
          "range": {
            "min": 40000
          },
          "currency": "GBP"
        },
        "summary": "Solar-electric, self-righting USV for persistent ocean data collection; Sea State 6 rated (survives 8+); Adapt, Detect, Connect, Metocean, and Hydrotwin payload variants.",
        "channels": [
          "direct"
        ],
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "usv",
            "protocols": [
              "iridium",
              "starlink"
            ],
            "spec_version": "0.1",
            "integration_required": "none"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "ocean-data-as-a-service",
        "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/ocean-data-as-a-service.html",
        "kind": "service",
        "name": "Ocean Data as a Service",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "pricing": {
          "model": "subscription",
          "notes": "Subscription or per-mission pricing; specific rates not publicly disclosed, quote required."
        },
        "summary": "Subscription or per-mission ocean data collection via company-operated Scout USVs, delivered to cloud dashboards or APIs; no customer-owned hardware required.",
        "channels": [
          "direct"
        ],
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "data_as_a_service",
            "spec_version": "0.1"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "tether-c2",
        "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/usv-ground-control-station.html",
        "kind": "software",
        "name": "Tether C2",
        "role": "manufacturer",
        "summary": "Web-based mission control platform for planning, monitoring, and swarm coordination of USVs; supports MAVLink-compatible autopilots (ArduPilot, PX4) via Iridium and Starlink satellite links.",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "software",
            "protocols": [
              "mavlink",
              "iridium",
              "starlink"
            ],
            "spec_version": "0.1"
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "tether-bridge",
        "url": "https://onlineoceans.com/usv-ground-control-station.html",
        "kind": "hardware",
        "name": "Tether Bridge",
        "role": "oem",
        "summary": "White-label command-and-control hardware/software connecting third-party vehicle autopilots to Tether via satellite link; deployable as cloud, white-label, or on-premise/air-gapped installs.",
        "extensions": {
          "robotics": {
            "category": "control_system",
            "spec_version": "0.1"
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "engagement": {
      "url": "https://onlineoceans.com",
      "methods": [
        "consultation"
      ]
    },
    "extensions": {
      "robotics": {
        "roles": [
          "robot_manufacturer",
          "software_vendor"
        ],
        "service_area": [
          "GB"
        ],
        "spec_version": "0.1"
      }
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-08-21"
  }
}