Abyss · Project Shoal
Small, Cheap Sensors That Never Stop Watching Your Farm
Abyss builds Shoal: swarms of small, low-cost underwater sensors that inspect fish farms and subsea infrastructure, continuously, not once a year.
The Problem Today
Aerodynamics Has Nothing On Hydrodynamics
Subsea inspection today means a single costly ROV, working slowly, one job at a time. Every curve, every joint of Shoal's approach is built to cut that cost: many inexpensive nodes that coordinate as a swarm and stay resident on-site instead of visiting once a year.
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A New Depth Of Precision
Underwater, there's no GPS and no radio. The trick isn't the sensor, it's making cheap nodes know where they are and work together.
Shoal's coordination layer is what lets many inexpensive nodes act like one expensive vehicle, without the GPS or radio that don't work underwater in the first place.
Discover the technologySelf-Positioning
Nodes localize relative to each other and fuse it into one geo-referenced picture.
Always-On Monitoring
The swarm lives on-site instead of visiting, so monitoring is continuous, not annual.
Technology Meets Prior Research
Self-Positioning Is What Makes Cheap Nodes Work
Meet the teamThis isn't a new problem for us. It's what our team researched before Abyss, at Shanghai Jiao Tong University:
Our own prior research in precise swarm routing through tight corridors.
Our own prior research in autonomous underwater vehicles and reinforcement-learning control.
Applied to Abyss: coordinated, self-positioning sensor swarms that need no expensive navigation suite.
Where Shoal Works
Learn About The Waters We Start In
Mediterranean sea-bream and sea-bass farms need constant eyes on net integrity, biofouling and moorings, our first deployment target. Cables, pipelines, ports and offshore energy come next, once the platform proves itself.
Read about our pilots
Pilots & Updates
First Deployments: Mediterranean, 2027
Abyss is pre-seed and pre-pilot. We haven't run a farm deployment yet, so instead of fake case studies, here's what's actually planned.
First Mediterranean Pilot
Technical Writeup: Swarm Positioning
Infrastructure Roadmap
Team
Three Engineers. Both Halves Of The Problem
Questions Worth Asking
Is Shoal a product you can buy today?
Not yet. We're pre-seed and building toward our first Mediterranean pilots in 2027. If you want to be a design partner or an early pilot site, reach out now.
How do the sensors know where they are underwater?
There's no GPS or radio underwater, so nodes position themselves relative to each other and fuse that into one geo-referenced picture. That coordination problem, not the sensor hardware itself, is the core of what we're building.
Do you sell hardware, or a monitoring service?
The plan is a service: Shoal nodes stay resident on-site and monitoring is delivered continuously, priced like a subscription rather than a one-off survey.
Why start with aquaculture instead of oil & gas or offshore wind?
Fish farms need constant, low-cost eyes on net integrity and biofouling, and the stakes of missing damage are immediate. It's the fastest path to a working, continuously-monitored deployment before we scale to larger subsea infrastructure.
How is Abyss funded right now?
Pre-seed and non-dilutive so far. We're building at DTU and SDU in Denmark ahead of Mediterranean deployment.