Joint Industry Projects
The Autonomous Operations Joint Industry Project brings operators, technology suppliers and research partners together to develop and test subsea monitoring systems that reduce reliance on vessel campaigns.
Across phases 0 to 5, the programme extends from environmental and biodiversity monitoring to subsea cable integrity, floating offshore energy and autonomous underwater inspection. Installed devices process measurements locally, with information recovered through fixed gateways or autonomous vehicles.
Phase 2: Subsea Wireless 2.0 — magnetic communications, edge processing and cloud backhaul
The Subsea Wireless 2.0 programme validated key Lattice building blocks: low-power edge processing, wireless information transfer through water and through the water-air boundary, SEM integration, UAV backhaul and Azure cloud interface.
Houston and Edinburgh demonstrations showed fatigue information transferred to Azure through UAV / LoRaWAN backhaul, with live information viewed through a QR-linked interface.
Structure fatigue monitoring, Katy Texas
Phase 3: ASEC - cable and environmental monitoring
ASEC Cable fatigue monitoring
Phase 4: AMBES - floating offshore energy
AMBES — OIS's Phase 4 programme for floating offshore energy — plans a Kincardine pilot in 2027. The system covers dynamic cable fatigue below the bend stiffener and at touchdown, mooring and structural response, corrosion, metocean, underwater noise and biodiversity. Hybrid subsea communications, a fixed gateway, topside IMMS and cloud backhaul will keep the asset digital twin and engineering models calibrated for operations planning.
AMBES Floating offshore enetrgy JIP, Kincardine
Phase 5: Stay-on-Mission - autonomous underwater operations
Stay-on-Mission is Phase 5 of the Autonomous Operations Joint Industry Project, with development and trials planned across 2026–27. The programme will qualify Lattice E-Field and its integration with an AUV, Lattice VMS, and local correction of AUV inertial navigation. Trials will also assess pass-by information exchange while the vehicle remains submerged, supporting subsea inspection, maintenance and security operations.
Operators, equipment manufacturers, engineering firms and research organisations can join ASEC, AMBES or Stay-on-Mission to influence requirements and trial objectives and access the resulting technical information.
Stay-on-Mission JIP