The system
One aircraft. Any deck. Either side of the surface.
NJORD is a custom-built multirotor for harsh maritime conditions: weather-sealed, autonomous from launch to recovery, and modular in what it carries. The aircraft stays above the surface — the winch takes the payload below it.
Built for the weather that grounds everything else.
Custom-designed to the operation it flies — the deck it leaves from, the sensor it carries, the sea state it comes home in.
- Sealed against the sea
- Spray-, rain- and weather-sealed for deck operations in rough conditions. The aircraft stays in the air — it is the payload that goes into the water.
- Rough-weather recovery
- Autonomous take-off and landing on a moving platform — a vessel rolling, pitching and under way — on RTK-GNSS centimetre positioning.
- Long flight time, low weight
- Endurance to reach the survey point and work it, in electric or hybrid variants to match the operation.
- Autonomy with a switch
- 100 % autonomous flight with the flip of a switch. Manual flights convert to pre-programmed missions in a simple planning interface.
Swap the payload, keep the aircraft.
- 01Winch — lowers sensors beneath the surface
- 02Echosounder — Kongsberg Simrad EK80 split-beam
- 03Camera — daylight spotting and inspection
- 04IR camera — thermal, day or night
- 05Cargo box — light logistics between deck and shore
Fishery
The echosounder into the sea, fifteen nautical miles out — species and size before the set.
Acoustic well monitoring
The winch lowers acoustic sensors to communicate with subsea wells — no divers, no ROV mobilisation.
Surveillance
A rugged, mobile platform with live video streamed to wherever you are, electric or hybrid.
Wind power inspection
Data above and below the waterline in one system — offshore turbines inspected without separate subsea hardware.
Programme facts
- Patents
- EP 3917826 granted · NO/DK/IS · PCT pending
- Research
- SINTEF — AGENT-AI, Horizon EU CHIPS JU
- Variants
- Electric · Hybrid
- Based
- Oslo Science Park, Norway