The future of aquaculture is here, and it's in motion. Tidal's autonomous winch system is transforming how fish farmers operate, offering unparalleled efficiency, flexibility, and insight into underwater environments.
Traditional winch systems are manual, and move only in one single dimension, moving up and down while at a set horizontal position in the pen. Tidal’s intelligent winch system seamlessly integrates with our comprehensive robotic underwater camera system, providing a streamlined solution for monitoring and managing aquaculture operations and providing AI-powered insights via smart camera systems.
Here's how Tidal's autonomous winch system gives you the edge in both day-to-day operations and in delivering the best smart camera insights possible:
- Unmatched maneuverability with one click navigation: Navigate complex underwater environments with ease. With the ability to move both horizontally and vertically, our winch system ensures you have a more comprehensive view of the entire pen. With Tidal’s system, the users simply click where they want the camera to go on a diagram and the camera automatically travels to that location, with the ability to save preset locations in the pen.
- All-in-one monitoring: Go beyond basic observation. Our integrated winch system empowers farmers to enable Tidal’s smart cameras to detect pellets, track feeding behavior, monitor fish growth, fish welfare, and lice levels. In addition, they can also easily position the camera to inspect the net and mort zone all from a single, unified platform.
- Ultimate Accuracy: Did you know that the average weight and health of fish, as well as the average lice levels can vary at different depths within a pen? Tidal’s smart winch helps the camera automatically patrol various sections of the pen to ensure that the system can get tens of thousands of fish observations from varying depths, rather than at one set point. This leads to accurate results that users can trust with confidence.
- Flexibility for evolving fish and seasons: The schooling behavior of the fish often changes seasonally, reducing the number of observations, which can negatively impact the reliability of AI camera systems. Tidal’s autonomous patrol patterns can be adjusted seasonally and throughout the growth cycle to match fish behavior and location within the pen. With Tidal software, farmers can see trends regarding the number of daily fish observations and receive alerts when observations are low, providing an opportunity to assess if it may be time to change patrols.
- Control and monitor your underwater operations from anywhere. Tidal users can not only control the camera position with the winch via manual jog switches, but our intuitive user interface puts you in command. The application provides real-time information at your fingertips, ranging from winch-powered camera movement and precise camera position to alerts about potential issues and actions needed to resolve them.
- Safe for the harshest conditions: Engineered to withstand the toughest marine environments, our system can survive extreme temperatures, resist corrosion, and stand strong as powerful currents pull at the camera attached to the winch. The autonomous winch has built-in safety zone awareness, ensuring that it does not come too close to nets. Tidal winch systems have cumulatively 3 million hours of operation in the field. As the industry's first NS 9415 certified AI system, you can deploy the autonomous winch with confidence, knowing it's built to last.
Ready to dive deeper into the future of aquaculture?
Visit our website at tidalx.ai or reach out to us to learn more about Tidal's autonomous winch system and discover how it can level up your fish farming operations.