Product Overview

We have four pre-configured ecoSUB-Hydrocarbon Sniffer series vehicles, u5 Hydrocarbon Sniffer Lite, m5 Hydrocarbon Sniffer Lite, m5 Hydrocarbon Sniffer and m5 Hydrocarbon Sniffer+.  We provide pre-configured options for convenience only, ecoSUB users can define the payloads for any vehicle and make changes to the options below.  We are happy to provide integration work packages for new payloads as long as they meet sensible requirement for size, weight and power consumption.  

Our Hydrocarbon Sniffer series of ecoSUB AUVs are focused on providing detection and measurement of crude oil in water, principally to provide the offshore oil and gas community with low cost solutions for rapid and targeted data collection.  These vehicles are ideal for emergency response incidents where rapid environmental assessment and oil plume tracking is required.  Multiple ecoSUB-Hydrocarbon Sniffer AUVs can provide wide spatial resolution and timely data collection to inform decision makers. 

Standard payload:

  • Valeport single channel Hyperion Fluorimeter (Oil in Water) 
  • Valeport VA500 OEM Altimeter
  • Valeport Fast response temperature sensor


​​Optional:

  • Nano-modem
  • ​Water Linked DVL A-50

Our ecoSUBm5-Hydrocarbon Sniffer Lite is a very low cost solution for hydrocarbon detection and measurement, offering an easy to use AUV platform with single channel fluorometer tuned for crude oil.  

The altimeter provides bottom avoidance capability and also can be used with seabed tracking behaviours to enable the vehicle to fly at a set distance above the seabed.

ecoSUBm5-Hydrocarbon Sniffer Lite