Solutions

Every bearing,
every job.

Whatever the vessel is, and whatever the watch is doing, the picture is already there on every bearing, day and night.

The world’s first true 360° hybrid camera system for superyachts: thermal infrared and visible light in one.

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By vessel

Industries

Start with your vessel. The same unit, the same 360° picture. What changes is the mounting, the number of units and what the crew does with the view.

Motor yachts & superyachts

Swim platform to horizon, thermal infrared and visible light together, with nothing to point.

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Sailing yachts

Short-handed watches, rigs that shade a single position, and risks that are not all forward.

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Commercial marine

Watchkeeping visibility on every bearing, day and night, and the voyage on record.

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Cruise ships

Continuous exterior image capture on every bearing, always recording, on very large hulls.

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Naval & defence

A staring 360° EO/IR payload for crewed and uncrewed platforms, on partner surfaces.

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By job

Solutions

Start with the job. Five of them, done by the same 360° feed at the same time, because it never has to choose a bearing.

Navigation

A stronger look-out on every bearing: underway, at anchor and in port, day and night.

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Incident review

The exterior voyage record. Go back to the moment, on any bearing, weeks later.

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Security

The waterside perimeter covered on every bearing, streamed into the vessel’s VMS and recorded.

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MOB recovery

Every bearing was already being recorded. Rewind, hold contact, work the search.

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Leisure

Docking view, night eyes, deck cameras and recorder in one housing on the mast.

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Motor yachts & superyachts

The bearing you weren’t pointing at

  • A gimbal is a decision about where to look. Every time it turns to one bearing it leaves the rest of the circle unwatched: FLIR publishes an instantaneous field of view of 24° by 18° for its M-Series, which is the exact shape of that choice. Panoblu holds all 360° at once, with no moving parts.
  • A docking camera stops a few boat lengths out. A navigation thermal camera starts further away than the tender. One Panoblu unit spans both, swim platform to horizon, thermal infrared and visible light on the same frame.
  • Underway, at anchor and in port, the coverage does not change. Nothing has to be woken up and aimed first.
Panoblu IRThe thermal side, in the dark Panoblu SeaviewThe daylight 360° view The systemCamera, app, server, cloud What is PanobluThe idea in one scroll
Thermal IR Little-planet thermal view from the mast of a 57 metre motor yacht in Grand Harbour, Valletta Open this clip → From the mast of a 57 metre yacht in Grand Harbour, in thermal infrared. Drag to look anywhere in the circle.

Sailing yachts

Short-handed means the watch is intermittent by definition

  • Under sail the risks are not all forward. The gybe, the dark foredeck, a crew member in the water astern. A narrow forward camera looks after the bow and nothing else, while Panoblu keeps the whole circle, above and below the horizon, on one frame.
  • Rigs are addressed head-on. A rotating mast gets a configurable heading offset, so the view always reads bow and aft; a rig that shades one position is covered by a two-unit install (PB-SL-2) fused into a single 360° picture in the app. Every install is survey led, with a mast kit sized to the section.
  • You can see the coverage from your own spreader height before anything is ordered.
Mast mountingKits, heights and coverage Visibility viewerModel your own rig ComponentsUnits, kits and options 360° demoReal footage, in your browser
Seaview Little-planet daylight view of a sailing race finish off Malta Open this clip → A race finish off Malta, with the whole fleet in one frame at once.

Commercial marine

Watchkeeping visibility on every bearing, day and night

  • A staring 360° EO/IR payload: the visible-light array and the LWIR array capture together, every bearing at the same moment, with nothing slewing. It is a supplement and a back-up to radar and AIS, and it is read by the watch alongside them.
  • Craft with no AIS and almost no radar signature still read as warm shapes in thermal infrared. EMSA reports that around half of very serious collisions happen at night, which is the shift where a second pair of eyes is hardest to find. That figure describes the world’s fleet, not this product.
  • The voyage is on record as well. Near-miss review, crew training and the conversation with the fleet manager, the DPA and the underwriter all start from footage that was already being kept.

Naval, government and uncrewed programmes: see Naval & defence below.

COLREGS Rule 5All available means, in practice ONVIF integrationInto the VMS you already run The systemArchitecture and specifications Talk to usFleet and newbuild enquiries
Thermal IR Little-planet thermal view of a vessel alongside at night, quay and mooring lines visible Open this clip → Alongside at night: the quay, the lines and every movement around the hull, in thermal infrared.

Cruise ships

Continuous exterior capture, always recording

  • Certified systems answer the alarm. Panoblu keeps the picture that establishes what happened, where and when, on every bearing at once, in thermal infrared and visible light.
  • Very large hulls are covered by a dual install (PB-SL-2): two units fused into one 360° picture in the app, so the bridge still works with a single view.
  • US law asks passenger vessels to carry technology “capturing images of passengers or detecting passengers who have fallen overboard” (46 U.S.C. §3507). Panoblu is the continuous image-capture layer. It sits alongside certified man overboard detection systems, and it is a good companion to them rather than a substitute.
The systemCoverage, storage and recording Man overboardWhat the record gives the search ONVIF integrationFeeds into the ship’s VMS Talk to usFleet and refit enquiries
Still Little-planet 360 degree still of a transit through the Bonifacio strait, Corsica Open this still → A narrow transit in one 360° frame: cliffs, traffic and open water all held at the same instant.

Naval & defence

A staring 360° EO/IR payload

For crewed and uncrewed platforms: every bearing at once, passive and non-emitting, thermal infrared and visible light on one bearing frame.

  • Staring, not gimballed. A directed EO/IR sensor covers one bearing at a time and leaves the rest of the horizon behind it while it slews. Panoblu holds every bearing at the same moment, with no moving parts and nothing to point. It is coverage, not cognition: the picture is presented, and the operator reads it.
  • It arrives where the watch already works. One unit on the vessel LAN over a single PoE++ cable. ONVIF presents up to four virtual PTZ feeds, each day colour or LWIR, so the 360° picture lands inside the command and VMS surfaces the platform already runs. Aligned with ONVIF Profile S and tested against Agent DVR, ODM and Milestone.
  • Suited to uncrewed and lean-crewed hulls. On a USV there is nobody aboard to free a mechanism that has stopped, so a payload with nothing that slews or scans keeps its value across a long sortie. The full 360° picture streams to the shore or mothership operator, and the unit stays passive throughout.
The systemEO/IR architecture and specifications ONVIF integrationStreams, feeds and set-up Talk to usNaval and defence enquiries

Access

The naval and defence material sits on our partner surfaces: platform notes, integration detail and the reference material we do not publish openly.

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Navigation

A stronger look-out, kept by people

  • COLREGS Rule 5 asks for a proper look-out by sight and hearing and by all available means. Panoblu is one of those means. The duty stays with the master and the watch, and the system supports them at it.
  • Night navigation, close quarters and the hours at anchor are the same picture. Thermal infrared reads warm shapes in full darkness, and the all-round view holds underway, alongside and at anchor, so nothing has to be woken up and aimed at the quarter the risk came from. It shows and it records. It raises nothing on its own.
  • The human failure modes are well documented: fatigue on the small hours watch, attention narrowing onto one instrument, inexperience on an unfamiliar coast. A view that covers every bearing continuously is already there while any of those is happening.
  • RAD, the Range Awareness Display, draws live distance rings over the 360° feed in thermal and in visible light. It is a visual aid, read by the watch. Ranges are clear-air estimates and shift with mounting height, target size, sea state and visibility, so we publish them as estimates and split what can be seen from what can be recognised.
COLREGS Rule 5What the rule actually says How far it seesThe full range table, hedged Visibility viewerModel the view from your own rig FAQsThe questions crews ask first
Thermal IR Little-planet thermal timelapse of a busy anchorage through the night Open this clip → A whole night over an anchorage in thermal infrared, compressed into a few minutes.

Detection Range

See it first, in every direction

From a tanker on the horizon to a swimmer alongside, see how far Panoblu spots every target across the full 360° view, day and night, with live range from RAD.

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Incident review

The incident you can actually review

  • Every system records continuously, on every bearing, so the vessel keeps an exterior voyage record rather than a handful of clips. The onboard DVR is standard on every Panoblu, the 2 TB SSD holds around two months at full resolution, and recordings are geotagged whenever a live NMEA feed is connected.
  • A directed camera recorded the bearing someone was pointing it at. Panoblu recorded all of them. After the fact that is the entire difference, because the events of interest are rarely on the bearing anyone was watching at the time.
  • Mark the moment in the app and rewind to it, then replay the incident from whichever bearing answers the question. Near-miss reporting, a crew debrief the morning after, video evidence for insurers, management and surveyors, the security audit at refit: all of it starts from footage that was already being kept.
The systemOnboard server and storage Man overboardA replay in practice ONVIF integrationInto the VMS you already run FAQsWhat crews ask about the record
Thermal IR Little-planet thermal view from a 57 metre yacht in Grand Harbour, Valletta, with the harbour and its traffic all around Open this clip → A harbour passage in Grand Harbour, kept whole on every bearing. Scrub to any moment and look at any bearing in it, including the one nobody was watching then.

Security

Wide-area surveillance for the vessel itself

  • Ship self-surveillance: the waterside perimeter covered on every bearing at once, and recorded, so an approach from any quarter is reviewable whether or not anyone was looking that way at the time.
  • A staring 360° EO/IR payload. EO is Seaview, the visible-light array; IR is the LWIR array. Coverage 360° by 110°, up to 25 fps, 8K capture with 4K live playout, all zoom digital down to an 11° field of view. ONVIF presents up to four virtual PTZ feeds, each day colour or LWIR, over the one PoE++ cable that also powers the unit. Aligned with ONVIF Profile S and tested against Agent DVR, ODM and Milestone. To the VMS it looks like any other PTZ camera.
  • Passive and non-emitting, with no moving parts and nothing slewing over the guests’ heads. The retained record is also what a buyer’s surveyor asks for at refit.
Security walk-throughThe live demo, narrated ONVIF integrationStreams, feeds and set-up Integrator portalReference material and quoting
Thermal IR Little-planet thermal night view over Grand Harbour, Valletta, with vessels and shoreline visible in the dark Open this clip → A night watch over Grand Harbour. Every vessel, swimmer and shoreline reads clearly in total darkness.

Man overboard recovery

At the moment someone goes over, every bearing was already being recorded

  • Certified systems answer the first question: did someone go over? Panoblu helps the crew with the next two. Where are they now, and can we still see them?
  • Rewind the 360° recording to establish the moment and the bearing of loss. A person in the water reads warm against a cold sea in thermal infrared. Because the frame never turns, visual contact holds right through the recovery turn, and RAD gives the watch a range and a bearing to work the search pattern from.
  • Panoblu helps with man overboard recovery, and it is a good companion to a certified man overboard detection system: the certified system raises the alarm, Panoblu keeps the picture.
Man overboardThe full walk-through RADRange and bearing on the feed
Thermal IR Little-planet thermal view of a person in the water alongside a vessel at night Open on the casualty → Real footage of a person in the water, in thermal infrared. This link opens the view already pointed at them.

Leisure & guest experience

One system instead of four

  • The docking view, the night eyes, the deck cameras and the recorder all live in one housing on the mast. One cable up, no bridge hardware, nothing turning.
  • It also keeps the moments people came for. 16 MP stills pulled straight out of the 360° frame, the swimmers and the toys off the platform, a pod of dolphins on the bow, guests dragging the view around on their own phones.
  • Every voyage is on record, geotagged when the system is connected to NMEA, so an owner can walk back through an anchorage from anywhere. Cold-water and expedition itineraries are covered too: the housing is IP68 and rated from -20 °C to +50 °C.
Panoblu SeaviewThe daylight side, in full 360° demoTry the view yourself VideosFootage from real voyages Panoblu UltraFlagship: 128 MP photographic stills
Seaview Little-planet daylight view of swimmers in the water all around an anchored yacht Open this clip → Swimmers all round the boat, every one of them in the same frame.
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