Project Droplet is a low-cost autonomous surface marine platform architecture for lake cleaning, river cleaning, environmental monitoring, marine farming, micro freight logistics, and emission-less transportation and operations. Solar compatible.
We are capable of gliding with 500 kg payloads without disturbing marine infrastructure — no underwater propeller system. Instead, we use air propellers to navigate, connected via satellite. Live trial testing underway in Coimbatore, India waters.
With the advantage of water buoyancy and overcoming the disadvantages of land and aerial travel, water drone boats are the perfect mixture to achieve zero-emission endurance missions at low to medium speeds — effective for a wide range of surface water applications.
Project Droplet is an autonomous drone boat engineered to bring edge intelligence to lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and coastal waters. It understands mission commands, autonomously navigates predefined routes, avoids obstacles, and continuously executes long-duration operations with minimal human intervention.
Our prototypes have been extensively tested in real-life situations and real-world settings — open lakes, flowing rivers, and live public waters — and trained for obstacle avoidance across changing conditions. Not lab demos. Field hours.
What Droplet monitors today: marine farming operations and environmental water quality, with the full sensor parameter list.
Where pilot deployments are planned or running, with partners, sites, and timelines.
Every hardware iteration so far — what changed between stages and why.
Who's building Droplet, and the organizations backing it — ECOICE and Fluid Analytics.
From a failing river in Pune to live trials in Coimbatore — the numbers, the ecosystem, and an open letter to the people holding the budgets.
Initiative