OceanScan-MST

OceanScan-MST designs, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative underwater systems, concentrating on autonomous vehicles and related tools for oceanographic surveys, environmental monitoring, and underwater inspection applications. Its core offering, the LAUV, provides a lightweight autonomous underwater vehicle built to be rugged, effective, and cost-effective. A single person can deploy, operate, and recover the vehicle, which suits low-logistics operations from shore, a pier, or a small boat without cranes or special tools. The LAUV uses an open architecture, letting users integrate new instruments, actuators, algorithms, behaviors, navigation options, communications modules, and payload modules, so the system adapts to different missions and to user-developed extensions. OceanScan-MST supports operation of the vehicle through Neptus, a command-and-control software framework covering mission configuration, planning, simulation, execution, and post-mission data analysis. Modularity runs through the design, with payload and navigation options built as independent modules that can be installed later or swapped out. The open system approach builds on the open LSTS toolchain from Porto University, enabling code reuse and the addition of new sensors and algorithms. Beyond the vehicle itself, the company's production work covers design, assembly of high-level systems, testing, and quality control, while mechanical parts and in-house hardware production go to outside suppliers. OceanScan-MST frames this activity as part of a broader mission to provide flexible solutions with short lead times and reduced operation and maintenance costs. It serves customers worldwide and positions its systems for practical use in harsh environments. The business therefore spans product design, system integration, manufacture, commercialization, and support for autonomous underwater systems and tools, with applications running from surveying through environmental monitoring to inspection. Short lead times, low logistics, and modular payloads together define the offering: a survey team can put a vehicle in the water from a small boat, reconfigure it with different instruments for the next task, and process the resulting data in the same software framework.