Features

Can be used to track any asset on the vessel including the titanium canisters

Record data such as time of deployment and recovery and date of repair

Rugged, unobtrusive antennas

Data compatible with Spectra navigation systems

Brochure

Geophysical Systems

Sonardyne’s Streamer Asset Tracking System (SATS) uses the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags already found in many seismic streamers to automatically record the serial number of each section as it passes onto and off the vessel.

The system has been designed to increase the efficiency of deployment and recovery operations by ensuring that crews have up-to the minute information about the status of each streamer section.

As complete vessel fleets and also on-shore repair and storage facilities become equipped with RFID technology, it will become possible to achieve even greater use of streamer sections and associated equipment through improved knowledge of their whereabouts at all times.

The RFID equipment is installed on the fairleads that handle the streamers as they are deployed over the stern of the vessel.

The small, completely non-intrusive RFID antennas have been specifically designed so that they can be built directly into the fairlead. As each tag, fitted into the two end terminations of each separate streamer section, passes through the fairlead, the antenna energises the tag causing it to respond with the unique serial number of the section.

The serial numbers are then recorded in a database and associated with other relevant information such as position, time, manufacturer and condition status. In addition to asset tracking of streamer sections, any other in-water device can be tagged including acoustic positioning devices, depth birds, canisters and floats.