Buffalo Automation is an autonomous navigation technology startup that provides embedded software systems for commercial vessels, recreational boats, ferries, and ports to improve safety and enable autonomous operations.
Our AutoMate product is used in:
Boats: A comprehensive navigation package for boats that provides automated collision avoidance in addition to traditional marine autopilot functionality, such as GPS waypoint following. AutoMate is designed as an OEM solution for marine brands, console kit integrators, and boat manufacturers who want to provide their customers with state-of-the-art navigation assistance and safety technology, including innovations like automatic docking, wakeboarder tracking and digital anchoring.
Drones: As an add-on option, we offer AutoMate with teleoperation and remote monitoring capabilities, which work with either an onboard mobile control station, an onshore remote console, or both.
Ferries: Autonomous electric ferries that are solar-powered and equipped with the most advanced AutoMate version, enabling fully autonomous and uncrewed operation. This is designed as an accessible and sustainable vessel for use as an urban water taxi or as a bareboat charter rental vessel, allowing those unable to afford or operate a boat to enjoy our waters with AutoMate.
ASVs: Modular Autonomous Surface Vessels that can be dismantled, customized and reassembled on demand at the deployment site, offering a versatile multi use option for civilian transportation, remote logistics, commercial survey, coast guard patrol, or military ISR and amphibious landing.
USVs: Autonomous Uncrewed Surface Vessels offering a more versatile, storable, repairable, transportable, and dual use option for commercial survey or military ISR, patrol, loitering munition, and mine clearance.
Ships: An advanced sensor system that leverages our artificial intelligence to provide maritime situational awareness and navigation decision support for commercial ships. AutoMate is an automated lookout that assists with docking and provides a highly accurate real-time draft measurement. AutoMate is a turnkey aftermarket retrofit solution for commercial vessel operators who want to increase safety, optimize cargo loading, and free up crews to focus on more critical tasks.
Please email us at contact@buffaloautomation.ai to purchase AutoMate, which is available in 3 versions:
Research projects:
Buffalo Automation prides itself on a culture of innovation reinforced by our using the Pareto principle to explore out-of-the-box use cases for our core technology. The following are some initiatives that we use 20% of our time to experiment and learn from:
Mayday: Mobile app that hosts an offline version of our image recognition AI for the public to experiment with.
Raven: Project to see how our technology applies to automotive and vice versa.
BiFrost: Project to see how our thermal analytics technologies can help fight pandemics.