oPodTM Mini

Australia’s first self-powered data buoy—built to give you the ocean insights you wish you had yesterday.

Know what’s coming before it hits your site, reduce losses, and make faster, smarter decisions with real-time and predictive data tailored to your operation.

It’s small. It’s smart. It’s self‑powered.

A compact, ~30 kg buoy that delivers live ocean intelligence and predicts what’s coming — for aquaculture, desalination, reef restoration, and marine protection. Solar-powered. Deployable by two people and a dinghy.

Designed for cost-efficient swarming, the oPod™ Mini lets you scale coverage to the size of your site — from just a couple of units to a small cluster — providing the actionable insights teams need while creating local jobs in deployment, servicing, and data operations.

Bring your ocean online.

Series 1 now available. Series 2 pictured, coming soon.

The ocean at your fingertips

From single deployments to full coastline networks, scale confidently and monitor with continuity. Streamlined dashboards and seamless archiving give you uninterrupted access.

Ready for Anywhere

The oPod Mini™ is designed for CAT 5 storms. Light enough for two‑person deployment, tough enough for remote, rapid, and swarm-deployable, multi‑unit missions.

Monitoring. Made Simple

Solar charging and intelligent power management ensure round-the-clock, autonomous operation with no external infrastructure.

The oPod Mini™ delivers high-frequency, site-specific data to places that have never had continuous visibility before.

Ocean data you can bank on

Each oPod Mini™ acts as a data node. Combine a few (or many) for swarm-level intelligence to deliver reliable, continuous ocean data, whatever your mission.

Bring Your Ocean Online

The oPod Mini™ delivers high-frequency, site-specific data to places that have never had continuous visibility before.

Use cases include:

  • Harmful algal bloom (HAB) detection and forecasting
  • Thermal stress detection (marine heatwaves)
  • pH and ocean acidification monitoring
  • Dissolved Oxygen (DO) crash alerts
  • Coral stress forecasting
  • Habitat change mapping
  • Fish farm health management
  • Feed and nutrient load tracking
  • Acoustic monitoring for coral and marine mammals (coming soon)
  • Oceanographic research and climate science
  • Marine domain awareness and defense

(Gen 1 pictured)