The global maritime defence sector faces constant challenges in maintaining operational readiness and safeguarding national security. With rapidly evolving threats and the need for enhanced sovereign capabilities, subsea technological innovation plays a critical role.

One of the key challenges is ensuring the reliability and real-time performance of systems under extreme conditions, including underwater acoustic communications, and remote surveillance. All our portfolio companies are at the forefront of addressing these challenges with commercial-off-the-shelf solutions (COTS) delivered at pace.

Gabler provides hoistable masts, control actuators, communications and now, torpedo-tube launched USVs that make submarines smarter, crews safer and the seas more secure. Develogic’s expertise in secure underwater wireless communications allows seafloor sensor networks to autonomously monitor and detect threats to critical national infrastructure.

Power for these networks comes from SubCtech. Their innovations in subsea batteries and power storage enable seabed nodes to be deployed for years at a time, and autonomous underwater vehicles to conduct long endurance surveillance and survey missions.

Making sense of the underwater data collected by the group’s naval customer is big data specialists, north.io. Since 2011, their data processing engine enables end-users to turn raw data into actional insights – collaboratively, automated and at scale.

The integration of COTS and MOTS solutions and cutting-edge technologies enables our brands to offer cost-effective, robust, and adaptable systems to enhance national security in an increasingly complex global landscape.

In the offshore oil and gas and renewables sector, time pressures and commercial competitiveness make it imperative to maintain safe, efficient and sustainable marine operations.

Our portfolio companies help address these challenges with groundbreaking technologies available to support every phase of an offshore field development, from initial site characterisation to subsea asset integrity monitoring. Through increased use of autonomy, we’re reducing the need for human intervention in hazardous offshore environments, minimising risks to personnel and ensuring operational efficiency.

Develogic offers autonomous data sensing and real-time monitoring solutions that allow offshore operators to survey, monitor and detect issues including early, minimising costly downtime and operational risks. Their robust, wireless acoustic communication know-how is a core capability, allowing sensor data to be gathered, logged and on-demand, securely transferred to resident AUVs and ROVs or, up to the surface to USVs loitering in the field or gateway communication buoys.

Planning, developing, and operating wind farms demands clean, accessible, and up-to-date geodata. north.io help developers optimise workflows from survey to delivery, ensuring data is fit for engineering and environmental use. They also assist survey firms looking to improve data deliverable quality, shorten turnaround times, or streamline their internal processing workflows.

SubCtech’s subsea power solutions, critical for powering uncrewed vehicles and offshore infrastructure, ensuring sustainable energy production with minimal environmental disruption

Conducting scientific research on our blue planet is one of the most data-intensive and technically demanding fields. Users face significant challenges in collecting, storing, delivering, and analysing marine data gathered from the littoral zone down to depths of 12,000 metres.

The difficulty of real-time data analysis, coupled with the complexity of remote sensing in the open ocean, requires highly specialised tools, systems and experience. Capabilities that Develogic, SubCtech and north.io have been delivering to leading institutes, universities and national science organisations around the world.

Develogic enhances ocean research through its autonomous in-situ systems allows sustained observations over months and indeed years. These systems, which include solutions for detecting tsunami waves and monitoring carbon capture and storage sites, increase scientific understanding while also lowering operational costs and risks to personnel going to sea.

SubCtech specialises in remote sensing, real-time data collection, and underwater power for sensors and vehicles, enabling researchers to explore and monitor marine environments with unprecedented precision and endurance. Their solutions, which include vessel-mounted FerryBoxes, providing critical insights into ocean ecosystems, geological processes, and climate research.

north.io’s advanced big data capabilities empower ocean researchers by seamlessly integrating, processing, and visualising vast marine datasets – enabling faster insights, improved collaboration, and data-driven decisions to better understand, protect, and sustainably manage our ocean environments.

By advancing the capabilities of ocean exploration, Gabler Group’s portfolio companies are helping push the boundaries of scientific discovery in marine and environmental research.