March 2007 - DVRi support HD SDI Kongsberg Camera

NETmc Marine, the developers of digital video recording equipment for the diving and ROV market, has interfaced the Kongsberg OE14-500/501 HDTV digital video camera with its DVR Inspector model. The upgraded DVR Inspector accepts an SDI video signal from the camera, which is also available on the “HD SDI video out” connector and encodes it to an MPEG2 file that can then be played on a PC via its own monitor or can be output to an HDMI monitor, if the computer has that functionality.

See Kongsberg / NETmc Marine system demo at Oceantbusiness 2007 in Southampton - stand 46

January 2007 - DVRi gets SDI input

Following sucessfull trials with the latest range of Kongsberg digital cameras and our latest encoder hardware cards and options, NETmc Marine are now offering an SDI input option to their very popular DVRi product range

Australian company are the latest to join up to the NETmc Marine integrators forum. They have used the SDK to allow their Inspection Manager software to control the DVRi products. This was immediately and sucessfully put to work on Maersk Oils North Sea 2006 inspection program.

Technip take delivery of 3 networked DVRi units for permanent install on the CSO Alliance DSV. Used for both ROV and Diver video recording - the units are connected to a new storage and oracle server which was designed and built by Technip IT. The system will form the basis for all project video recording - and will be equipped for the fast mob of 3rd party inspection software - e.g. Coabis.

Subsea 7 has placed an order with NETmc Marine for the supply and installation of 7 DVR Inspectors and 5 NAS onboard the Fennica. The purchase is in support of the Shell inspection programme that Subsea 7 will be performing from the Fennica during 2006. The equipment will be delivered and installed early in May 2006 and be interfaced to the Aker Kvaerner Coabis integrity management software package that Shell has been using for some years. The NAS will be used to store all the video acquired and also for file backup which will be managed by a stand alone PC also purchased from NETmc Marine. 3 mini NAS were also part of the order and these will be used to transfer the data from the vessel to the beach at each crew change. The set up on the Fennica will be a copy of the set up on the Viking which was mobilised with a similar, though smaller, spread of NETmc Marine equipment at the beginning of April for work in the West of Shetland field for BP.

Existing and new Pisys customers can now benefit from a completely integrated pipeline inspection and review environment - with Digital video now being linked with the data gathering, eventing, cross profiles etc....

One Pisys customer said.. "This is just what we've been looking for - our staff are already familiar with the Pisys software - now with high quaility DV review built in, theres no need for us to buy other software which some DV ventors are tring to push down our throats."

Following the sucessful integration of the NETmc toolkit into their structural insepction package Scope, Pisys hope that the changes to Xpans will have a similar impact in the pipeline insepction market.

Ecobyte Ltd gets rave reviews in Septembers issue of PC Pro magazine.

On behalf on all at NETmc Marine, we'd like to congratulate Ecobyte on this achievement - and wish them continued success with their new NAS16SX and NAS24SX product ranges.

Neil Davidson from Ecobyte said ... " we're very pleased with the review and hope this brings the product range to the attention of a much wider audience. NETmc Marine were one of the first integrators to champion the products and we are very grateful for their feedback and expertise. The Ecobyte storage solutions are one of the few products which have been proven to survive harsh environment operation usage which sustaining high data rates - such as those used during digital video operations.

NETmc Marine LTD are pleased to announce that EIVA A/S, of Aarhus Denmark, has agreed to embark on the integration of the NETmc Marine’s digital video equipment with EIVA’s survey software packages.

The integration will allow full control and management over NETmc Marines flagship DVR Pro series of data recorders from EIVA’s NaviPac and NaviScan software packages. This will make the EIVA range of software the only package that can provide integrated navigation and full ROV sensor integration available in the one database.

A spokesman for EIVA said, “More and more of our clients are asking us what we can provide for the acquisition and storage of digital video. We have looked at the market and believe that adding up to 3 more PCs to a survey spread is both cumbersome and a costly solution. We firmly believe that the integration to specialist DV manufacturers hardware will allow EIVA to treat DV as we treat any other ROV sensor and will allow us to move with the market as new products become available.”

EIVA’s NaviPac and associated software packages are used by a number of the world’s largest survey and ROV companies including Stolts Offshore, C&C Technologies, Geoconsult, Deep Ocean and Andrews Survey. The range of software includes survey packages for multibeam data acquisition, bathymetric surveying and ROV pipeline survey and inspection operations.

John Kinmond of NETmc Marine said, “We are very pleased that EIVA A/S have decided to add the NETmc Marine Pro to the list of industry standard survey equipment to which they can integrate. NETmc Marine believes that Digital Video and Software writing, for the offshore market, are two distinct specialist disciplines and that other combined products cannot offer the quality of video data provided by high end digital video encoding equipment.”

NETmc Marine has already penetrated the Underwater Inspection market with their single channel DVR Inspector. Shell U.K., B.P. Indonesia, Hess, Maersk, Rovtech and Subsea 7 have all used the DVR Inspector as part of their ROV structural inspection program; several are using the interface to the Coabis Version 9.0 Integrity Management Package from Aker, which allows full control of the DVR Inspector and allows the embedding of DV in to the Coabis anomaly report.

Release dates for the EIVA integration is due in Q3 2005, however the NETmc Marine range of equipment will be on display at the Subsea UK conference and exhibition at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre on 3rd February 2005.

For contact details visit www.netmcmarine.co.uk or www.eiva.dk.