SCATTERSPHERE

Wave & Sea-State Monitoring with Scattersphere

Mapping Real-Time Sea-State.

Real-time wave monitoring, directly from your cables

Monitor sea conditions around your offshore assets with Scattersphere.

Indeximate’s wave measurement solution tracks precise surface dynamics and wave heights across your entire cable route. Indeximate’s system functions with exceptional accuracy, providing real-time sea-state data even in the harshest marine environments where traditional buoys fail or are absent.

We provide highly sensitive wave height, period and wavelength information. Threshold amplitudes for go/no go on sailings are determined through calibration against historical validated data.

Data from all measurements are stored for a full year, creating a forensic tool for deep environmental analysis rather than just a live monitoring platform.

Year long Risk Profiles from Scattersphere

Turn your cable data into actionable intelligence
Discover precise sea conditions across your entire asset network
Year-long History of Curated Metocean Metadata
Monitor Sea-States in Real-Time with Indeximate's Scattersphere Platform
Forensic Oceanographic Investigation Capabilities

What will the Scattersphere do for me?

What are the sea conditions at your asset right now?

The system analyses dynamic pressure and acoustic variations against the subsea cable to calculate exact wave
heights and ocean energy. By decoding these environmental forces, we provide detailed marine insights through
curated metocean metadata.

We track:

Precise Wave Height (calibrated against existing measurement techniques)
Wave metrics relative to specific assets (e.g., individual wind turbines)
Spatial wave height variations across 100km+ cable spans
Tidal and wave dynamics mapping
Enable forensic analysis of the wave conditions affecting your infrastructure

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Accessing Cable Intelligence

Step 1

Using a fibre that exists in your cable, we create a spatially rich, precise sensor.

Step 2

Plug in passive sensors (no need to modify the cable).

Step 3

Collect terabytes of environmental, acoustic & strain data.

Step 4

Compress & translate that into a simple, live sea-state view.

Accessing Cable Intelligence

User interaction

Constant monitoring of wave heights along your cable provides massive logistical and safety benefits, letting you
know exactly what the sea is doing across your entire infrastructure.

Unlike maintenance intensive, single point buoys and satellite imagery, Indeximate takes advantage of local aquatic pressure effects on your cable to directly measure and pinpoint wave heights around your infrastructure.

This allows operators to map exactly how wave energy interacts with their subsea assets.

Simple GUI highlights key locations where wave heights and sea-states are being tracked.

Real-Time Alerts & Precision Localisation

On 100km of cable, we split the cable into 10,000 10m segments that each act as an individual pressure and
environmental sensor. By using these, we pinpoint wave heights, swells, and localised marine impacts to specific 10m segments along the cable.

With real-time sensing, Indeximate’s bespoke algorithms find accurate wave data across vast distances. With Indeximate’s wave detection product, you optimise offshore operations and protect your infrastructure from extreme marine events.

Line plots showing the correlation between the normalised significant wave height measured from a single DAS channel and a nearby wave buoy. A relationship is immediately evident between the signals.

Dedicated Metrics

Focus on critical regions (e.g., Offshore Wind Farms)

Indeximate’s focused and precise monitoring allows you to see variations in wave heights across massive offshore sites.

For example, when planning maintenance expeditions to an offshore wind farm, Scattersphere identifies specific sectors of the wind farm experiencing lower wave heights – ensuring you don’t waste a costly transit trip.

We present the statistics for EACH cable segment separately to allow a quantitative comparison across the entire
asset layout – allowing an at-glance understanding of calm zones and high-energy trouble spots.