Marine autonomy and USV electronics
Sealed enclosures, salt, condensation and a sensor payload that keeps growing. Marine autonomy is a thermal and bandwidth problem before it is a compute problem.
Evidence
What we can substantiate
Everything below is work we have actually done, described at a level that respects the client’s confidentiality. If you need detail, ask under NDA.
- Edge-compute architecture Three ranked options with bandwidth and power budgets
- AIS integration Marine traffic awareness alongside other mast-mounted radiators
- Precision positioning GNSS with RTK for autonomy-grade accuracy
- Sensor screening Ranging and imaging sensors screened on ingress rating, interface and availability
- Sealed thermal design Fanless enclosures that survive still air on a hot day
Common questions
Straight answers
What breaks first in a marine enclosure?
Thermal, then connectors. A sealed box has no convection path, so a processor rated for 25 °C ambient is running far hotter than the datasheet implies. Connectors follow: salt and condensation attack anything that is not properly sealed and shield-terminated. Both are architecture-stage decisions, not layout-stage ones.
How do you size compute for an autonomy payload?
By inventorying every sensor — data rate, interface, latency requirement, duty cycle — and producing an aggregate bandwidth figure, plus a figure for what the customer wants to add in two years. TOPS numbers tell you nothing about whether the camera pipeline fits.
Got a board to design — or one that won’t boot?
You talk to the engineer who would do the work. Reply within one business day, and we’ll sign your NDA before you go into detail.