With sea levels rising and environmental threats increasing, both of which are threats of national security on our coasts, the inspection, and monitoring of our coastal assets such as harbors, sub-sea communication cables, fisheries as well as the security of our nation's ports are changing with the adoption of robotics and autonomous systems.
While AUVs’ have been in use for decades a large barrier for both the military and commercial sectors has been the enormous cost of purchasing and operating these vehicles with entry-level systems sometimes costing more than $250,000.00. Duro is looking to change this by creating durable, affordable platforms that will allow customers to accelerate their missions and goals. The same goes for real-time environmental monitoring where its current product the Duro Sonde uses LoRa communication protocol to do hyperlocal water quality monitoring in NYC.
