Aqualung Aquasense announced (aquanounced?)

[Umuntu]

At DEMA, I'd expect much more pointed scrutiny:

• What is the service interval?
• When will the service training be available and how long will the course be?
• How much is the service kit?
• Do I have to take my reg to the dedicated LOB charging station and recharge it every night?
• Does a regulator with a built in tank-marker lamp really qualify as a significant innovation?

Who will be able to service it ?

Dive shop techs are not electronics techs.

 

[SouthernSharktoothDiver]

@Umuntu At a guess, the electronic bit it probably modular enough to just remove and set aside, needing little service other than perhaps plugging it into a testing program and spitting out a bunch of approved numbers (much like a dive computer). From there, service as normal.

For my part, I haven't had time to watch the video yet, so I'm left wondering what does this even do? Does it just integrate your dive computer into your regset? Cause if so, I feel like that's probably a step backward from wrist mounted AI computers and those new fancy (expensive) HUD systems. If the added LED system is so very important, you could definitely build that as a screw on attachment to an HP port

And it would in fact be not a bad idea. Market it as a cheaper alternative to things like Garmin's long range signal transducer. A dive guide or parent screws a little "button" onto your HP port before you splash, and then they look at the color of the light to tell if they need to herd everybody up and surface. The premium version could even allow for you to set a reserve pressure, so it turns red at the desired turnaround time.

...Anybody here know how to file a patent? (I'm assuming the idea already exists in enough of a fashion that I couldn't patent it)

 

[iain/hsm]

Also at the CES 2025 show was the Aquasense Pro

Beatbot AquaSense® Pro: The First All-in-1 Robotic Pool Cleaner

beatbot.com

Words fail.

Beatbot Unveils the Revolutionary AI-Powered AquaSense 2 Ultra at CES 2025

Newly upgraded pool cleaning solutions and services elevate the industry standards and consumer experience to new heights.

vir.com.vn

 

[Badger7]

Also at the CES 2025 show was the Aquasense Pro

Beatbot AquaSense® Pro: The First All-in-1 Robotic Pool Cleaner

beatbot.com

Words fail.

And that version of the Aquasense has specs, prices and an order form. I prefer the Pro model, I guess I just need a swimming pool now.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Who will be able to service it ?

Dive shop techs are not electronics techs.

what happens if you flood it with salt water?

 

[rmssetc]

Aqualung Group: Scuba Diving Equipment Industry

Aqualung Group is a world leader in designing and manufacturing high-quality scuba diving gear, driven by a passion for innovation and research.

aqualung-group.com

It's a giant first stage with an integrated transmitter, it's an app, it's a pair of computers, and it's a huge cable to the second stage which apparently has some electronics in it.

I might be interested if it had integrated O2 measurement (ie., automatically set the computer for Nitrox) and CO measurement (lots of flashing alerts if CO was above a set point -- 3PPM, for example).

Include "free" replacement of gas sensors as needed during regular servicing over the first "N" (5?) years of ownership (sell it to investors as product lock-in, increased revenue from after-sales support, customer stickyness, etc).

Have the 2nd stage record stats (WOB, breathing rate, etc) to save with other dive data on the computer.

I could imagine the LEDs on the 2nd stage being used as a part of the PDC alarm (turn time/pressure, MOD, NDL) -- that would be more obvious than something flashing on a wrist-mounted computer.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

what happens if a lithium ion battery explodes underwater?
what happens if all electronic systems fail underwater, is there a manual override?
Or do you go to your manual pony setup?

 

[thomschoon]

And that version of the Aquasense has specs, prices and an order form. I prefer the Pro model, I guess I just need a swimming pool now.

It looks similar to the $500 corded version that I have been using for three years.. I tried a rechargeable last year and got tired of always having to load it to the charge platform, easier to use a corded version and leave it in the pool as it only needs the basket dumped monthly.

 

[kodiak81]

I kinda see a benefit of putting a transmitter into 1st stage if it pairs with something like Apple Watch and vacation diver gets all-in-one solution. Not sure who the target customer for this all Aqualung ecosystem would be...

 

[Ted Judah]

Wait wait wait. In the video when it mentions artificial intelligence, it's panning over the computer displaying tank pressure. That's too much of a coincidence. Do you suppose one of those 45000 hour engineers passed off the AI (air integration) specs to marketing who just assumed they meant AI (artificial intelligence) and no one bothered to have engineering fact check the video that doesn't even show the product in use?!? You'd think that might have been a good use of the 45001st hour of project time.

could be. wow.