Commercial Services & Operational Support

Alongside our complete USV platforms, Rumblefish delivers full-spectrum operational and engineering support. We provide contracted turnkey field operations for survey and sampling campaigns—regularly designing custom sensor packages to meet unique mission requirements. Building on that field experience, we offer full-lifecycle engineering to take specialized sensors, payloads, and autonomous systems from initial concept to active deployment on water.

1 Person
True Solo Operation
Single-person deployment, mission execution, and recovery from docks, unimproved shorelines, or vessel transoms—zero cranes required.
18 cm
Ultra-Shallow Draft
Purpose-built for lakes, rivers, and coastal shores—while engineered to push straight into mudflats, estuaries, and dynamic shoals where others ground out.
< 2 min
Staged to Mission-Ready
Power on, pre-flight, and launch into the water in under two minutes with fully calibrated autonomous hardware.

Capabilities & Commercial Offerings

1. Contracted Field Operations

Direct field mobilization of equipment and trained remote vehicle operators to execute your data collection campaigns on water.

  • End-to-End Execution: Mission planning, austere launch logistics, autonomous path execution, and QA/QC data review.
  • Restricted Water Access: Proven operations across shallow flats, dynamic tidal rivers, and active industrial harbors.
  • Standard Deliverables: Calibrated georeferenced bathymetry, raw telemetry logs, and post-mission summaries.

2. Operator & Technical Training

Operational instruction and technical training to prepare your personnel for safe, self-sufficient uncrewed platform field operations.

  • Field Operations: Solo launch/recovery methods, mission planning, and link-loss failsafe procedures.
  • Preventive Maintenance: Diagnostics, propulsion servicing, field ballast/trim tuning, and harness repair.
  • Delivery Models: Small cohorts (up to 6) hosted at our Pacific Northwest water facility or on-site at yours.

3. Custom Engineering & Autonomy

Engineering services for bespoke hardware integration, avionics retrofits, specialized payload adaptation, and autonomy workflows.

  • Sensor & Payload Integration: Custom wet-well mechanical brackets, isolated DC power, and telemetry routing.
  • Autonomy Architecture: Edge perception algorithms, target tracking, boundary surveys, and custom control scripts.
  • Payload Extraction: Engineering assessment to harvest existing client sensor payloads and re-platform them onto our hulls.

Frequently Asked Questions

Field Operations & Surveys

What lead time is required for field surveys?
Standard survey campaigns typically require two to four weeks for mission planning, logistics, and site clearance. However, for critical time-sensitive scenarios—such as natural disaster response, emergency flood monitoring, or urgent recovery efforts—we maintain rapid-deployment protocols to mobilize equipment and personnel significantly faster.
How do you handle restricted water access?
Our vessels are purpose-built for solo deployment wherever there is water access. A single operator can mobilize, pack in, and launch directly from unimproved banks, remote shorelines, docks, or small craft with zero shoreside support or crane infrastructure. For defense and expeditionary applications, the system is person-portable for low-signature staging.
What data deliverables do we receive?
Deliverables are tailored to your analytical workflows. Standard packages include raw high-rate sensor telemetry, calibrated and georeferenced point clouds or soundings, trajectory logs, and an operational quality-assurance report formatted for immediate import into GIS or hydrographic suites.

Engineering & Custom Integrations

Can you integrate proprietary hardware?
Depending on your operational requirements, we can integrate your hardware into our standard modular bays, fabricate custom mounting and interface connections, or—since we design and build our hulls in-house—engineer a custom hull tailored specifically to your payload.
Can you re-platform payloads from older craft?
Yes. For organizations with substantial investments in specialized payloads, we provide targeted consulting engagements to audit and re-platform existing hardware onto our modern autonomous drones, preserving your capital investments while upgrading vessel capabilities.