Electrical Generation

Services to Electrical Generation Authorities

Micro ROV Services can provide inspection services to hydro, wave and tidal power generation companies or authorities that will:

• Reduce safety exposure
• Reduce costs
• Prevent supply disruptions
• Help facilitate continuous power generation
• Provide full detailed video documentation
• Maintain the clients positive public perception

VideoRay ROVs have proven themselves as one of the easiest, cost effective, and safe solutions for hydro structure inspections. The compact and portable system can easily be deployed and piloted by a single operator while capturing high resolution colour video for your documentation needs.

The submersible can easily be raised and lowered over long spans without the stress involved in deploying other heavier observation ROVs. Quality and power are not lost as the efficient GTO thrusters can pull long lengths of small diameter tether through small diameter pipes or inlets.

Getting into tight spaces or culverts is no problem as the maximum diameter of the ROV is no more than 27 cm (11 inches). This ROV can and will go places few other ROVs can access and certainly divers cannot.

Engineers and security personnel will gain valuable insight into the structure while noticing immediate payback in safety and cost from using divers or other larger ROV systems.

The Videoray Micro ROV

Weighing in at only 4.8 kgs (10.6 lbs) and being only 36 cm (14.2") long and 27 cm (11") wide the Pro-4 is small, light and easily deployed. In fact it is literally "throw it in the water. At only 21cm (8.5") high it can fit easily into most submerged pipelines, intakes or outfalls and spaces which are unreachable by a diver.

Small but powerful the Videoray Pro-4 can travel at 4.2 knots, see with the high resolution TV quality camera under the bright illumination of two Halogen lights. If the water is murky, there is the Blue View sonar sweeping the area and showing in sharp relief what’s ahead.

Found something? if it's small enough the manipulator can pick it up, if not the smart tether allows us to position it for later recovery by divers.

Want to measure or test something? the range of accessories allows on the spot testing of cathodic protection, determine metal thickness, detect radiation, sample water quality, and take measurements with a laser.

The ROV is a boon to the underwater world – for photographers, scientists, environmentalists, search and rescue, law enforcement, customs and excise, dam inspections, tank inspections, commercial and offshore oil and gas installation and monitoring, fisheries, recreational divers, hull inspections for yachties and commercial shipping, inspection of wharves, piers, moorings and harbour facilities and many more uses which are being discovered daily.