Leading in digital video recording and inspection systems

Digital Edge Subsea continues to enhance its offering as a world leader in digital video recording and inspection systems for the subsea industry, capitalising on the growing demand for remote inspection

Digital Edge Subsea at ADIPEC

Digital Edge Subsea's busy programme of events for 2025, continues in November at ADIPEC in Abu Dhabi where we will be attending as part of the EIC UK pavilion.

Partnership with Ashtead Technology

Digital Edge Subsea is delighted to announce that following their successful acquisition of Seatronics, Ashtead Technology will continue to supply customers with our industry leading digital video recording and inspection systems.

As well as continuing to support existing customers, this partnership is already allowing Digital Edge Subsea to service more regions, with new rental stock having been delivered to Ashtead Technology's bases in Abu Dhabi and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

With access to the full range of products including 2u and 3u DVRs, as well as the existing 4u, workstation and laptop solutions, Digital Edge looks forward to working with Ashtead Technology across the globe.

Remote Inspection

The partnership between Digital Edge Subsea and Harvest Technology, the Perth, Australia- based video-streaming experts, has taken another leap forward. The ability to stream live video and serial data to the cloud, facilitating remote situational awareness for the offshore was a game changer in the subsea inspection market in 2024 and this year the solution has been enhanced with the addition of audio streaming. The solution still uses Harvest Technology’s proprietary Nodestream technology.

For 2025, Digital Edge Subsea is seeing an increase in demand for full remote inspection, whereby the inspection engineer is based onshore. Utilising Harvest Technology’s all-new Flex hardware, four HD video feeds and serial data can be streamed to shore over low bandwidth. The four HDMI outputs from the onshore Flex decoder connect directly to the Digital Edge Subsea DVR and the frame synchronised serial data from offshore can be input via the DVR’s serial ports.

With full two-way audio communication, the inspection engineer can be located onshore, recording four HD video channels, with overlay and logging raw data from offshore, as easily as if they were based on the vessel. All of this can be achieved over very low bandwidth, negating the requirement for additional low earth orbit satellite communication to be added to the spread.

This development represents a significant reduction in costs to subsea service contractors with inspection personnel and technical representatives able to work remotely, from anywhere in the world. By reducing travel requirements, the carbon footprint of offshore operations can be reduced, with the added benefit of fewer personnel working in potentially hazardous environments.